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Harley MS 3814 A
- Record Id:
- 040-001616539
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-001616539
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001515.0x000397
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3814 A
- Title:
- Astronomical and astrological miscellany
- Scope & Content:
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The manuscript is the first volume of two. It is composed of four parts: I (ff. 1r-10v); II (ff. 11r-89v), III (ff. 90r-104v), and (ff. 105r-140v). Parts I and II were probaby bound together at an early date and formed a separate volume with ff. 1r-2v and 88r-89v + 1 as flyleaves. Parts III and IV were probably also bound together. The second volume is a separate manuscript of a different date and origin.
The first volume includes:
Computistical treatise (ff. 3v-10r);
Johannes de Sacro Bosco, Algorismus (ff. 11r-22v);
Johannes de Sacro Bosco, Tractatus de sphaera (ff. 23r-43r);
Johannes de Sacro Bosco, Computus (ff. 43v-80v);
Calendar (ff. 81r-86v);
Tractatus de septem planetas with other texts (ff. 90r-104v);
A tract on divination (ff. 105r-139r).
The second volume, now Harley 3814B contains a prayer book, imperfect (ff. 1r-122v).
Decoration:
Part II: Large puzzle initials in red and blue at the beginning of each the text (ff. 11r, 23r, 43v). Initials in blue with red pen-flourishing or in red with blue pen-flourishing. Paraphs in red or blue. 7 circular diagrams in red, blue and yellow (ff. 23v, 45r, 49r, 56v, 58v, 62r, 74v).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-001616539", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 3814 A: Astronomical and astrological miscellany" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "041-001616538", "parent" : "040-001616539", "text" : "Harley MS 3814 A, ff 3v-10r: Computistical treatise" },{ "id" : "041-001616541", "parent" : "040-001616539", "text" : "Harley MS 3814 A, ff 11r-22v: Johannes de Sacrobosco, Algorismus" },{ "id" : "041-001616542", "parent" : "040-001616539", "text" : "Harley MS 3814 A, ff 23r-43r: Johannes de Sacro Bosco, Tractatus de sphaera" },{ "id" : "041-001616543", "parent" : "040-001616539", "text" : "Harley MS 3814 A, ff 43v-80r: Johannes de Sacro Bosco, Computus" },{ "id" : "041-001616544", "parent" : "040-001616539", "text" : "Harley MS 3814 A, ff 81r-86v: Calendar" },{ "id" : "041-001616546", "parent" : "040-001616539", "text" : "Harley MS 3814 A, ff 90r-104v: Tractatus de septem planetas and other texts" },{ "id" : "041-001616547", "parent" : "040-001616539", "text" : "Harley MS 3814 A, ff 105r-139r: A tract on divination" }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-001616539 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3814 A : Astronomical and astrological miscellany - Contains:
- Harley MS 3814 A, ff 3v-10r : Computistical treatise
Harley MS 3814 A, ff 11r-22v : Johannes de Sacrobosco, Algorismus
Harley MS 3814 A, ff 23r-43r : Johannes de Sacro Bosco, Tractatus de sphaera
Harley MS 3814 A, ff 43v-80r : Johannes de Sacro Bosco, Computus
Harley MS 3814 A, ff 81r-86v : Calendar
Harley MS 3814 A, ff 90r-104v : Tractatus de septem planetas and other texts
Harley MS 3814 A, ff 105r-139r : A tract on divination
Click here to View / search full list of parts of Harley MS 3814 A - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[7676]/040-001616539
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 140 folios.
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Harley_MS_3814_a (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English, Middle
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1230
- End Date:
- 1399
- Date Range:
- 1230-1399
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment codex.
Dimensions: ff. 3v-10r: 140 x 95 mm (text space: 75 x 50 mm); ff. 11r-86v: 140 x 95 mm (text space: 70 x 50 mm); ff. 90r-139r: 125 x 95 mm (text space: 80-105 x 60-70 mm).
Foliation: ff. vi + 140 + 1 unfoliated parchment leaf after f. 10 and 1 after 86. Catchwords.
Script: ff. 3v-139r: Gothic.
Binding: British Museum /British Library in-house binding.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
ff. 3v-10r: possibly France
ff. 11r-86v: France
ff. 90r-104v: England
ff. 105r-139r: England
Provenance:
vol. 1: part I -II ( ff. 1r-89v)
Erased ownership inscription 'fratris Jacobi...' ?14th century (f. 3r).
Parchment pieces written in a ?14th-century hand: one probably referring to debts owed by 'Amic[?] ?Gemis' and 'Margaret Husscher', the other inscribed 'pro a][n]i[m]a domini symoni de la mor[?], pro a[n]i[m]a domine Joh[ann]e de la mor[?], pro a[n]i[m]a pet[ro]nille de Ketelberwe, pro a[n]i[m]a joh[an]is le bert' (pasted onto f. 1). Added table and a note with the date 'anno domini 1255', 13th century (f. 2v).
Erased inscription (f. 89r).
Girolamo dell'Abaco and Lodovico dell'Abaco, sons of Pietro dell'Abaco, probably the Sienese mathematician and estimator (active 1457-1486), 15th century: may have inherited the book from their father: Inscribed in Italian, 'Questo libro fie dinoi Girolamo et lodovico di m[aestr]o piet[r]o dellabaco et qui e elnost[r]o segnio' (f. 89r).Inscribed in a medieval hand monogram 'P C' combined with a cross (f. 89r).
Added doodled drawings, ?16th century (f. 88v).
vol. 1: ff. 105r-140vr
Added fish drawn in the margin (f. 109v).
Added tables and notes, 15th century (ff. 139r-140v).
All parts:
Acquired as one item, Harley MS 3814, now divided into two volumes as Harley MS 3814 A and Harley MS 3814 B.
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 possibly by Edward Harley ‘Janu. 1728/9’ (f. [ii] in vol. 2: Harley 3814B).
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. 3814.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)