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Harley MS 3107
- Record Id:
- 040-002048938
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048938
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x0001c2
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100059347026.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3107
- Title:
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St Augustine, Epistolae
- Scope & Content:
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The Epistolae (Letters) of St Augustine (b. 354, d. 430).
Written in Western or North-Western France (ex info. Michael Gullick), the manuscript was given by the bishop of Lucca to the Carmelite convent of San Pietro Cigoli in Lucca.
Contents:
ff. 1*v-147v: Augustine, Epistolae, beginning: ‘Domino nimiumque venerabili et omnibus mihi officiis’.
Decoration:
Large initials in red, blue or green, frequently with reserved lines and with penwork decoration including arabesque and foliate motifs in the two alternate colours, for epistles. 1 small puzzle initial in green and yellow with some red penwork (f. 1*v). Display script in alternate red, yellow, green and blue letters, in green, or in alternate green and brown lines, with penwork decoration and reserved lines (ff. 1*v, 147v). Other rubrics in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- England and France 700-1200 Project
Harley Collection - Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002048938", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 3107: St Augustine, Epistolae" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002048938 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3107 : St Augustine, Epistolae - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[3108]/040-002048938
- 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_100059347026.0x000001 (opens in a new tab)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1150
- End Date:
- 1174
- Date Range:
- 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
- User Conditions:
- Letter of introduction required to view this manuscript
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 230 x 115 mm (text space: 185 x 75 mm, in two columns).
Foliation: ff. 1* + 150 (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf and 2 unfoliated early modern parchment flyleaves at the beginning + 2 unfoliated early modern parchment flyleaves and 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the end); f. 150 is a medieval parchment flyleaf which has previously served as a paste-down.
Script: Protogothic.
Binding: Post-1600. Blind- and gold-tooled light brown leather over wooden boards; marbled endpapers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Western or North-Western France.
Provenance:
Several unknown ?12th-century owners: added further text and list of emperors from Charlemagne to Conrad III (d. 1152), in ?12th-century hands (ff. 147v-149v).
Nicola Sandonnini (b. 1422, d. 1499), bishop of Modena (1465-1477), and of Lucca (1477-1499): his gift to the Carmelites of S. Pietro Cigoli in Lucca, 1491; inscribed 'Reverendus in Christo pater dominus Nicolaus ex comitibus sancti Domini civis et Episcopus Lucensis dono dicavit hunc codicem Bibliothecae Conventus Sancti Petri Coelicole ordinis et observantiae fratrum Carmelitarum, Mo cccco lxxxxio' (f. 1*v).
The Carmelite convent of San Pietro Cigoli in Lucca: donated to the convent by Nicola Sandonnini (f. 1*v).
A monastic library founded or endowed by the Guicciardini family (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), pp. 173-74).
An unknown early modern owner: their monogram ?’AM’ (f. 150r).
John Gibson (fl. 1720-1726), dealer: sold to Edward Harley on 13th February 1723/4 (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), pp. 162-63).
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 ‘13 die Februarij, A.D. 1723/4’ [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.
- 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, p. 2 (no. 3107).
Nicolete Gray, A History of Lettering: Creative Experiment and Letter Identity (Oxford: Phaidon, 1986), p. 102 (fig. 118).
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. 213, 216 (n. 7).
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. 162, 174, 228-29, 296.
Cyril Ernest Wright, 'Manuscripts of Italian Provenance in the Harleian Collection in the British Museum: Their Sources, Associations and Channels of Acquisition', in Cultural Aspects of the Italian Renaissance: Essays in Honour of Paul Oskar Kristeller, ed. by Cecil H. Clough (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1976), pp. 462-84 (p. 467).
- 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.