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Harley MS 3213
- Record Id:
- 040-002049044
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002049044
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x000241
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100059347452.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3213
- Title:
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Pseudo-Jerome, Commentary on the Gospel of St Matthew; Remigius of Auxerre, Commentary on the Gospel of St Mark; Christian of Stavelot, Expositio in Matthaeum; St Augustine, Sermo de corpore et sanguine Domini; patristic excerpts; St Augustine, Sermo de scripturis veteribus et novis et de trinitate contra Arrianos; anonymous treatise on heresy; Hexametric verses on the canonical hours
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains a compilation of several commentaries on the Gospels of St Matthew and St Mark, one by Remigius of Auxerre (b. c. 841, d. 908) and others attributed to St Jerome (b. 347, d. 420) and Christian of Stavelot (fl. 865). The works form the basis for the 12th-century systematic commentary on the two gospels known as Parva glossa (The Small gloss) by theologians from the school of Laon led by Anselm of Laon (d. 1117). The manuscript also contains numerous patristic excerpts, including sermons by St Augustine (b. 354, d. 430) and Eusebius of Caesarea (b. 263, d. 339) as well as hexametric verses on the canonical hours.
Contents:
ff. 1r-22v: Various extracts from patristic works followed by verses on the Virgin and a sermon on St Blasius, beginning: ‘Ambrosius quia caro ex Adam’.
ff. 22v-66v: Pseudo-Jerome, Commentary on the Gospel of St Matthew, beginning: ‘Liber duobus modis accipitur’.
ff. 67r-94v: Remigius of Auxerre, Commentary on the Gospel of St Mark, beginning: ‘Marcus primus Alexandrie fuit episcopus’.
ff. 94v-110v: Christian of Stavelot, Expositio in Matthaeum (A Commentary on the Gospel of St Matthew), beginning: ‘in sexto die domino placuit crucifigitur’.
ff. 111r-116r: St Augustine, Sermo de corpore et sanguine Domini (A Sermon on the Body and Blood of the Lord), beginning: ‘Audivimus veracem magistrum divinum redemptorem’.
ff. 116r-121r: Eusebius of Caesarea, Sermo de corpore et sanguine domini (A Sermon on the Body and Blood of the Lord), beginning: ‘magnitudo caelestium beneficiorum angustias humanae’.
ff. 121r-128r: Various patristic excerpts, beginning: ‘Eucharistia sumenda est’.
ff. 128r-130r: St Augustine, Sermo de scripturis veteribus et novis et de trinitate contra Arrianos (A Sermon on the Old and New Testament and on the Trinity against Arians), beginning: ‘Sancta et divina eloquia fratres iugitur immo cottidie’.
ff. 130v-132r: A polemical tract about heresy, beginning: ‘Musani fertur libellus multa elegantia scriptus’.
ff. 132r-134r: Hexametric verses on the canonical hours, beginning: ‘Expedit horarum sensum causas’.
f. 134v: A table of contents in a 15th-century script.
Decoration:
Two very large plain initials in red (ff. 111r, 128r). Large initials in black, some with simple red pen-work decoration. Several large plain initials in red. Capitals marked in red. Rubrics in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- England and France 700-1200 Project
Harley Collection - Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002049044", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 3213: Pseudo-Jerome, Commentary on the Gospel of St Matthew; Remigius of Auxerre, Commentary on the Gospel of St Mark; Christian of…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002049044 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3213 : Pseudo-Jerome, Commentary on the Gospel of St Matthew; Remigius of Auxerre, Commentary on the Gospel of St Mark; Christian… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[3214]/040-002049044
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100059347452.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1000
- End Date:
- 1049
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 11th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 170 x 120 mm (text space: 130 x 90 mm).
Foliation: ff. 134 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end).
Script: Caroline minuscule.
Binding: Post-1600. British Museum/British Library in-house. Rebound in 1965. The brown leather covers of a previous binding are pasted on the inside covers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: France.
Provenance:
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.
- 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 (1808), pp. 9-10 (no. 3213).
Hans Hermann Glunz, History of the Vulgate in England from Alcuin to Roger Bacon (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1933), pp. 266 (n. 1), 313-16.
Bernhard Lambert, Bibliotheca Hieronymiana manuscripta: La tradition manuscrite des œuvres de Saint Jérôme, Insturmenta Patristica, 4:2 (Steenbrugge: Abbey of St Peter, 1969), p. 313.
- 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.