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Harley MS 3199

Record Id:

040-001779698

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-001779698

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000195.0x00009a

LARK:

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Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 3199

Title:

Collection of computistical and musical texts

Scope & Content:

The manuscript is composed of two independent parts (ff. 2r-94v and 95r-126v). The first part is a miscellany of treatises relating to computus and music, including:

Helperic of Auxerre, Computus (ff. 2r-55v);

Guido of Arezzo, De Constitutionibus in Musica (ff. 55v-56r);

Guido of Arezzo, Praefatio in Antiphonarium (ff. 56v-58r);

Guido of Arezzo, Epistola de cantu ignoto (Epistola ad Michaelem ) (ff. 58v-65r);

Musica enchiriadis, attributed to Hoger of Laon, excerpt (ff. 65r-70v);

A text on computus (ff. 71r-74r);

Guido of Arezzo, De tonis (ff. 74r-79r);

Guido of Arezzo, Micrologus (ff. 79r-88v);

Office of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary (ff. 89r-91r);

Guido of Arezzo, Micrologus (ff. 91v-94v).

Includes musical notation: alphabetic (A-G, a-g) neumes and neumes on staff (C, F, A clefs) (ff. 59v-94v) and diagrams (ff. 56r, 82r, 83r, 84r).

Decoration:

Rubrics in red. Initials highlighted in red. Contemporary marginal drawing of a horse (?) in red (f. 90r).

The second part includes 'Liber de infantia Christi' (ff. 95r-126v).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection
Harley Science Project

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-001779698

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 3199 : Collection of computistical and musical texts

Contains:

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Hierarchy:

032-002045828[3200]/040-001779698

Container:

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

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Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1100

End Date:

1405

Date Range:

1100-c 1400

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment codex.

Dimensions: ff. 2r-94v: 130 x 100 mm (text space: 105 x 70/75 mm); ff. 95r-126v: 120 x 100 mm (text space: 110 x 80 mm).

Foliation: ff. viii + i + 126 (+ unfoliated paper leaf after f. 94; ff. i and 1 are early modern paper flyleaves). Quire numbers.

Script: Protogothic.

Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house binding; rebound in 1983.

Custodial History:

Origin: ff. 2r-94v: probably France; ff. 95r-126v: France or England.

Provenance:

Laurent Bochel (or Bouchel) (b. 1559, d. 1629), advocate of Paris: inscribed 'Laur. Bochellus C. V. 1584' (f. iv verso) and 'Bochellus' (f. 2r).

Pierre Séguier (b. 1588, d. 1672), chancellor of France from 1635 (see Wright 1972).

Andrew Hay (d. 1754?), book dealer: sold together with other manuscripts from the Séguier collection on 5 September 1720.

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, ‘5 Septembris 1720' (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), III (1808), no. 3199.

A. Cordeliani, 'Les traités de comput du Haut Moyen Age (526-1003)', Bulletin Du Cange, 17 (1943), 51-72 (pp. 62-63).

The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by Cyril Ernest Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), I: 1715-1723, p. 51 and n. 5; 68 n. 1.

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. 74, 183, 300, 424.

Musica et scolica enchiriadis una cum aliquibus tractatulis adiunctis, ed. by Hans Schmid (Munich: Verlag der Bayerischen Akademie de Wissenschaften, 1981), pp. viii, xii.

The Theory of Music, vol. IV: Manuscripts from the Carolingian Era up to c. 1500 in Great Britain and in the United States of America. Descriptive Catalogue, ed. by Christian Meyer, Michael Huglo and Nancy C. Phillips, Répertoire international des sources musicales, BIII 4 (Munich: Henle, 1992), pp. 81-83 [with further bibliography].

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)