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Harley MS 2510

Record Id:
040-001617451
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
040-001617451
MDARK:
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Format:
ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2510
Title:
Miscellany of texts on rhetoric, astrology and mathematics.
Scope & Content:

The manuscript is composed of 4 parts (ff. 1r-123v; 124r-131v; 132r-135v; 136r-167v).

Part 1 is a palimpsest in late Carolingian script and the text and some of the coloured initials are still partly visible (ff. 1r-123v). f. 123 is the end flyleaf of part 1.

Contents:

Marcus Tullius Cicero, De inventione (ff. 1r-64r);

Rhetorica ad Herennium (ff. 65r-122r);

Martianus Capella, De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii (book VIII) (ff. 124r-131v);

Thierry de Chartres, Commentary on the book VII of Martianus Capella, De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii (ff. 132r- 135v);

Boethius, De institutione arithmetica (ff. 136r-167v).

Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Harley Collection
Harley Science Project
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Hierarchy Record Ids:
032-002045828
040-001617451
Is part of:
Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

 

Harley MS 2510 : Miscellany of texts on rhetoric, astrology and mathematics.
Contains:
Harley MS 2510, ff 1r-64r : Marcus Tullius Cicero, De inventione.
Harley MS 2510, ff 65r-122r : Rhetorica ad Herennium
Harley MS 2510, ff 124r-131v : Martianus Capella, De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii (book 8).
Harley MS 2510, ff 132r-135v : Thierry of Chartres, Commentary on Martianus Capella, De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii, book 7.
Harley MS 2510, ff 136r-167v : Boethius, De institutione arithmetica.

 

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Hierarchy:
032-002045828[2511]/040-001617451
Container:
View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
Record Type (Level):
File
Extent:
167 folios.
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Languages:
Latin
Scripts:
Latin
Start Date:
1100
End Date:
1240
Date Range:
Early 12th century-early 13th century
Era:
CE
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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment codex.

Dimensions: ff. 1r-123v: 235/245 x 160/170 mm (text space: 190 x 105 mm); 124r-131v: 205 x 145 mm (text space: 140 x 80 mm); 132r-135v: 240 x 160 mm (text space: 210 x 150 mm); 136r-167v: 220 x 135 mm (text space: 160 x 95 mm).

Foliation: ff. vii + i + 167 (f. i is a paper flyleaf). Quire marks (mark on the verso of the last leaf of the quire) in part 1 (ff. 1r-123v).

Script: ff. 1r-123v: Protogothic; 124r-131v: Gothic; 132r-135v: Gothic; 136r-167v: Protogothic.

Binding: BM/BL in-house binding.

Custodial History:

Origin:

ff. 1r-123v: Italy, Northern or Central;

ff. 124r-131v: France

132r-135v: France

136r-167v: Southern France or Italy.

Provenance:

A Dominican convent at Chartres, 13th century: inscribed 'Ista retorica est fratrum predicatorum carnotensis' (f. 123v), other ownership inscriptions related to the Chartres convent (ff. 124r, 132r).

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 this manuscript to Edward Harley in August 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 ‘13 die mensis Augusti, A.D. 1724’ (f. 1r).

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. 2510.

O. Heiming, 'Ein 'Fusionniertes' Gregorianum und ein Ambrosiano-Benedictum: Zwei Palimpsestsalcramentare im B. M. Harleian 2510', Ephemerides Liturgicae, 44 (1950), 238-73.

E. Dekkers and E. Gaars, 'Clovis Patrum Latinorum', in Sacris erudiri: Jaarboek voor Godsdienstwetenschappen, III (Steenbrugge, 1951), no. 1910.

Robert Amiet, 'La tradition manuscrite du missel ambrosien', Scriptorium, 14 (1960), 31-32.

Claudio Leonardi, 'I codici di Marziano Capella', Aevum, 34 (1960), no. 99, pp. 72, 75-76.

Guillaume de Conches. Glosae super Platonem, ed. by E. Jeanneau (Paris, 1965), pp. 35-36 [concerning ff. 132-135v].

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. 304 n. 7.

Ferdinando Dell'Oro, 'Il sacramentario di Ariberto', Ephemerides liturgicae, 74 (1960), p. 35 n. 252.

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. 103, 253, 255.

Romuald Mattmann, 'Einige Handschriften mit Ciceros 'De Inventione' aus dem 9-11 Jahrhundert', Giornale Italiano di Filologia, 27 (1975), 282-305 (p. 285).

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. 209 no. C. 238 [part 1].

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, no. 113, pp. 136-37.

Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)