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Harley MS 3081

Record Id:

040-002048912

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002048912

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x0001a7

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 3081

Title:

Pseudo-Augustine, Sermones ad fratres in heremo; Pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux, Vitis mystica; Bernard of Clairvaux, De consideratione; Giovanni Boccaccio, Griselda; and other texts

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-101r: Pseudo-Augustine, Sermones ad fratres in heremo.

ff. 101r-102v: De Sancta Monica matre sancti Augustini.

ff. 102r-103r: Pope Calixtus, De conversione sancti Augustini episcopi.

ff. 103r-104r: Sigebert of Gembloux, In epistola ad Macedoniam de beato Augustino.

ff. 104r-104v: 'De cronica venerabilis bede'.

ff. 104v-105r: 'Ex cronica vienensis episcopi de sancto augustino'

ff. 105r-107r: 'Ex cronica Antonini'.

f. 107r: Augustine, De elemosina.

ff. 107r-107v: Augustine, Admonicio ad silentium.

ff. 108r-152v: Pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux, Vitis mystica (here: 'Vitis vera').

ff. 152v-159r: Pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux, De septem columpnis.

ff. 159r-182r: Pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux, Colloquium et dyalogum inter Symonem Petrum et Ihesum.

ff. 182r-222v: Bernard of Clairvaux, De consideratione (here: 'Quinque libri de consideracione ad Eugenium papam').

ff. 223r-228v: Giovanni Boccaccio, Griselda.

Decoration:

Large initial in colours and gold with foliate patterns and enclosing red and green penwork. Large initial in blue with reserved designs,with foliate patterns and flowers in colours (f. 108r). Large initial in blue outlined with gold, with red penwork decoration and a green wash (f. 22r). 2 large initials in dark red with reserved designs and brown penwork decoration highlighted with red, green and occasionally yellow (ff. 153r, 160r). Large initial in dark red with gold decoration (f. 182r). Coloured initials in red, occasionally with reserved lines or designs (including a fish (f. 30v)). Large red initials with reserved designs (ff. 214r, 223r). Capitals marked in red. Some cadels in brown and red including a face (f. 234r).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002048912

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 3081 : Pseudo-Augustine, Sermones ad fratres in heremo; Pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux, Vitis mystica; Bernard of Clairvaux, De…

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[3082]/040-002048912

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1407

End Date:

1407

Date Range:

1407

Era:

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User Conditions:

Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment; with numerous stitched repairs (e.g, f. 148).

Dimensions: 290 x 205 mm (text space: 230 x 145 mm, in 2 columns).

Foliation: ff. 228 (+ 5 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end); 1 unfoliated parchment stub after f. 157; 3 after f. 222; 1 unfoliated paper pastedown on f. [iv]recto (bibliographical notes).

Collation: Indicated by catchwords; each quire has been mounted separately onto a paper guard.

Script: Gothic.

Binding: British Museum in-house: brown half leather binding with the Harleian arms gold stamped on the outside covers; remains of the previous binding (gold- and blind-tooled dark brown sprinkled leather) pasted on the inside covers; rebound on 10 September 1965.

Custodial History:

Origin:

Western Germany (Trier).

Provenance:

Made in Trier in 1407 as indicated by a colophon on f. 107r: 'Completu[m] est anno d[o]m[ini] m.ccccovii more Treverensium in anno bisextili secunda feria post sexagesimam' (see Watson, Dated and Dateable Manuscripts (1979), no. 728).

The Benedictine abbey of S. Maria ad Martyres, Trier, owned the manuscript in the 15th century: their ownership inscription on f. 228v: 'Codex claustri beata[e] Marie virginis'.

The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (b. 1661, d. 1724), 1st earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, and Edward Harley (b. 1689, d. 1741), 2nd earl of Oxford and Mortimer, book collector and patron of the arts.

Edward Harley bequeathed the library to his widow, Henrietta Cavendish, née Holles (b. 1694, d. 1755) during her lifetime and thereafter to their daughter, Margaret Cavendish Bentinck (b. 1715, d. 1785), duchess of Portland; the manuscripts were sold by the Countess and the Duchess in 1753 to the nation for £10,000 (a fraction of their contemporary value) under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library.

Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), II (1808), p. 733 (no. 3081).

Andrew G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c. 700-1600 in The Department of Manuscripts: The British Library, 2 vols (London: British Library, 1979), no. 728.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Augustine of Hippo, Saint, Bishop of Hippo, 354-430,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121376443,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/66806872
Bernard of Clairvaux, Abbot of Clairvaux, ?1090-1153,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000120962264,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/59875293
Boccaccio, Giovanni, poet and scholar, 1313-1375
Pseudo-Augustine of Hippo,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/000000007738148X,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/7386286
Pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux
Sigebert of Gembloux, c 1030-1112,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000109224682,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/88029539

Places:

Trier, Germany
Western Germany