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Harley MS 3734
- Record Id:
- 040-001609153
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-001609153
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001442.0x0002f1
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3734
- Title:
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Toledan tables
- Scope & Content:
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The manuscript includes:
Table for calculating dates (f. 1v);
Fragment of a document 1350 (f. 2r);
Diagrams of constellations (f. 2v);
Toledan tables (ff. 3r-38v);
‘De proiectionibus radiorum planetorum’ (f. 39r-39v);
Toledan tables (ff. 40r-41v);
Table for calculating dates (f. 42r).
The astronomical tables on ff. 3r-38v, 40r-41v originally constituted this book. The remaining items are later additions.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
Harley Science Project - Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-001609153", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 3734: Toledan tables" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "041-001609227", "parent" : "040-001609153", "text" : "Harley MS 3734, f 1v: Table for calculating dates" },{ "id" : "041-001609228", "parent" : "040-001609153", "text" : "Harley MS 3734, f 2r: Fragment of a document" },{ "id" : "041-001609229", "parent" : "040-001609153", "text" : "Harley MS 3734, f 2v: Diagrams of constellations" },{ "id" : "041-001609230", "parent" : "040-001609153", "text" : "Harley MS 3734, ff 3r-38v: Toledan tables" },{ "id" : "041-001609231", "parent" : "040-001609153", "text" : "Harley MS 3734, ff 39r-39v: De proiectionibus radiorum planetorum" },{ "id" : "041-001609232", "parent" : "040-001609153", "text" : "Harley MS 3734, ff 40r-41v: Toledan tables" },{ "id" : "041-001609233", "parent" : "040-001609153", "text" : "Harley MS 3734, f 42r: Table for calculating dates" }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-001609153 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3734 : Toledan tables - Contains:
- Harley MS 3734, f 1v : Table for calculating dates
Harley MS 3734, f 2r : Fragment of a document
Harley MS 3734, f 2v : Diagrams of constellations
Harley MS 3734, ff 3r-38v : Toledan tables
Harley MS 3734, ff 39r-39v : De proiectionibus radiorum planetorum
Harley MS 3734, ff 40r-41v : Toledan tables
Harley MS 3734, f 42r : Table for calculating dates
Click here to View / search full list of parts of Harley MS 3734 - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[3735]/040-001609153
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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42 folios.
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Harley_MS_3734 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1250
- End Date:
- 1499
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 13th century-15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment codex.
Dimensions: 300/5 x 220 mm (text space: 235 x 165 mm).
Foliation: ff. x + 42.
Script: Gothic.
Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house binding; rebound in 1971. The gold-tooled brown leather covers and spine of a previous British Museum binding are pasted inside the present covers and on f ii.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Spain, Central (Toledo).
Provenance:
Nicholas of Cusa [Nicholaus von Kues, or Nicholas Cusanus] (b. 1401, d. 1464), theologian, bishop of St. Brixen in Tyrol in 1450 and cardinal in 1449, founder of the hospital of St Nicholas at Cues on the Mosel: left his entire library to the hospital in his last will dated 6 August 1464 (see Wright 1972).
The Hospital of St Nicholas, Cues on the Moselle: inscribed, 'Liber hospitalis sancti Nicolai prope cusam' (partially effaced) (f. 3r).
Nathaniel Noel (d. c. 1753), bookseller, employed by Edward Harley for buying books and manuscripts chiefly on the Continent, where his agent was George Suttie: purchased by Harley in July/August of 1717 (see Wright 1972; Hallauer 1986).
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:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London, 1808-12), III (1808), no. 3734.
Remigio Sabbadini, ‘Niccolò da Cusa e I conciliari di Basilea alla scoperta dei codici’, Rendiconti della Reale Accademia dei Lincei, 20 (1911), 3-40 (pp. 39-40, n. 2).
Paul Lehmann, Mitteilungen aus Handschriften, 2, Sitzungsberichte der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philosophisch-historische Abteilung, 2 (Munich, 1930), pp. 3-55 (pp. 20, 25).
Berthold Louis Ullman, 'Manuscripts of Nicholas of Cues', Studies in the Italian Renaissance, Storia e Letteratura, 51 (Rome, 1955), pp. 357-63 (p. 362).
Rudolf Haubst, 'Kritisches Verzeichnis der Londoner Handschriften aus dem Besitz des Nikolaus von Kues', Mitteilungen und Forschungsbeiträge der Cusanus-Gesellschaft, 3 (1963), 16-100 (pp. 79-81).
Alois Krchnak, 'Die Herkunft der astronomischen Handschriften und Instrumente des Nikolaus von Kues', Mitteilungen und Forschungsbeiträge der Cusanus-Gesellschaft, 3 (1963), 109-80 (pp. 149-50, 176).
Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London, 1972), pp. 121, 253-54.
Hermann J. Hallauer, 'Habent sua fata libelli. Von der Mosel zur Themse: Handschriften des St. Nikolaus-Hospitals in der Bibliotheca Harleiana', Mitteilungen und Forschungsbeiträge der Cusanus-Gesellschaft, 17 (1986), 21-56 (pp. 29, 43).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)