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Harley MS 3524

Record Id:

040-002049356

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002049356

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000807.0x000021

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 3524

Title:

Commentaries on the New Testament; list of biblical books with chapter numbers; table of works by St Augustine and St Jerome; table of liturgical feasts with biblical lections; theological excerpts

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 3r-130v: Commentaries on the New Testament.

f. 130v: A list of books from the Vulgate with their numbers of chapters written above.

f. 131r: A table listing works attributed to Augustine of Hippo and Jerome.

ff. 131r-133v: A table with biblical lections for feasts from the Temporale and Sanctorale.

ff. 134r-167r: Theological excerpts from works by Augustine, Bernard of Clairvaux, Cassiodorus, Jerome, Ambrose, Bede, Gregory the Great, Hugh of Saint-Victor, Haimo of Auxerre, Origen, John of Damascus, Hrabanus Maurus, Dionysius the Areopagite, Anselm of Canterbury.

The manuscript contains a later addition:

ff. 1r-2v: A leaf with an unidentified theological text about the clergy and laity, written in the (?) 14th century.

Decoration:

Large blue or red initials and small initials highlighted in blue or red.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002049356

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 3524 : Commentaries on the New Testament; list of biblical books with chapter numbers; table of works by St Augustine and St Jerome; table…

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[3526]/040-002049356

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:

1385

End Date:

1395

Date Range:

c 1390

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper and parchment.

Dimensions: 215 x 140 mm.

Foliation: ff. 167 (+ 1 unfoliated modern paper flyleaf at the beginning + at the end); ff. 1-2 are formed from a single sheet of parchment that has been folded in half in order to create 2 flyleaves; f. 84 is a parchment strip; 2 unfoliated parchment stubs between f. 2 and f. 3.

Script: Gothic cursive.

Binding: Post-1600. Harleian binding.

Custodial History:

Origin:

Oxford, England.

Provenance:

A scribe at Brasenose College, Oxford, wrote ff. 134r-167r in 1390: a colophon on f. 166v: ‘Finita est ista tabula anno domini. millesimo tricentesimo nonogesimo proxima feria sexta ante nativitatem domini. cuius festi solempnitas in dominica die acciderat. finita inquam in oxoniis in aula Brizznas eius autem utilitatem pensa. quod nec valet nisi ahbeas tabulam precedentem etcaetera’; the rest of the manuscript has been written in a contemporary hand and features a similar style of decoration.

Clement Burdett (d. 1569), rector of Englefield, Berkshire, and official principal to the bishop of Salisbury: his name inscribed on f. 2r.

Samuel Knott (b. 1661, d. 1668), rector of Combe Raleigh in Devon; antiquary and collector of manuscripts: his ownership inscription ‘Liber Sam: Kanuti Rectoris de CombeRawleigh in Devoniam’ on f. 2v.

Robert Burscough (b. 1650/51, d. 1709), Prebendary of Exeter; Archdeacon of Barnstaple: Harley purchased the manuscript from him through his widow in 1715.

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 '17 May 1715' (f. 1r).

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. 37.

Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), p. 430.

Andrew G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c. 700-1600 in The Department of Manuscripts: The British Library, 2 vols (London: British Library, 1979), I: The Text, p. 136 (no. 762); II: The Plates, pl. 284.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Places:

Oxford, England

Related Material:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), p. 37.