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Harley MS 2688
- Record Id:
- 040-001612920
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-001612920
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001481.0x000299
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100059909473.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2688
- Title:
- A collection of fragments including Liutprand of Cremona, Antapodosis; a Miscellany; Quintus Horatius Flaccus Epodes; Quintus Horatius Flaccus Carmen saeculare; Quintus Horatius Flaccus Epistles; Quintus Horatius Flaccus Satires; Priscian, Institutiones grammaticae, Boethius, De musica
- Scope & Content:
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The manuscript is a composite miscellany made of five texts of different dates and origins (ff. 1-16; 17-22; 23-46; 47-54; 55-66), probably bound together after Edward Harley acquired the last part (ff. 55-66). Each text is separated by unfoliated parchment interleaves, which remain blank.
Contents:
ff. 1r-16v: Liudprand (b. c. 922, d. c. 972), bishop of Cremona, Antapodosis (Retribution), books 1-4 (imperfect).
ff. 17r-22v: Miscellany, originally forming the initial gathering of Harley MS 3095, a 10th-century manuscript of Boethius (b. 480, d. 524)'s works.
ff. 23-46v: Quintus Horatius Flaccus (b. 65 BC, d. 8 BC), Epodes (Epode), Carmen saeculare (Secular Hymn), Epistles (Letters) and Satires (Satires).
ff. 47r-54v: Priscian (fl. 500), Institutiones grammaticae (Institutes of Grammar), Books 4-5.
ff. 55r-66v: Boethius, De musica (On Music).
Decoration:
See the separate descriptions for Harley MS 2688, ff. 1-16; 17-22; 23-46; 47-54; 55-66.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- England and France 700-1200 Project
Greek Manuscripts
Harley Collection - Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-001612920 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 2688 : A collection of fragments including Liutprand of Cremona, Antapodosis; a Miscellany; Quintus Horatius Flaccus Epodes; Quintus… - Contains:
- Harley MS 2688, ff 1r-16v : Liudprand of Cremona, Antapodosis, (books 1-4) (imperfect)
Harley MS 2688, ff 17r-22v : A circular diagram of the winds; John Scotus Eriugena, epitaph for Hincmar of Reims; Greek and Latin grammatical…
Harley MS 2688, ff 23r-46v : Quintus Horatius Flaccus's works, including: Epodeae, Carmen saeculare; Epistulae and Satires (imperfect)
Harley MS 2688, ff 47r-54v : Priscian, Institutiones grammaticae (books 4-5)
Harley MS 2688, ff 55r-66v : Boethius, De musica (books 1-2)
Click here to View / search full list of parts of Harley MS 2688 - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[2689]/040-001612920
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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A parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100059909473.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
Latin - Scripts:
- Greek
Latin - Start Date:
- 0800
- End Date:
- 1199
- Date Range:
- 9th century-12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: varies.
Foliation: ff. 66 (+ 1 unfoliated modern parchment flyleaf at the beginning and at the end, + 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning); f. 66* is a medieval parchment flyleaf; modern blank parchment interleaves: 2 after ff. 16 and 22, 1 after f. 46, and 3 (2 modern and 1 medieval) interleaves after f. 54.
Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house, 19th century.
- Custodial History:
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Provenance:
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, inscribed as usual by their librarian, Humfrey Wanley, ‘3 die Augusti, A.D. 1724’ (f. 55r) and ‘20 die Octobris, A.D. 1725’ etc. (ff. 1r, 17r, 23r, 47r) and '13 die Augusti AD 1724' (f. 55r).
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.
- Information About Copies:
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- Publications:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-1812), II (1808), no. 2688.
G. Loewe and G. Goetz, Corpus Glossariorum Latinorum, 7 vols (Leipzig, 1888-1923), II, p. xxxiv.
[E. Maunde Thompson and George F. Warner], Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts in the British Museum, 2 vols (London: British Museum, 1881-1884), Part II: Latin (1884), p. 71.
Albert C. Clark, 'The Library of J. G. Graevius', The Classical Review, 5 (1891), 365-72 (pp. 367, 369, 370).
Thesauri hymnologici prosarium. Die Sequenzen des Thesaurus hymnologicus H. A. Daniels und anderer Sequenzenausgaben, Analecta hymnica medii aevi, 53-55, 3 vols (Leipzig: Reisland, 1911-1922), 1, pars I: Liturgische Prosen erster Epoche aus den Sequenzenschulen des Abendlandes, insbesondere die dem Notkerus Balbulus zugeschriebenen, nebst Skizze über den Ursprung der Sequenz: Auf Grund der Melodien aus den Quellen des 10.-16. Jahrhunderts, ed. by Clemens Blume and Henry Bannister, p. 312 no. 192.
Wilhelm Köhler, 'Die Karolingishen Miniaturen', in Zweiter Bericht über die Denkmäler Deutscher Kunst (Berlin: Reimer, 1912), pp. 52-77 (pp. 56-57).
Paul Lehmann, Mitteilungen aus Handschriften, 2, Sitzungsberichte der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philosophisch-historische Abteilung, 2 (Munich: Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften,1930), pp. 3-55 (pp. 18-20).
L. W. Jones, 'Pricking Manuscripts: The Instruments and their Significance', Speculum, 21 (1946) pp. 401-02.
A. C. Dionisotti, 'Greek Grammars and Dictionaries in Carolingian Europe', in The Sacred Nectar of the Greeks: The Study of Greek in the West in the Early Middle Ages, ed. by M. W. Herren (London, 1988), pp. 16, 17, 28, 38 n. 40.
The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by Cyril E. Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), II: 1723-1726, pp. 302 nn. 6 and 8, 303 n. 6, 304 n. 7, 385 n. 6.
Margaret Gibson, 'Priscian, "Institutiones grammaticae": A Handlist of Manuscripts', Scriptorium: Revue internationale des études relative aux manuscrits, 26 (1972), 105-24 (p. 114).
Cyril E. Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 169, 255, 367, 414.
Bernard Bischoff, Lorsch im Spiegel seiner Handschriften, Münchener Beiträge zur Mediävistik und Renaissance Forschung Beiheft (Munich: Arbeo-Gesellschaft, 1974), pp. 83-84 n. 42.
Marina Passalacqua, I Codici di Prisciano (Rome, 1978), no. 323.
Diane Bolton, 'Illustrations in Manuscripts of Boethius’ Works', in Boethius: His Life, Thought and Influence, ed. by Margaret Gibson (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1981), pp. 428-37 (p. 429).
David Ganz, 'A Tenth-Century Drawing of Philosophy visiting Boethius', in Boethius: His Life, Thought and Influence, ed. by Margaret Gibson (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1981), pp. 275-77, pl. VIII.
Birger Munk Olsen, L’Étude des auteurs classiques latins aux XIe et XIIe siècles, 3 vols (Paris: Centre national de la recherche scientifique, 1982-1989), I, p. 461, Horace B. 89.
Calvin M. Bower, 'Boethius' De Institutione Musica: A Handlist of Manuscripts', Scriptorium: Revue internationale des études relatives aux manuscrits, 42 (1988), 205-51 (pp. 220-21 no. 42).
Anna Carlotta Dionisotti, 'Greek Grammars and Dictionaries in Carolingian Europe', in The Sacred Nectar of the Greeks: The Study of Greek in the West in the Early Middle Ages, ed. by Michael W. Herren and Shirley A. Brown, King’s College London Medieval Studies, 2 (London: University of London King's College, 1988), pp. 1-57 (pp. 16, 17, 28, 38 n. 40, 55).
Mildred Bundy, 'St Dunstan's Classbook and its Frontispiece: Dunstan's Portrait and Autograph', in St Dunstan: His Life, Times and Cult, ed. by Nigel Ramsay and others (Woodbridge: Boydell, 1992), pp. 103-42 (p. 135 and n. 78).
Codices Boethiani: A Conspectus of Manuscripts of the Works of Boethius, ed. by M. T. Gibson and Lesley Smith, Warburg Institute Surveys and Texts, 25 (London: Warburg Institute, 1995- ), I: Great Britain and the Republic of Ireland, pp. 141-42, no. 120.
Joachim M. Plotzek, 'Zur Geschichte der Kölner Dombibliothek', in Glaube und Wissen im Mittelalter: Die Kölner Dombibliothek. Ausstellung, Erzbischöfliches Diözesanmuseum, Köln, 7 August - 15 November 1998, ed. by Joachim M. Plotzek and others (Munich: Hirmer, 1998), pp. 15-64 (p. 34).
Anneli Luhtala, 'Early Medieval Commentary on Priscian’s Institutiones grammaticae', Cahiers de l'Institut du Moyen-Âge Grec et Latin, 71 (2000), 115-88 (p. 132).
Bernhard Bischoff, Katalog der festländischen Handschriften des neunten Jahrhunderts, 3 vols (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1998-2014), II (2004): Laon-Paderborn, ed. by Birgit Ebersperger, p. 114 (no. 2448).
Rolf Bergmann and Stefanie Stricker, Katalog der althochdeutschen und altsächsischen Glossenhandschriften, 6 vols (Berlin: Walter De Gruyter, 2005), II, pp. 893-95 no. 422b (I-II) [with further bibliography].
Henry Mayr-Harting, Church and Cosmos in Early Ottonian Germany: The View from Cologne (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), p. 201.
Pablo A. Cavallero, La antapódosis o Retribución de Liutprando de Cremona, Nueva Roma 27 (Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigationes Cientificas, 2007), manuscript 'H' [edition of the text].
Pascale Hummel, De Lingua Graeca: Histoire de l'histoire de la langue grecque (Bern: Peter Lang, 2007), p. 523.
Adrian Papahagi, Boethiana Medievalia.: A Collection of Studies on the Early Medieval Fortune (Bucharest: Zeta Books, 2010), p. 58.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Notes:
- This manuscript is part of The Polonsky Foundation England and France Project: Manuscripts from the British Library and the Bibliothèque nationale de France, 700-1200.