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Harley MS 3149

Record Id:

040-002048980

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002048980

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x0001f1

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 3149

Title:

Interpretatio Homiliarum Duarum Origenis In Canticum Canticorum; Origen, In Canticum Canticorum

Scope & Content:

Contents:

f. 1v: A 'Nota' about Origen, Jerome, Benedict, and Gregory the Great: 'Origenes fuit anno domini ducentesimo vicesimo quarto qui post apostolos super omnes in ecclesia dei sciencia eloquencia et vita floruit'.

f. 1v: A note on Epithalamia, excerpted from Isidore of Sevile's Etymologiae, beginning: 'Epitalamia sunt carmina nubencium que decantatur ab scolasticis in honorem sponsi et sponse'

f. 2r: Interpretatio Homiliarum Duarum Origenis In Canticum Canticorum (translated by Jerome), Prologue, entitled: 'Incipit prefacio sancti Jheronimi presbiteri ad damasum papam in tractatus origenis super cantico canticorum'; beginning: 'Beatissimo pape damaso. Ieronimus Origenes cum in ceteris libris omnes vicerit ; in cantico canticorum ipse se vicit'.

ff. 2r-6v: Interpretatio Homiliarum Duarum Origenis In Canticum Canticorum (translated by Jerome), Homily I, entitled: 'Incipit tractatus sancti iheronimie de cnatico canticorum post origenem translatus primus feliciter', beginning: 'Quo modo didicimus per moysen quedam non solum sancta sed et sancta sanctorum et alia non tantum sabbata sed et sabbata sabbatorum'.

ff. 6v-12v: Interpretatio Homiliarum Duarum Origenis In Canticum Canticorum (translated by Jerome), Homily II, entitled: 'Tractatus secundus eiusdem utrum ab eo loco in quo scriptum est mea dedit odorem suum usque eum locum in quo ait: 'quia vox tua suavis et forma tuo speciosa''; beginning: 'Omnes anime motiones universitatis conditor deus creavit et fecit'; ending on f. 12v: 'Expliciunt duo tractatus sancti iheronimi presbiteri de cantico canticorum post venerabilem origenem presbiterum doctorem eximium translati'.

ff. 13r-60r: Origen, In Canticum Canticorum (translated by Rufinus), entitled: 'Incipit prefacio eiusdem venerabilis origenis presbiteri in expositionem maiorem egregiamque ipsius cantici canticorum salomonis filij david regis israel'; beginning: 'Epitalamium libellus hic id est nupciale carmen dramatis in modum videtur michi a salomone conscriptus'; and ending imperfectly in Book 3: 'De quibus Solomon in proverbiis dicit: "hi autem edunt cibos impieta[tis]'.

Decoration:

1 large (9-line) initial in blue and green with floral motifs (f. 2r). 3 large blue initials, some with simple geometric motifs (ff. 6v [4 lines], 13r [10 lines], 23v [11 lines]). Numerous smaller (2-4 line) plain red initials. Capitals highlighted in red. Rubrics, incipits, and paraphs in red.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002048980

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 3149 : Interpretatio Homiliarum Duarum Origenis In Canticum Canticorum; Origen, In Canticum Canticorum

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[3150]/040-002048980

Container:

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1450

End Date:

1499

Date Range:

2nd half of the 15th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 310 x 210 mm (text space: 235 x 155 mm, in 2 columns).

Foliation: ff. 60 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 2 at the end).

Script: Gothic.

Binding: Post-1600. Blind-stamped and gold-tooled mottled brown leather.

Custodial History:

Origin:

Western Germany (? Trier).

Provenance:

The Benedictine abbey of Santa Maria ad Martyres extra Muros, Trier: its 15th-century ownership inscriptions on f. 1r: 'Codex monasterii beatae Mariae ad Martyres', and on f. 1v: 'Codex monasterii sancte marie ad Martires super litus moselle extra muros [treverenses] ordinis sancti benedicti'; its pressmark on f. 1v: 'E.7'; similar in style and handwriting to Harley MSS 3148 and 3152 and perhaps part of the same set of manuscripts (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), pp. 331-32).

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), III (1808), p. 6 [no. 3149].

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. 331-32.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Jerome, Saint, c 345-420,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000123213293,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/95147024
Origen, c 185-c 254,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000123213322,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/95155322
Rufinus of Aquileia, c 345-411,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000109183286,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/77679446

Places:

Trier, Germany
Western Germany