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Harley MS 3104
- Record Id:
- 040-002048935
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048935
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x0001be
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100056053840.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3104
- Title:
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Hrabanus Maurus, Commentariorum in Matthaeum
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-2v: Hrabanus Maurus, Commentariorum in Matthaeum libri octo (Commentary on Matthew in eight books), preceded by a prologue (ff. 1r-v) and capitula (ff. 1v-2v), beginning of the Prologue: 'Memor itaque illi precepti quod per vas sibi aptum olim sapientia protulit'.
ff. 3r-157v: Hrabanus Maurus, Commentariorum in Matthaeum libri octo, Book 1 (ff. 3r-23v) preceded by a prologue (f. 3r), beginning: 'In Evangelium Beati Mathei opportunum esse iudicavi'; Book 2 (ff. 23v-46v), beginning: 'Postquam ergo Matheus evvangelista (sic) de quadraginta dierum ieiunio'; Book 3 (ff. 46v-65r), beginning: 'Finitis ergo sermonibus quibus Salvator in monte docuit'; Book 4 (ff. 65r-80r), beginning: 'Cum autem sermones Domini de convocatione apostolorum'; Book 5 (ff. 80r-99v), beginning: 'Et factum est cum consummasset Ihesus sermones istos vel parabolas istas'; Book 6 (ff. 99v-117r): 'Explicatis ergo sermonibus Domini quos in Galilaea post expetitum ab eo tributum ad apostolos de innocentia et humilitate ipse Salvator habuerat'; Book 7 (ff. 117r-135r), beginning: 'Scribis et Phariseis atque Saduceis temptatoribus Christi'; Book 8 (ff. 135r-157v), beginning: 'Quoniam tractatus Sancti Evangeli secundum Matheum a principio usque ad passionem Domini in septem libris'.
Decoration:
Spaces reserved for the initials to the prologue and to the beginning of books 1-3 and 8 (ff. 3r, 23v, 46v, 135r). Added large initial of f. 1r late 15th century.
Large and smaller initials in green, red or light brown, occasionally with a reserved line, often with some penwork decoration including arabesque motifs in the same and/or one or two other colour(s). Display script in red, in light brown or in dark brown, for letters following large initials. Rubrics in red.
Quire signatures; remains of leaf marks. Drawing of a head in crayon or plummet in the lower margins of ff. 23r, 24r.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- England and France 700-1200 Project
Harley Collection - Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002048935", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 3104: Hrabanus Maurus, Commentariorum in Matthaeum" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002048935 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3104 : Hrabanus Maurus, Commentariorum in Matthaeum - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[3105]/040-002048935
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100056053840.0x000001 (opens in a new tab)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1150
- End Date:
- 1199
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 345 x 245 mm (text space: 270 x 170-180 mm, in 2 columns).
Foliation: ff. 157 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 2 at the end; the paste-downs and all flyleaves, except the first at the beginning, include documents in 16th-century script).
Script: Protogothic.
Binding: Post-1600. Gilt-tooled light brown leather over paste boards; armorial stamp at the centre of both covers (see Provenance).
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
?Normandy, Northwestern France.
Provenance:
The Benedictine abbey of St Sauveur-le-Vicomte, Manche, Normandy: inscribed 'Iste liber est de abbatia sancti salvatoris vicecomitis Constanciensis diocesis' (ff. 2v, 97r, 157v), 14th century.
One large initial in red and blue was added on f. 1r in the 15th century.
Nicholas Joseph Foucault (b. 1643, d. 1721), marquis de Magny, statesman and archaeologist: his book-plate with the legend 'EX BIBLIOTHECA | NICOLAI JOSEPH FOUCAULT | COMITIS CONSISTORIANI' with his arms [sable] a lion rampant, dexter, crowned [argent], as supporters two lions [argent]; a couronne de marquis surmounting the shield (pasted inside upper cover); on his library in general see: Léopold Delisle, Le Cabinet des Manuscrits de la Bibliothèque Impériale [Nationale]: Étude sur la formation de ce depot, 3 vols (Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1868-1881), I, pp. 373-80.
Thomas Ballard, bookseller and book auctioneer: his sale, 20 February 1820/1, lot 8 (see The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726 (1966); Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 62).
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 ‘23 Februarij, A.D. 1720/21’ (2nd paper flyleaf at the beginning).
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:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III, no. 3104.
C. E. Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 62-63, 155-56, 295.
The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by C. E. Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), I: 1715-1723, p. 89 n. 2.
- 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.