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Harley MS 3092
- Record Id:
- 040-001612793
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-001612793
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001481.0x000264
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3092
- Title:
- Hrabanus Maurus, De universo seu De rerum naturis and De computo
- Scope & Content:
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The manuscript includes two works by Hrabanus Maurus, De universo seu De rerum naturis (ff. 2r-28r) and De computo (ff. 29r-39v), with an added table of contents (f. 1r).
Decoration: Chapters, books and paragraphs start with bigger initials.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
Harley Science Project - Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-001612793", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 3092: Hrabanus Maurus, De universo seu De rerum naturis and De computo" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "041-001612830", "parent" : "040-001612793", "text" : "Harley MS 3092, f 1r: Table of contents" },{ "id" : "041-001612831", "parent" : "040-001612793", "text" : "Harley MS 3092, ff 2r-28r: Hrabanus Maurus, De universo seu De rerum naturis" },{ "id" : "041-001612832", "parent" : "040-001612793", "text" : "Harley MS 3092, ff 29r-39v: Hrabanus Maurus, De computo" }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-001612793 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3092 : Hrabanus Maurus, De universo seu De rerum naturis and De computo - Contains:
- Harley MS 3092, f 1r : Table of contents
Harley MS 3092, ff 2r-28r : Hrabanus Maurus, De universo seu De rerum naturis
Harley MS 3092, ff 29r-39v : Hrabanus Maurus, De computo
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- 032-002045828[3093]/040-001612793
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 39 folios.
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Harley_MS_3092 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1100
- End Date:
- 1149
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment codex.
Dimensions: 270 x 190 mm (text space: 230 x 170 mm).
Foliation: ff. iv + 39.
Script: Protogothic. Written in a small glossing script. According to Lehmann (1930), the abbreviation for autem, est, et, and hoc are typical of Fulda.
Binding: British Musuem/British Library in-house binding.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Germany.
The title 'lib[er]Rabani de terra. Terra e[st] i[n] medio q[ui] ethymologiarum d[icitu]r et et[iam] / intitulat[ur] /eiusdem de numeris et compotu propositionibus', early13th century (f. 1r), with a shelfmark '.6 .P.' written below, according to Lehmann (1930) of Trier 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: written in his hand 'Prima pars huius Rabani ethymologiarum habetur Brugis et vidi / ad Sanctum Donatianum in libraria et credo etiam Wormacie in ecclesia maiori et Spire et Magunciis', 15th century (f. 1r); probably left with his entire library to the hospital in his last will dated 6 August 1464.
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), II (1808), no. 3092.
Paul Lehmann, 'Mitteilungen aus Handschriften', II, in Sitzungsberichte der Bayerischen Academie der Wissenschaften, Philosophisch-historische Abteilung (1930), 1-55 (pp. 23-24).
B. L. Ullman, 'Manuscripts of Nicholas of Cues', Speculum, 13 (1938), 194-197 (p. 196).
Elisabeth Heyse, Hrabanus Maurus, Enzyclopädie ‘De rerum naturis’ (Munich, 1969), p. 3.
J. Hallauer von Hermann, 'Habet sua fata libelli. Von der Mosel zur Themse: Handschriften des St. Nicholaus-Hospital in der Bibliotheca Harleiana', Mitteilungen und Forschungsbeiträge der Cusanus-Gesellshaft, 17 (1986), 21-56 (p. 42).
'Rabanus Maurus, De rerum naturis: A Provisional Checklist of Manuscripts', Manuscripta, 33 (1989) 109-18.
William Schipper, ‘The Earliest Manuscripts of Rabanus Maurus’ De rerum naturis (Karlsruhe, Badische Landesbibliothek, MS AUF. 68 and Vienna, Osterreichische Nationalbibliothek MS 121), in Pre-Modern Encyclopedic Texts: Proceedings of the Second Comers Congress, Groningen, 1-4 July 1996, ed. by Peter Binkley (Leiden: Brill, 1996), pp 363-78 (p. 363).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)