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Harley MS 3946

Record Id:

040-002049783

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002049783

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000807.0x0001ca

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 3946

Title:

Theological miscellany

Scope & Content:

The manuscript is composed of two contemporary parts (ff. 1-42 and 43-74) and includes:

ff. 1r-42v: Gregory the Great, De cura pastorali;

ff. 43r-59r: Innocent III, De miseria humanae conditionis;

ff. 59v-74v: Augustine, De trinitate (imperfect).

f. 1* is a leaf from a late 12th century liturgical manuscript including the office of St Romanus of Rouen, with musical notation, incipit (Matins, verse 4): 'Vir beatus mox ut iussit aqua sibi paruit' (see Medieval Music Database, La Trobe University, http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/MMDB/Genre/GVerse82.HTM [accessed 11 02 2013])

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002049783

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 3946 : Theological miscellany

Contains:

Harley MS 3946, ff 1r-42v : Gregory the Great, De cura pastorali
Harley MS 3946, ff 43r-59r : Innocent III, De miseria humanae conditionis
Harley MS 3946, ff 59v-74v : Augustine, De trinitate

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Hierarchy:

032-002045828[3939]/040-002049783

Container:

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

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Parchment codex.

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1230

End Date:

1270

Date Range:

Mid 13th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimension: 285 x 190 mm (text space: ff. 1r-42v: 185 x 115 mm; ff. 43r-59r: 185 x 120 mm; ff. 59v-74v: 185 x 140 mm).

Foliation: ff. 1* + 74 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves: 1at the beginning and 1 at the end; f. 1* is a parchment leaf from a different manuscript formerly used as a paste-down). Leaf signatures (i, ii, iii, iiii, v) in quires 1-2; remains of catchwords.

Script: Gothic, written below top line; written by two scribes (ff. 1r-43v and 43r-74v).

Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house binding of brown leather..

Custodial History:

Origin: England.

Provenance:

The Benedictine cathedral priory of St Cuthbert, Durham: Durham library pressmarks 'D 2' with a title 'pastoralia g[re]gorii et Lotharius de miseria condicionis humane cum aliis'; and '1.3ⁱD 2', 15th century (f. 1r); included in the catalogues of books in the Spendement of 1392 and 1416, under 'Gregorius D', and identifiable from the beginning of the secundo folio 'turbaverant' (see Catalogi veteres librorum Ecclesiæ Cathedralis Dunelm: Catalogues of the Library of Durham Cathedral, ed by J. Raine and B. Botfield, Publications of the Sutrees Society, 7 (London: Nichols and Son, 1938), pp. 20, 96).

Thomas Tempest (d. 1692), 4th baronet, county Durham, in his library: inscribed 'Sr. Thomas Temp[es]t Baronet' (f. 1r); bequeathed to his daughter, Jane.William Widdrington, 4th baron Widdrington (b. 1678, d. 1743), husband of Jane (d. 1714), disposed of Tempest’s medieval manuscript collection to the Harleian Library after her death (Doyle, ‘Library of Sir Thomas Tempest’, 1984).

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.

Administrative Context:

England.

Information About Copies:

Select digital coverage available for this manuscript, see Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/welcome.htm.

Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London, 1808-1812), III (1808), no. 3946.

C. E. Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 142, 325.

A. I. Doyle, ‘The Library of Sir Thomas Tempest: Its Origins and Dispersal’, in Studies in Seventeenth-Century English Literature, History and Historiography: Festschrift for Professor T. A. Birrell on the Occasion of his Sixtieth Brithday, ed. by G. A. M. Janssens and F. G. A. M. Aarts (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1984), pp. 83-93.

Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books ed. by N. R. Ker, Supplement to the Second Edition, ed. by Andrew G. Watson, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 15 (London: The Royal Historical Society, 1987), p. 30.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Augustine of Hippo, Saint, Bishop of Hippo, 354-430,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121376443,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/66806872
Bentinck, Margaret Cavendish, duchess of Portland, née Harley, collector of art and natural history specimens and patron of arts and sciences, 11 Feb 1715-17 Jul 1785,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000115857160,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/2356861
Durham Cathedral Priory, 1083-1539
Gregory I, Saint, Pope; also known as 'the Great', c 540-604,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121451132,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/100184667
Harley, Edward, second earl of Oxford and Mortimer, book collector and patron of the arts, 2 Jun 1689-16 Jun 1741,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000108078249,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/160524259
Harley, Henrietta Cavendish, Countess of Oxford and Mortimer, née Holles, patron of architecture, 4 Feb 1694-9 Dec 1755,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000030125833,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/6045563
Harley, Robert, first Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, 5 Dec 1661-21 May 1724,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000083423906
Innocent III, Pope, 1160/61-1216,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000122769169,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/16017787
Tempest, Thomas, 4th Baronet, d. 1692