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Harley MS 4091
- Record Id:
- 040-002049928
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002049928
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000807.0x00025b
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 4091
- Title:
- Pseudo-Augustine, Homiliae quinquanti
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1v-207v: Pseudo-Augustine (here attributed), Homiliae quinquanti, beginning with the rubric: 'Incipit tractatus sancti augustini de eo quod scriptum est Quis est homo qui vult vitam et cupit videre dies bonos'.
Decoration:
Large initials and rubrics in silver or red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002049928", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 4091: Pseudo-Augustine, Homiliae quinquanti" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002049928 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 4091 : Pseudo-Augustine, Homiliae quinquanti - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[4084]/040-002049928
- 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:
- 1000
- End Date:
- 1099
- Date Range:
- 11th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Letter of introduction required to view this manuscript
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchemnt.
Dimensions: 195 x 125 mm (text space: 145 x 80 mm).
Foliation: ff. 207 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 5 at the end); 1 unfoliated parchment stub after f. 206; f. 207 is a torn leaf (loss of text) that has been repaired with new parchment; 1 unfoliated paper pastedown on f. [209]verso (conservation notes).
Collation: Gatherings of 8; each quire has been mounted separately onto a paper guard.
Script: Caroline minuscule.
Binding: British Museum in-house; red half leather binding with the Harleian arms gold stamped on the outside covers; rebound in 1972.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Western Germany.
Provenance:
The Augustinian Friars of the Holy Cross at Welschbillig in Helenenberg, near Trier, founded in 1489: their late 15th-century ownership inscription 'Liber conventus fratrum sancte crucis prope welschbilch. Treuerensis diocesis' and pressmark 'A.xiii' on f. 1r (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 351).
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:
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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. 114 (no. 4091).
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. 351, 439.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Pseudo-Augustine of Hippo,
see also http://isni.org/isni/000000007738148X,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/7386286 - Places:
- Western Germany