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Harley MS 1
- Record Id:
- 040-001609319
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-001609319
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001442.0x000339
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1
- Title:
- Treatises on astronomy, astrology, mathematics and geometry
- Scope & Content:
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The manuscript includes:
Table of contents, f. 1v;
Alpetragius (Abu Ishaq al-Bitruji al-Ishbili), De motibus caelorum (ff. 2r-15v);
Thebit ben Corat, De hiis que indigent expositione antequam legatur Almagesti (ff. 16r-17r);
Thebit ben Corat, De figura sectore (ff. 17r-18v);
Thebit ben Corat, De anno solis (ff. 19r-22r);
Albumasar, De floribus astrorum (ff. 24r-30v);
Albumasar, De revolutionibus annorum (ff. 31r-40v);
‘Practica geometriae’ (ff. 41r-46v);
Petrus Philomena de Dacia, Expositio super Algorismum Iohannis de Sacro Bosco (ff. 47r-55v);
Robert the Englishman, Commentary on Iohannes de Sacro Bosco, Tractatus de sphaera (ff. 55v-63v);
Anonymous commentary on Iohannes de Sacro Bosco, Computus (ff. 64r-70v);
William of Aragon, Commentary on pseudo-Ptolemy, Centiloquium (ff. 70v-79v);
‘Ars algorismi de fractionibus’ (ff. 79v-80v);
Anonymous treatise on the soul (ff. 80v-85r);
John of Sicily, Scriptum super canones Arzachelis de tabulis Toletanis (ff. 86r-146r);
John de Jandun (?), Questio super epicyclis et eccentricis (ff. 146r-148v);
Questiones mathematicales, attributed to Iohannes de Sancto Amando (ff. 149r-160v).
A part of this manuscript (ff. 2r-46v) originally included a portion of Oxford, Corpus Christi College, MS 254, ff. 207r-212r.
Decoration:
Large puzzle initials in blue and red with pen-flourishing in the same colours (ff. 2r, 43r). Initials and paraphs in red or blue with pen-flourishing or penwork decoration in the other colour. Numerous marginal diagrams.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
Harley Science Project - Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-001609319 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 1 : Treatises on astronomy, astrology, mathematics and geometry - Contains:
- Harley MS 1, f 1v : Table of contents
Harley MS 1, ff 2r-15v : Alpetragius (Abu Ishaq al-Bitruji al-Ishbili), De motibus caelorum
Harley MS 1, ff 16r-17r : Thebit ben Corat, De hiis que indigent expositione antequam legatur Almagesti
Harley MS 1, ff 17r-18v : Thebit ben Corat, De figura sectore
Harley MS 1, ff 19r - 22r : Thebit ben Corat, De anno solis
Harley MS 1, ff 24r-30v : Albumasar, De floribus astrorum
Harley MS 1, ff 31r-40v : Albumasar, De revolutionibus annorum
Harley MS 1, ff 41r-46v : Practica geometriae
Harley MS 1, ff 47r-55v : Petrus Philomena de Dacia, Expositio super Algorismum Iohannis de Sacro Bosco
Harley MS 1, ff 55v-63v : Robert the Englishman, Commentary on Iohannes de Sacro Bosco, Tractatus de sphaera
Harley MS 1, ff 64r-70v : Commentary on Iohannes de Sacro Bosco, Computus.
Harley MS 1, ff 70v-79v : William of Aragon, Commentary on pseudo-Ptolemy, Centiloquium
Harley MS 1, ff 79v-80v : Ars algorismi de fractionibus
Harley MS 1, ff 80v-85r : Treatise on the soul
Harley MS 1, ff 86r-146r : John of Sicily, Scriptum super canones Arzachelis de tabulis Toletanis
Harley MS 1, ff 146r-148v : John de Jandun (?), Questio super epicyclis et eccentricis
Harley MS 1, ff 149r-160v : Questiones mathematicales, attributed to Iohannes de Sancto Amando
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- 032-002045828[0001]/040-001609319
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Harley_MS_1 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1245
- End Date:
- 1330
- Date Range:
- c 1250 - c 1324
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 265 x 205 mm
Foliation: ff. v + 160. Catchwords
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house binding with marbled endpapers
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
The Benedictine abbey of St Augustine, Canterbury: listed in its catalogue, no. 1147 (see Ker 1964 and Barker-Benfield 2008).
Johannes de London, a monk of St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury: inscribed 14th century 'Liber Johannis de Londoniis cum rosa' with an ink drawing of a rose-bush with three flowers in bloom (f. 47r).
John Dee (b. 1527, d. 1609), mathematician, astrologer, and antiquary: inscribed 'Joannes Dee 1557' (f 1v); added notes in his hand throughout; listed in his catalogue of 1583 (see Roberts and Watson, p. 114).
Sir Simonds d'Ewes (b.1602, d. 1650), 1st baronet, diarist, antiquary, and friend of Sir Robert Cotton (see Wright 1972).
Sir Simonds D’Ewes (d. 1722), 3rd baronet and grandson of the former: inherited and later sold the D’Ewes library to Robert Harley on 4 October 1705 for £450 (see Watson 1966).
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, née Cavendish 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), I (1808), no. 1.
Petri Philomeni de Dacia in Algorismum Vulgarem Johannis de Sacrobosco Commentarius, ed. by M. Curtye (Copenhagen, 1897), pp. 20-92.
Montague R. James, The Ancient Libraries of Canterbury and Dover (Cambridge: 1903), p. 520.
Montague R. James, List of manuscripts Formerly Owned by Dr. John Dee, with Preface and Identification (London: Supplement to the Bibliographical Society Transactions, 1921), p. 19, listed as C28.
Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books, ed. by Neil R. Ker, 2nd edn, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 3 (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), p. 44.
Paul Oskar Kristeller, Iter Italicum: Accedunt Alia Itinera: A Finding List of Uncatalogued or Incompletely Catalogued Humanistic Manuscripts of the Renaissance in Italian and other Libraries 7 vols (London: Warburg Institute; Leiden: Brill, 1963-1997), IV (1989), p. 154.
Andrew G. Watson, 'A St Augustine's Abbey Canterbury Manuscript Reconstructed: Trinity College Cambridge Ms. R.14.30 and British Library Mss. Egerton 823 and 840A', Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 6 (1975), 211-17.
Andrew G. Watson, 'An Identification of some Manuscripts owned by Dr. John Dee and Sir Simonds D'Ewes', The Library, 5th series, 13 (1958), 194-98 (p. 195, no. 5).
Andrew G. Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes (London: British Museum, 1966), no. A281.
The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by C. E. Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), I: 1715-1723, pp. xviii-xix.
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. 95, 126, 227.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)