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Harley MS 2650

Record Id:

040-001608998

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-001608998

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001442.0x00027e

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Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 2650

Title:

Martianus Capella, De astronomia and Baudri de Bourgueil, De tribus mundi partibus et de distribucione tocius orbis

Scope & Content:

The manuscript includes:

Martianus Capella, De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii, book 8 (De astronomia) (ff. 1r-33v);

Baudri de Bourgueil, De tribus mundi partibus et de distribucione tocius orbis, montium et fluminum (fragment of carmen 134 Adelae Comitissae, v. 749-945) (ff. 33v-37r);

Astronomical text, incipit 'Sit tabula Walzalchore imposita per quatuor equissimas partes divisa' (ff. 37r-39r);

Astronomical text, incipit: 'Cuiuslibet totus ut astris (?) un partes xvi divisi' (f. 39v);

2 medical recipes, incipit: 'Ad omnes febres' (f. 39v).

Decoration:

6 diagrams in red, occasionally with light brown, green and blue (ff. 23v, 26v, 28r, 28v, 32r, 32v). 2 diagrams in brown ink with some red (ff. 18v, 20r), perhaps added later. 1 initial in blue and light brown (f. 3r). Simple initials in red, blue, green or light brown.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection
Harley Science Project

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-001608998

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 2650 : Martianus Capella, De astronomia and Baudri de Bourgueil, De tribus mundi partibus et de distribucione tocius orbis

Contains:

Harley MS 2650, ff 1r-33v : Martianus Capella, De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii, book 8 (De astronomia).
Harley MS 2650, ff 33v-37r : Baudri de Bourgueil, De tribus mundi partibus et de distribucione tocius orbis, montium et fluminum.
Harley MS 2650, ff 37r-39r : Astronomical text, incipit 'Sit tabula Walzalchore imposita per quatuor equissimas partes divisa.'
Harley MS 2650, f 39v item 1 : Astronomical text 'Cuiuslibet totus ut astris (?) un partes xvi divisi'.
Harley MS 2650, f 39v item 2 : Medical recipe

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Hierarchy:

032-002045828[2651]/040-001608998

Container:

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

39 folios.

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Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1150

End Date:

1199

Date Range:

2nd half of the 12th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment codex.

Dimensions: 210 x 130 mm (text space: 145/165 x 75/85 mm).

Foliation: ff. vi + 39. Contemporary quire numbers (in the centre of the lower margin of the verso of the last leaf of the quires); later medieval (?) quire signatures (in quire 1 ff. 1r-3r are foliated 'f.ii'-'f.iiii'; in quires 2-5 the first four leaves respectively are marked 'a', 'ai', 'aii', 'aiii', 'b'-'biii', etc.). f. 20r, which is of smaller dimensions and has been added by the scribe to accommodate an addition to the main text, is a re-used piece of parchment with a few lines of text in Insular minuscule (Welsh/Irish?, 10th century?), now on f. 20r.

Script: Protogothic. Uncrossed tironian ets.

Binding: Post-1600; 'Harleian' binding of gold-tooled red leather with marbled endpapers.

Custodial History:

Origin: France, N. (Normandy) or England, S.

Provenance:

Inscription: ‘Hic deficit (?) Codex imperfectus A. D. 1577’ (f. 33r).

Robert Burscough (b. 1650/51, d.1709), prebendary of Exeter in 1701, archdeacon of Barnstaple in 1703, rector of Cheriton Bishop in 1705; sold by his widow on 17 May 1715 to Robert Harley, along with other manuscripts (see Wright 1972, 87-88; Diary 1966). The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (d. 1724), 1st earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, and Edward Harley (d. 1741), 2nd earl of Oxford and Mortimer, book collector and patron of the arts.

Edward Harley bequeathed the library to his widow, Henrietta, née Cavendish Holles (d. 1755) during her lifetime and thereafter to their daughter, Margaret Cavendish Bentinck (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), II (1808), no. 2650.

C. Leonardi, ‘I codici di Marziano Capella’, Aevum 34 (1960), 1-99, 411-524 (pp. 76-77).

C. E. Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), p. 88.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)