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Harley MS 3271

Record Id:

040-001779712

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-001779712

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000195.0x0000a0

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Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 3271

Title:

Collection of grammatical and computistical texts

Scope & Content:

Miscellaneous collection including:

Grammatical text on the genre of nouns and pronouns, formation of verbs and the first and second declination (ff. 1r-6r);

The Tribal Hidage (f. 6v);

Aelfric, Grammar (ff. 7r-90r);

Miscellaneous notes including notes on computus (ff. 90r-92v);

Grammatical treatise 'Dialogus de VIII partibus orationis' (ff. 93r-113v);

Prayers for the Vespers from the office of the Invention of St Stephen, with grammatical notes (ff. 114r-115r);

Abbo of Saint-Germain, Bella Parisiacae urbis (excerpt) (ff. 115v-120r);

A text on dies medicinales (ff. 120v-121r);

Prayers of a mass for a priest (ff. 121r-121v);

Verses about the calculation of dies egyptiacae (ff. 122r-122v);

A text entitled 'Medicina Ypocratis' (ff. 122v-124r);

A text entitled 'Be þam halgan gaste on englisc' (ff. 124r-125r);

Aelfric, Letter to Sigeward, De Veteri Testamento, excerpts (ff. 125v-128v);

De initio creaturae (ff.128v-129r).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection
Harley Science Project

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-001779712

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 3271 : Collection of grammatical and computistical texts

Contains:

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Hierarchy:

032-002045828[3272]/040-001779712

Container:

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

129 folios.

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Languages:

English, Old
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1000

End Date:

1040

Date Range:

Early 11th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment codex.

Dimensions: 270 x 180 mm (text space: 220 x 150/ 215 x 135 mm).

Foliation: ff. vii + 3* + 129 ( ff. 1* and 3* are medieval parchment flyleaves, f. 2* is a folded sheet of paper pasted to f. 3*). ff. 1-129: 16th-century foliation (single leaves after ff. 45, 69 not foliated, and number 88 omitted).

Script: Caroline minuscule and Anglo-Saxon minuscule.

Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house binding.

Custodial History:

Origin: England (Mercia or Northumbria).

Provenance:

William Fleetwood [Fletewoode] (b. c.1525, d. 1594), lawyer and antiquary: erased inscription of his name (ff. 3*verso and f. 129v); no. 1 of the manuscripts at Missenden Abbey, the home of the Fleetwood family: see Ker 1957.

18th-century? inscription '111 A ii' (f. 3*r).

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:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), no. 3271.

N. R. Ker, Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957), no. 239 [with additional bibliography].

Andrew G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c. 700-1600 in The Department of Manuscripts: The British Library, 2 vols (London: British Library, 1979), no. 743.

G. 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.138.

The Making of England: Anglo-Saxon Art and Culture AD 600-900, ed. by Leslie Webster and Janet Backhouse (London: British Museum, 1991) no. 26 [exhibition catalogue with additional bibliography].

Peter Featherstone, 'The Tribal Hidage and the Ealdormen of Mercia' in Mercia: An Anglo-Saxon Kingdom in Europe, ed. by Michelle P. Brown and Carol A. Farr (London: Leicester University Press, 2001), pp. 23-34.

Helmut Gneuss, Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: A List of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Written or Owned in England up to 1100, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 241 (Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2001), no. 435.

The Leofric Missal I, ed. by Nicholas Orchard, Henry Bradshaw Society, 113 (London: Henry Bradshaw Society, 2002), pp. 167, 203.

K. D. Hartzell, Catalogue of Manuscripts Written or Owned in England up to 1200 containing Music (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2006), no. 163.

Michelle P. Brown, Manuscripts from the Anglo-Saxon Age (London: British Library, 2007), p. 94 (plate).

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)