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Harley MS 3095
- Record Id:
- 040-002048926
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048926
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x0001b5
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100056053466.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3095
- Title:
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Vita Boethii; Cassiodorus Senator, Anecdoton Holderi; Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae; Bovo II of Corvey, Commentary on Boethius's De consolatione philosophiae; Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae (excerpt); List of Byzantine offices; Eugenius of Toledo, Libellus carminum (excerpt); Notated Greek Cherubic Hymn (Latin translation); Boethius, De sancta trinitate; Utrum Pater et Filius et Spiritus sanctus de diuinitate substantialiter praedicentur; De hebdomadibus; Contra Eutychen et Nestorium
- Scope & Content:
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The first quire of the manuscript is now Harley MS 2688, ff. 17–22, which includes a diagram of the winds, hymns, sequences with neumes, a Greek and Latin glossary, 'Proverbia Salomonis', and a drawing of Philosophy visiting Boethius in prison (Ganz, 'A tenth-century drawing' (1981); Bergmann and Stricker, Katalog der althochdeutschen (2005)).
f. 1*r–1*v: Pen trials, including a large erased circle (double-line in red).
f. 1*v: ‘Hę sunt dyptongi grecorum’, followed by two lines of trial Greek characters.
f. 1v: Anonymous, Vita Boethii (Life of Boethius), beginning: ‘Tempore Theodorici regis insignis auctor Boetius claruit’.
ff. 1v–2r: Cassiodorus Senator (b. c. 485, d. 580), Anecdoton Holderi (Anecdote of Holder), beginning: ‘Boetius dignitatibus summis excelluit utraque lingua peritissimus orator’.
ff. 2v–110v: Boethius (b. c. 480, d. 524), De consolatione philosophiae (The Consolation of Philosophy) 1–3 metrical line 9, with extensive marginal and interlinear glosses.
ff. 47r–59r: Bovo II (d. 916), abbot of Corvey, Commentary on Boethius's De consolatione philosophiae 3 metre 9, ‘O qui perpetua’.
ff. 59r–61v: Commentary on ‘O qui perpetua’.
ff. 2v–110v: Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae, 3 prose 10–5, with glosses.
f. 111r: List of Byzantine offices.
f. 111r: Eugenius (d. 657), archbishop of Toledo, Libellus carminum (Book of Chants) 37.1–7.
f. 111v: Notated Greek Cherubic Hymn or 'Cheroubikon' in a Latin translation. German-style neumes (Cologne?), early 11th century. Neumes are also occasionally found throughout the manuscript used as signposts for marginal glosses.
f. 113r: Added sketch of a knotted cross.
ff. 113v–121v: Boethius, De sancta trinitate (On the Holy Trinity), with glosses.
ff. 121v–123r: Boethius, Utrum Pater et Filius et Spiritus sanctus de diuinitate substantialiter praedicentur (Whether Father, Son and Holy Spirit May Be Substantially Predicated of the Divinity), with glosses.
ff. 123r–132v: Boethius, De hebdomadibus (On the Seven Days), with glosses.
ff. 132v–149v: Boethius, Contra Eutychen et Nestorium (Against Eutyches and Nestorius), with glosses, ending imperfectly.
Decoration:
A full-page diagram of the seven spheres of the universe in red and brown (f. 112v).
Rubrics in red square capitals. New sections open with an enlarged capital.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- England and France 700-1200 Project
Harley Collection - Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002048926 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3095 : Vita Boethii; Cassiodorus Senator, Anecdoton Holderi; Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae; Bovo II of Corvey, Commentary… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[3096]/040-002048926
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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A parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100056053466.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0925
- End Date:
- 0949
- Date Range:
- 2nd quarter of the 10th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 275 × 220 mm (text space: 170 × 115/120 mm).
Foliation: ff. 1* + 149 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and end); f. 1* is a medieval parchment flyleaf.
Collation: itwo (ff. 1*–1), ii–xiv8 (ff. 2–105), xv8–1 (ff. 106–112; 8th cancelled), xvi–xviii8 (ff. 113–136), xix10 (ff. 137–146), xx4–1 (ff. 147–149; 4th excised). Signature at centre of the lower margin of the first recto of quires beginning at f. 42r (‘iii’–‘xv’). First gathering now Harley 2688, ff. 17–22 (a quire of three bifolia).
Script: Caroline minuscule.
Binding: Post-1600. 'Harleian' binding of gold-tooled red morocco attributable to Thomas Elliott; marbled endpapers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Western Germany or Eastern France.
Provenance:
From Eastern France, according to Codices Boethiani (1995), or from Cologne, according to Mayr-Harting, Church and Cosmos in Early Ottonian Germany (1987); Huglo, 'Remarques' (1991).
'Ruotbert', unidentified: 10th-century inscription in rustic capitals 'Ruotberti liber. Non est alius huic similis' (f. 89).
? Cologne Cathedral: owned (see Kramer, Handschriftenerbe des deutschen Mittelalters (1989)).
An unknown 11th-century owner: added early 11th-century musical notation (neumes), from Germany (Cologne ?) (ff. 111v, 149v); neumes are also occasionally found throughout the manuscript used as signposts for marginal glosses (see Huglo, 'Remarques' (1991)).
? Johann Georg Graevius (b. 1632, d. 1703), German classical scholar and critic: possibly owned and sold to Wilhelm in 1703 with the rest of his library (Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)).
? Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (b. 1658, d. 1716), owner of a library in Düsseldorf: possibly bought with the entire Graevius library in 1703 (Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)).
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 sometime before 1724 through Johann Büchels (b. 1659, d. 1738) (Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)); sold to Edward Harley on 20 October 1725 (Wright and Wright, The Diary of Humphrey Wanley (1966); Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)).
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 ‘20 die mensis Octobris, A.D. 1725’ (f. 1*r).
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.
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- Publications:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), II (1808), no. 3095.
[E. Maunde Thompson and G. F. Warner], Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts in the British Museum, 2 vols (London: British Museum, 1881-1884), Part II: Latin, pp. 74-76, pl. 57.
Wilhelm Köhler, 'Die Karolingishen Miniaturen', in Zweiter Bericht über die Denkmäler Deutscher Kunst (Berlin: Reimer, 1912), pp. 52-77 (p. 58).
Herbert Thoma, ‘Altdeutsches aus Londer Hss’, Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutscher Sprache und Literatur, 73 (1951), 197-271 (pp. 234-39).
R.B.C. Huygens, ‘Mittelalterliche Kommentare zum O qui perpetua’, Sacris Erudiri, 6 (1954), pp. 343–427, https://doi.org/10.1484/J.SE.2.304674.
The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by Cyril E. Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), II: 1723-1726, pp. 385-86 n. 6.
Cyril E. 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, 422.
David Ganz, 'A Tenth-Century Drawing of Philosophy visiting Boethius', in Boethius: His Life, Thought and Influence, ed. by Margaret Gibson (Oxford: Blackwell, 1981), 275-77 (p. 275).
Sigrid Krämer, Handschriftenerbe des deutschen Mittelalters, Mittelalterliche Bibliothekskataloge Deutschlands der Schweiz, ed. by Bernard Bischoff, Supplement 1, 3 vols (Munich: Beck, 1989-1990), II (1989): Köln-Zyfflich, p. 417.
Michel Huglo, 'Remarques sur un manuscrit de la Consolatio Philosophiae (Londres, British Library, Harleian 3095)', Scriptorium: Revue internationale des études relatives aux manuscrits, 45 (1991), 288-94.
Codices Boethiani: A Conspectus of Manuscripts of the Works of Boethius, ed. by M. T. Gibson and Lesley Smith, Warburg Institute Surveys and Texts, 25 (London: Warburg Institute, 1995-2001), I: Great Britain and the Republic of Ireland, pp. 144-45 (no. 124).
Nicolas Bell, Music in Medieval Manuscripts (London: British Library, 2001), p. 29, pl. on p. 28.
Bernhard Bischoff, Katalog der festländischen Handschriften des neunten Jahrhunderts, 3 vols (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1998-2014), II (2004): Laon-Paderborn, ed. by Birgit Ebersperger, p. 121.
Rolf Bergmann and Stefanie Stricker, Katalog der althochdeutschen und altsächsischen Glossenhandschriften, 6 vols (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2005), II, pp. 886-87 no. 418 [with further bibliography].
Henry Mayr-Harting, Church and Cosmos in Early Ottonian Germany: The View from Cologne (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), pp. 156, 166-68.
Lesley Smith, The Glossa Ordinaria: The Making of a Medieval Bible Commentary (Leiden: Brill, 2009), p. 92.
Rosalind C. Love, 'The Latin Commentaries on Boethius's De Consolatione', in A Companion to Boethius in the Middle Ages, ed. by N. H. Kaylor and P. E. Phillips (Leiden: Brill, 2012), pp. 75-134 (p. 88).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Notes:
- This manuscript is part of The Polonsky Foundation England and France Project: Manuscripts from the British Library and the Bibliothèque nationale de France, 700-1200.