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Harley MS 3892

Record Id:

040-001617418

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-001617418

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000109.0x0002ba

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Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 3892

Title:

Miscellaneous texts on rhetoric, grammar, geometry and divination

Scope & Content:

Miscellaneous and composite volume made of 5 small manuscripts written by different scribes (ff. 1r-8v; 9r-16v; 17r-24v; 25r-42v; 43r-58v).

Includes:

Pseudo-Boethius, De disciplina scholarium, imperfect (ff. 1r-8v);

De scholastica disciplina liber scilicet grammatica, imperfect (ff. 9r-16v);

Treatise on geometry in Italian, incipit: 'Geometria e una de le septe arti liberali' (ff. 17r-24v);

Horace, Ars poetica (ff. 25r-34r);

Horace, Epistolae (ff. 34v-40r);

Bernardus Silvestris, Experimentarius (ff. 43r-58v).

Ff. 1-8 are a palimpsest: the under-text is a Latin text written in two columns by a 14th-century Italian hand.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection
Harley Science Project

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-001617418

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 3892 : Miscellaneous texts on rhetoric, grammar, geometry and divination

Contains:

Harley MS 3892, ff 1r-8v : Pseudo-Boethius, De disciplina scholarium
Harley MS 3892, ff 9r-16v : De scholastica disciplina liber scilicet grammatica
Harley MS 3892, ff 17r-24v : Treatise on geometry
Harley MS 3892, ff 25r-34r : Horace, Ars poetica
Harley MS 3892, ff 34v-40r : Horace, Epistolae
Harley MS 3892, ff 43r-58v : Bernardus Silvestris, Experimentarius

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Hierarchy:

032-002045828[3884]/040-001617418

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

58 folios.

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Languages:

Italian
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1400

End Date:

1454

Date Range:

1400-1454

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment codex.

Dimensions: 180 x 135 mm (text space: 120 x 70 mm).

Foliation: ff. viii + 58

Script: Gothic.

Binding: British Museum/Bristish Library in-house binding; rebound in 1989.

Custodial History:

Origin: Italy.

Provenance:

Two notes dated 1454 (ff. 41v, 42r).

ff. 1-42 originally bound by 'Julianus olim filius dominici de daris': his inscription dated 8 October (?) 1482 (f. 41).

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: sold to Edward Harley on 18 Jan. 1723/4 (Wright and Wright 1966; Wright 1972).

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 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), III (1808), no. 3892.

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, pp. 241 n. 11, 244-45.

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. 254, 437.

Charles Burnett, 'What is the Experimentarius of Bernardus Silvestris?: A Preliminary Survey of the Material', Archives d'histoire doctrinale et littéraire du moyen âge, 44 (1977); reprinted in Charles Burnett, Magic and Divination in the Middle Ages, Variorum Collected Studies Series, 557 (Aldershot: Variorum, 1996), pp. 79-125 (p. 101).

Geoffrey L. Bursill-Hall, A Census of Medieval Latin Grammatical Manuscripts, Grammatica Speculativa: Sprachtheorie und Logik des Mittelalters, 4 (Stuttgart: Frommann-Holzboog, 1981), p. 118 no.142.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)