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Harley MS 3084

Record Id:

040-002048915

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002048915

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x0001aa

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 3084

Title:

Eusebius of Caesarea, Historia Ecclesiastica, Latin translation by Rufinus of Aquileia

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-173v: Eusebius of Caesarea (b. c. 260-265, d. c. 340), Historia Ecclesiastica (Church History), in Latin translation by Rufinus of Aquileia (b. c. 345, d. 411), with capitula preceding each book.

Decoration:

12 large puzzle initials in red and blue or red and green, with pen-work decoration or pen-flourishing in red and/or blue, at the beginning of the preface and each book (ff. 1r, 2r, 18r, 32v, 50v, 67v, 88v, 109r, 123r, 134v, 145r, 160v).

Small initials in red, blue, or sometimes green.

Rubrics in red.

Originally unfinished initials sketched in plummet (ff. 31v, 75r in plummet and ink, 113v, 121r, 132r, 136r, 137r, 164r, 165v), and one sketched in ink (f. 97r).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002048915

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 3084 : Eusebius of Caesarea, Historia Ecclesiastica, Latin translation by Rufinus of Aquileia

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[3085]/040-002048915

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:

1200

End Date:

1249

Date Range:

1st half of the 13th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 290 x 205 mm (written area 220 x 140 mm, in two columns).

Foliation: ff. 173 (+ 1 unfoliated modern paper flyleaf at the beginning + 1 unfoliated modern paper flyleaf at the end).

Script: Gothic, written above top line.

Binding: Post-1600. Mottled brown leather; fore-edge, and hair and tail edges are speckled in red and green.

Collation: Gatherings are mainly of 8 leaves, with quire signatures in Roman numerals in the lower margin.

Custodial History:

Origin: France.

Provenance:

Johann Georg Graevius (b. 1632, d. 1703), German classical scholar and critic: possibly sold to Wilhelm in 1703 with the rest of his library (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 169).

Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (b. 1658, d. 1716), owner of a library in Düsseldorf: bought the entire Graevius library in 1703 (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 367).

Giovanni Giacomo Zamboni (d. 1753), resident in London for the Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (c. 1723-1753), friend of Michael Mattaire, the classical scholar and historian of printing: bought the Wilhelm library at some point before 1724 through Johann Büchels (b. 1659, d. 1738): sold by him to Edward Harley on 6 August 1724 (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 367).

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: inscribed as usual by their librarian, Humfrey Wanley, '6 die Augusti, A.D. 1724' (f. i recto).

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.

Information About Copies:

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Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), II (1808), p. 734, no. 3084.

The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by Cyril Ernest Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), II: 1723-1726, p. 302 n. 12.

Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 169, 367.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Eusebius of Caesarea, Bishop of Caesarea in Palestine, c 263-c 340,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000122758806,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/4929593
Graevius, Johann Georg, German classical scholar, 1632-1703
Rufinus of Aquileia, c 345-411,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000109183286,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/77679446
Wilhelm, Johann, Elector Palatine, 1658-1716
Zamboni, Giovanni Giacomo, Chargé d'Affaires of the Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt in England, d. 1753

Places:

France