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Harley MS 3631
- Record Id:
- 040-001617654
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-001617654
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000109.0x000348
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3631
- Title:
- Albumasar (Abu Ma‘shar Ja‘far), Works on astronomy
- Scope & Content:
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Albumasar (Abu Ma‘shar Ja‘far), Maius introductorium in scientia astrorum, translated by John of Seville (ff. 1r-57r);
Albumasar (Abu Ma‘shar Ja‘far), De magnis coniunctionibus, translated by John of Seville (ff. 58r-110r);
Albumasar (Abu Ma‘shar Ja‘far), De reuolutionibus annorum, translated by John of Seville (ff. 110r-111v);
Autograph mathematical notes of Nicholas of Cusa (f. 112r);
Accounts from the collegiate church of St. Florin, Koblenz (ff. 112v-113r).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
Harley Science Project - Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-001617654", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 3631: Albumasar (Abu Ma‘shar Ja‘far), Works on astronomy" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "041-001617662", "parent" : "040-001617654", "text" : "Harley MS 3631, ff 1r-57r: Albumasar (Abu Ma‘shar Ja‘far), Maius introductorium in scientia astrorum, translated by John of Seville" },{ "id" : "041-001617667", "parent" : "040-001617654", "text" : "Harley MS 3631, ff 58r-110r: Albumasar (Abu Ma‘shar Ja‘far), De magnis coniunctionibus, translated by John of Seville" },{ "id" : "041-001617668", "parent" : "040-001617654", "text" : "Harley MS 3631, ff 110r-111v: Albumasar (Abu Ma‘shar Ja‘far), De reuolutionibus annorum, translated by John of Seville" },{ "id" : "041-001617670", "parent" : "040-001617654", "text" : "Harley MS 3631, f 112r: Nicholas of Cusa, Autograph mathematical notes" },{ "id" : "041-001617671", "parent" : "040-001617654", "text" : "Harley MS 3631, ff 112v-113r: Accounts from the collegiate church of St. Florin, Koblenz" }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-001617654 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3631 : Albumasar (Abu Ma‘shar Ja‘far), Works on astronomy - Contains:
- Harley MS 3631, ff 1r-57r : Albumasar (Abu Ma‘shar Ja‘far), Maius introductorium in scientia astrorum, translated by John of Seville
Harley MS 3631, ff 58r-110r : Albumasar (Abu Ma‘shar Ja‘far), De magnis coniunctionibus, translated by John of Seville
Harley MS 3631, ff 110r-111v : Albumasar (Abu Ma‘shar Ja‘far), De reuolutionibus annorum, translated by John of Seville
Harley MS 3631, f 112r : Nicholas of Cusa, Autograph mathematical notes
Harley MS 3631, ff 112v-113r : Accounts from the collegiate church of St. Florin, Koblenz
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- 032-002045828[3633]/040-001617654
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 113 folios
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Harley_MS_3631 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1171
- End Date:
- 1464
- Date Range:
- 1171-1464
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment codex; ff. 112 and 113 are paper leaves.
Dimensions: ff. 1r-57r: 35 x 230 mm (text space: 255 x 155 mm); ff. 58r-110r: 340 x 225 mm (text space: 220 x 135 mm); ff. 112r-113v: 220 x 145 mm (text space: 165 x 105 mm).
Foliation: ff. viii + 113.
Script: ff. 1r-110r: Protogothic; ff. 110r-111v: Gothic; ff. 112r-113v: Gothic cursive. Written above top line. Colophon of ff. 1r-57r: 'Scriptus est liber iste anno domini Iesu Christi 1171o mense aprili' (f. 57v).
Collation: i1r-8v, ii9r-16v, iii17r-25v, iv26r-33v, v34r-41v, vi42r-49v, vii50r-57v, viii58r-67v, ix68r-77v, x78r-87v, xi88r-97v, xii98r-107v, xiii108r-111v; ff. 1r-57r: quire numbers in red in the upper margin; ff. 58r-110r: separate quire number added in the upper margin.
Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house binding; covers of the former 'Harleian' binding of brown leather tolled and gilded pasted in the inside cover of the present binding.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: ff. 1r-111v: Italy, N.; ff. 112r-113v: Germany.
Provenance:
Inscribed: 'Introductorium magnus Albumasari in astrologia. Valet lib. [erased] et sunt carte 57. Et conspectabant physici confraccolis (?) [erased] et constitit 1330 mense aprilis lib.'
The Collegiate church of St Florin, Koblenz: accounts of 1425 and 1431 added on paper leaves (ff. 112v-113r).
Nicholas of Cusa [Nicholaus von Kues, or Nicholas Cusanus] (1401 – 11 August 1464), theologian, bishop of St. Brixen in Tyrol in 1450, cardinal in 1449: his autograph notes (f. 112r); given by him in his last will, dated 6 August 1464, with other books from his library to St Nicholas hospital, founded by him in Cues in 1451: inscribed 'Liber hospitalis sancti Nicolai prope Cusam' (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: possibly sold to Edward Harley in 1717/18, together with other manuscripts formerly in the hospital library (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.
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:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), II (1808), no. 3631.
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.
Herman Hallauer, 'Cod. Harl 3631 ubd 3915', Mitteilungen und Forschungsbeiträge der Cusanus-Gesellschaft, 10 (1973), 94-103 (pp. 94-99).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)