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Harley MS 3298
- Record Id:
- 040-002049129
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002049129
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x0002a6
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3298
- Title:
- John Chrysostom, translated by Burgundio of Pisa, Sermons on the Gospel of John
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 2r-203r: John Chrysostom, Eighty-eight sermons on the Gospel of John; beginning: 'Omnibus in Christo fidelibus fratribus Burgundio iudex civis pisanus in Domino salutem'; and ending: 'Finis expositionis beati patris nostri sancti iohannis crisostomi in sanctum evangelistum iohannem a burgundione iudice pisano cive de greco in latinum translati Anno Christi Millesimo centesimo septuagesimo octavo Do gracias'. The text was translated from Greek into Latin by Burgundio of Pisa (d. 1193) between 1171-1173. A note at the beginning of the manuscript, in a modern hand, mentions Burgundio (f. 1v), and the 15th-century explicit on f. 203 gives 1178 as the date of his translation of Chrysostom's homilies on John.
The manuscript contains a later addition:
f. 1v: A note on the translation, beginning: 'Burgundius Jurisperitur Pisanus floruit circa annum MCLX'; added in the (?) 16th century.
Decoration:
1 very large (c, 10-line) puzzle initial in blue and red inside a blue frame with pen-flourishing, and featuring penwork decoration with flower motifs in green and red inside the letter (f. 2r). 1 large (6-line) initial in red with floral motifs in green and yellow (f. 5r). Plain (1-3 line) initials in red or blue, some with penwork decoration (e.g., ff. 86v, 99r). Capitals marked in red. Running headers, rubrics, and underlining in red. For the style of the decorated initials see Korteweg, Kriezels (1992).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002049129", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 3298: John Chrysostom, translated by Burgundio of Pisa, Sermons on the Gospel of John" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002049129 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3298 : John Chrysostom, translated by Burgundio of Pisa, Sermons on the Gospel of John - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[3299]/040-002049129
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- 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:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 290 x 210 mm (text space: 190 x 140 mm, in 2 columns).
Foliation: ff. 203 (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf, 1 unfoliated flyleaf consisting of a paper leaf and a parchment leaf that have been pasted together, and 1 unfoliated parchment flyleaf at the beginning + 2 unfoliated parchment flyleaves and 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the end); 1 unfoliated paper pastedown with a printed Harleian shelfmark (3298) and an annotation in pencil on f. [iii]recto; 1 unfoliated parchment stub between f. 1 and f. 2.
Script: Gothic.
Binding: Post-1600. Brown leather with gold tooling.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Northern Netherlands (? Utrecht).
Provenance:
The Augustinian canons regular of Utrecht: their 15th-century ownership inscription on f. [ii]verso: 'Ad R[e]gula[r]es In Traiecto' (previously unidentified and not in Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)); perhaps their shelfmark on f. 1v: 'no. 259 h'.
Johann Georg Graevius (b. 1632, d. 1703), German classical scholar and critic: possibly sold to Wilhelm in 1703 with the rest of his library (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 169).
Johann Wilhelm, Eector Palatine (b. 1658, d. 1716), owner of a library in Düsseldorf: bought the entire Graevius library in 1703 (see Clark, 'The Library of J. G. Graevius' (1891), pp. 368, 370; Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 169).
Giovanni Giacomo Zamboni (d. 1753), resident in London for the Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (c. 1723-1753), friend of Michael Mattaire, the classical scholar and historian of printing: bought the Wilhelm library sometime before 1724 through Johann Büchels (b. 1659, d. 1738): sold by him to Edward Harley on 20 October 1725 (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 367).
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, '20 die Octobris, A.D. 1725' (f. [iii]recto).
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:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), p. 5 [no. 3298].
A. C. Clark, 'The Library of J. G. Graevius', The Classical Review, 5 (1891), 365-72 (pp. 368, 370).
The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by Cyril Ernest Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), II: 1723-1726, p. 385 n. 6.
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. 169, 367.
Anne S. Korteweg, Kriezels, aubergines en takkenbossen: Randversiering in Noordnederlandse handschriften uit de vijftiende eeuw (Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum, 1992) [exhibition catalogue].
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Burgundio of Pisa, 1110-1193,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000108826956
John Chrysostom, Saint, Archbishop of Constantinople, c 347-407,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000456059482,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/305214868 - Places:
- Northern Netherlands
Utrecht, The Netherlands