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Harley MS 3170

Record Id:

040-002049001

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002049001

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x000206

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 3170

Title:

Pseudo-John Chrysostom, Sermons on Matthew

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 2r-21v: An alphabetical index to the sermons of Matthew; imperfect due to the loss of folios and beginning with the letter 'C'.

ff. 22r-231r: Pseudo-John Chrysostom, Sermons on Matthew; imperfect at the beginning due to an erased opening page (featuring only the decorated initials and partial border decoration). The text was once attributed to John Chrysostom by Pope Nicholas I in the ninth century, but its authorship is now assigned to an Arian Christian influenced by the concepts of Pelagius.

The manuscript contains various later additions:

f. 231v: A Latin note by John Covel on the order of the sermons (beginning: 'Homiliae hic ponuntur hoc ordine') and a 1603 edition of the text [probably that of Commelin, a printer at Heidelberg] (beginning: 'Habetur hoc opus in Edit. Commelin .1603. post Homilias Graecas in Mattaeum'); these notes have been fully transcribed in A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts, III (1808), p. 7 [but the notes have been erroneously transcribed as part of Harley MS 3171].

f. 232r: Notes by John Covel concerning a 1603 edition of the text, probably that of Commelin, a printer at Heidelberg, beginning: 'Vide hic [...] Comelinian .1603.'; added by John Covel.

f. 232r: An English inscription about a printed pbulication: 'A boke namyd þe commendations the commendations [sic] of matrimo [...] Impryntyd by Red[...]'; almost certainly the the Jesuit priest William Harrington (b. 1566, d. 1594)'s Co[m]mendacions of matrymony that was published in 1528 London printer Robert Redman (d. 1540).

f. 232r: A list of book, entitled: 'Nomina Librorum', featuring: Jacobus Peres of Valentia's Psalter commentary and Desiderius Erasmus's sermons; added in the early 16th century.

f. 233r: 'Incipit omelia primum beati Johannis Crisostomi super Math[eum]'; added in the 15th or 16th century.

f. 233r: Music notation (neumes) on a 4-line staff in brown ink with the text: 'Populum cunctum tu protege salva libera [h]eripe et emunda'; added in the 15th or 16th century.

f. 233r: A prayer: 'Sit nomen domini Jhesu benedictum in eternum et ultra amen amen amen'; added in the 15th or 16th century.

f. 233r: Latin and Greek sayings, including: 'O petre calve semper dico tibi salve' and 'Verba omni que non convertitur ad opera arena sunt [...]'; added in the 15th or 16th century.

'f. 233r: 'Amor animae vacantis Passio'; added in 17th century by John Covel.

Decoration:

1 very large initial 'S' in colours and gold with a partial foliate border (f. 22r). Large (3-line) initials in blue with red pen-flourishing. Running headers in red. Paraphs in red or blue. Added marginal sketch in brown ink of a bearded man holding a halberd (f. 155r). Added sketches of human faces in red ink (f. 2v) and brown and black ink (f. 233r).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002049001

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 3170 : Pseudo-John Chrysostom, Sermons on Matthew

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[3171]/040-002049001

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1400

End Date:

1499

Date Range:

15th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 380 x 260 mm (text space: 265 x 170 mm, in 2 columns).

Foliation: ff. 233 (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning + 2 at the end); 1 unfoliated parchment stub between f. 231 and f. 232; ff. 1, 232-233 are parchment leaves that originally served as flyleaves; f. 232 has been largely cut out.

Collation: Indicated by horizontal catchwords in boxes drawn in brown ink; and leaf signatures.

Script: Gothic.

Binding: British Museum in-house. Rebound on 21 April 1964.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

Robert Told: his 15th-century ownership inscription on f. 330r: 'possessor huius libri est dominus Robertus Told' (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 330).

John Covel (b. 1638, d. 1722), chaplain of the Levant Company at Constantinople 1670-1676 : inscribed in his hand, 'Homeliae B. Chrysostomi sup[er] Matthaeum vide plura ad finem' (f. 1v); marginal annotations by him commenting on the Latin throughout the manuscript; notes by him on ff. 231v-232r; no. 4 in the Latin section of his catalogue (Add MS 22911, ff. 180r-183r); sold, together with Covel's other manuscripts, to Edward Harley for £300 on 27 Feb. 1715/6 (Diary, ed. by Wright and Wright (1966), I, p. 211 n. 1; Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 114) .

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. 7 [no. 3170].

The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by Cyril Ernest Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), I: 1715-1723, pp. xxxiv-xxxvi; II: 1723-1726, p. 211 n. 1.

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. 113-17, 330.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Pseudo-John Chrysostom,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000456059482,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/305214868

Places:

England