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Harley MS 5402

Record Id:

040-001616319

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-001616319

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001515.0x000285

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 5402

Title:

Astrological miscellany

Scope & Content:

Includes:

A folio from an antiphonary (ff. 1*r-2*v);

Pseudo-Ptolemy, Iudicia (ff. 1r-15r);

Astrological tables (ff. 15v-16r);

5 works of the Arabic author Zahel (Sahl ibn Bishr al-Isra’ili), translated into Latin:

Introductorius ad scienciam iudiciorum astrorum in interrogationibus (ff. 17r-23v);

Quinquaginta praecepta (ff. 23v-26v);

De interrogationibus (ff. 26v-54v);

Liber electionum (ff. 54v-64r);

De significatore temporis (ff. 64r-68v);

The collection of Zahel and Pseudo-Ptolemy's Iudicia are two of the earliest Arabic astrological texts translated into Latin.

Unidentified astrological text (ff. 68v-69r);

Added notes (ff. 69r-69v);

Added notes (ff. 70r-70v);

Astrological text (ff. 71r-80v);

Messahala (Masha ’Allah Ibn Athari), De receptionibus siue Liber coniunctionis et receptionis (ff. 81r-98v);

Messahala (Masha ’Allah Ibn Athari), De significationibus planetarum in natiuitate (ff. 99r-103v);

Astrological text (ff. 103v-104v).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection
Harley Science Project

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-001616319

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 5402 : Astrological miscellany

Contains:

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Hierarchy:

032-002045828[5404]/040-001616319

Container:

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

104 folios.

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Languages:

Italian
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1160

End Date:

1340

Date Range:

1160-1340

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment codex.

Dimensions: 210 x 150 mm (text space: 165 x 105 mm).

Foliation: viii + 1* + 2* + 104 (ff. 1* and 2* are medieval parchment flyleaves; all unfoliated flyleaves are modern paper leaves).

Script: Protogothic (ff. 1r-69v); Gothic (ff. 70r-104v). Written by several hands (ff. 1v-69r; 69r-69v; 70r-70v; 71r-104v).

Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house binding; rebound in 1969. Remainings of the older, post-1600 brown leather tooled and gilded are pasted inside the present covers.

Custodial History:

Origin: ff. 1r-70v: Italy (Lucca?); ff. 71r-104v: Italy, N.

Provenance:

Added note in an Italian hand: 'Vi si promissio tibi facta 1421 mense 7bris (Septembris) hora 12^a diei circa occasum tenuit veritatem et erat 25 dies mensis et erat dies Jovis hora mercurii'

Nicholas of Cusa [Nikolaus von Kues] (b. 1401, d. 1464), bishop of St Brixen in Tyrol in 1450, 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: his annotations (ff. 29r-30r, 31r, 42r, 42v, 45v, 49v, 50r).

The Hospital of St Nicholas, Kues, on the Moselle, Germany: inscribed, 'iste est liber hospital[is] s[an]cti Nicolai p[ro]pe Cusa[m]' (f. 1r).

Nathaniel Noel (fl. 1681, d. c. 1753), bookseller, employed by Edward Harley for buying books and manuscripts chiefly on the Continent, where his agent was George Suttie (see Wright 1972): sold to Harley on 18 January 1724.

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 ‘18 die Januarij, A.D. 1723/4’ (f. 1*).

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:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), II (1808), no. 5402.

Remigio Sabbadini, ‘Niccolò da Cusa e I conciliari di Basilea alla scoperta dei codici’, Rendiconti della Reale Accademia dei Lincei, 20 (1911), 3-40 (p. 40 n. 2).

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. 20, 27).

Berthold L. Ullman, 'Manuscripts of Nicholas of Cues,' Speculum: A Journal of Mediaeval Studies, 13 (1938), 194-197 (p. 196).

Ernst Zinner, 'Aus alten Handschriften', Bericht der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft Bamburg, 38 (1962), 8-57 (p. 41). [with a detailed list of contents]

'Kritisches Verzeichnis der londoner Handschriften aus dem Besitz des Nikolaus von Kues', Mitteilungen und Forschungsbeitrage der Cusanus-Gessellschaft, 3 (Mainz: Matthias-Grunewald, 1963), pp. 16-100 (pp. 81-84).

The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by Cyril Ernest Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), II: 1723-1726, p. 254 n. 10.

Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 121, 254.

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-Gesellshaft, 17 (1986), 21-56 (p. 43).

Charles Burnett, 'Latin Alphanumerical Notation and Annotation in Italian, in the Twelfth Century: MS London, British Library, Harley 5402', in Sic itur ad astra: Studien zur Geschichte der Mathematik und Naturwissenschaften: Festschrift für den Arabisten Paul Kunitzsch zum 70. Geburtstag, ed. by Menso Folkerts, Paul Kunitzsch, Richard Lorch (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2000), 76-90.

David Juste, Les Alchandreana primitifs: étude sur les plus anciens traités astrologiques latines d'prigine arabe (X siecle), Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, 152 (Leiden: Brill, 2007), pp. 273-74.

Elly Dekker, Illustrating the Phaenomena: Celestial Cartography in Antiquity and the Middle Ages (Oxford: University Press, 2013), p. 356.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

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Or 12802