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Harley MS 3017

Record Id:

040-001779798

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-001779798

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000195.0x0000ea

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Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 3017

Title:

Miscellany of computistical and astronomical texts

Scope & Content:

Miscellany of computistical and astronomical texts including:

Somniale Danielis (fragment) (ff. 1r-1v);

Calendarium (ff. 2r-21r);

Calendar (ff. 21v-32v);

Calendarium of decennovenal cycles (ff. 32v-42r);

Collection of computistical formulas (ff. 42v-50r);

An excerpt from Isidore, Etymologiae, book VI (ff. 50r-51r);

A text incipit: 'A terra ad lunam, ut ait Pythagoras' (ff. 51v-53r);

A diagram of the Easter cycle (ff. 53v-54r);

Computistical texts (ff. 54v-57r);

'Ratio sphere Pitagore philisophi quam Apuleius descripsit' (ff. 57v-58r);

Computistical texts (ff. 58v-61r);

Collection of computistical formulas (ff. 61v-62v);

'Revelatio Esdrae' (ff. 63r-64v);

Diagram of the 'annus communis' (f. 65r);

Collection of computistical and astronomical excerpts (ff. 66r-113r);

'Incipit calculatio quomodo reperiri possit quota feria singulis annis XIIIIa vel Pasche ocurrat' (ff. 113v-132v);

Computistical excerpts (ff. 133r-150r);

Miscellanous excerpts about rivers and numbers (ff. 150r-153v);

Excerpts on astronomy, computus and mathematics (ff. 154r-181r), including Isidore Etymologiae, book III (ff. 172v-180r);

'Confiteor' (ff. 181v-182r);

Excerpts on computus including a text on atoms (ff. 182v-190v).

Decoration:

Interlace initials in ink and red (ff. 2r, 66r). Rubrics and initials in red (oxidised) or highlighted in red. 17 decorated diagrams: of the Easter cycle (ff. 53v-54r), wheels of the months with notes of Kalends (ff. 56r, 87v), consanguinity diagram (f. 57v), sphere of Pitagoras within an interlace frame (f. 58r), 'Annus communis' diagram (f. 65v), the phases of the moon (f. 80r), 'Horologium viatorum' (f. 88r), 'Annus - Mundus - Homo' diagram (ff. 89v, 92v), Isidorian zone diagram arranged in circles in a floral design (ff. 90v), the four elements (f. 92r), concentric orbits of planets with periods of revolution (f. 94r), wind rota (f. 128v), tidal rota (f. 135r), a table of Greek alphabet, numerals and months (f. 151v), and small geometrical diagrams (ff. 177v-180r) in ink, red, green and yellow. Small puzzle initials in ink.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection
Harley Science Project

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

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040-001779798

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 3017 : Miscellany of computistical and astronomical texts

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Record Type (Level):

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Extent:

1 volume

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Languages:

Greek, Ancient
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

0800

End Date:

0924

Date Range:

800-924

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment codex.

Dimensions: 215 x 175 mm (140/150 x 110/115 mm).

Foliation: ff. vi + 190 (1 unfoliated flyleaf at the beginning and 1 at the end are parchment leaves)

Script: Caroline minuscule. Written by several scribes.

Binding: Post-1600; 'Harleian' binding of gilt-tooled red morocco, attributable to Thomas Elliott; marbled endleaves.

Custodial History:

Origin: France, Central (Fleury or Nevers).

Provenance:

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: purchased by Edward Harley on 13th August 1724 (see 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, ‘13 die mensis Augusti, AD 1724’ (f. 1; see Wright and Wright 1966).

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. 3017.

André Van de Vyver, ‘Les Oeuvres Inédits d'Abbon de Fleury’, Revue Bénédictine, 47 (1935), 125-169 (151).

Charles W. Jones, ‘Two Easter Tables’, Speculum, 13 (1938) 204-205 (repr. in Charles W. Jones, Bede, the Schools and the Computus, ed. Wesley M. Stevens (Aldershot: Hampshire, 1994), ch. 9).

Charles W. Jones, Bedae Pseudepigrapha: Scientific Writings Falsely Attributed to Bede (Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1939), p. 122 and passim.

M. L. W. Laistner, A Hand-List of Bede Manuscripts (Ithaca: Cornell University, 1943), pp. 146, 149, 155.

René L. M. Derolez, Runica Manuscripta: The English Tradition, Rijksuniversiteit te Gent Werken Uitgegeven door de Faculteit van de Wijsbegeerte en Letteren, 118 (Bruges: De Tempel, 1954), pp. xl, 115, 212-17, 260, 269, 272, fig. 215.

Alfred Cordoliani, ‘Les Manuscrits de la Bibliothèque de Berne Provenant de l'Abbaye de Fleury au XIe siècle. Le comput d'Abbon’, Zeitschrift für schweizerischen Kirchengeschichte, 52 (1958), 135-146 (141).

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. 304-05 n. 7.

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. 254-55, 420.

Lawrence T. Martin, Somniale Danielis: An Edition of a Medieval Latin Dream Interpretation Handbook (Frankfort: Peter D. Lang, 1981), pp. 24-25.

E. Ann Matter, 'The Revelatio Esdrae in Latin and English Traditions', Revue Bénédictine, 92 (1982), 376-92 (p. 387).

Marco Mostert, The Library of Fleury: A Provisional List of Manuscripts, Middeleeuwse Studies en Bronnen [Medieval Studies and Sources], 3 (Hilversum: Verloren, 1989), p. 107.

Peter S. Baker and Michael Lapidge, Byrhtferth’s Enchiridion, Early English Text Society, 15 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995), p. xlii.

Evelyn Edson, 'World Maps and Easter Table: Medieval Maps in Context', Imago Mundi: The International Journal for the History of Cartography, 48 (1996), 25-42 (pp. 27, 41, fig. 2).

Arno Borst, Die karolingische Kalenderreform, Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Schriften, 46 (Hannover: Hahnsche Buchhandlung, 1998), pp. XX, 303, 409, 473, 502.

Paul Hughes, ‘Implicit Carolingian Tidal Data’, Early Science and Medicine, 8, 1 (2003), 1-24 (2-5).

Bernhard Bischoff, Katalog der festländischen Handschriften des neunten Jahrhunderts (mit Ausnahme der wisigotischen), ed. by Birgit Ebersperger, Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für die Herausgabe der Mittelalterlichen Bibliothekskataloge Deutschlands und der Schweiz, 2 vols (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1998, 2004), II: Laon-Paderborn, p. 118.

Roy M. Liuzza, ed. and trans., Anglo-Saxon Prognostics: An Edition and Translation of Texts from London, British Library, MS Cotton Tiberius A.iii (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2010), pp. 22, 35-36, 47-48, 59, 72, 76.

Immo Warntjes, 'The Continuation of the Alexandrian Easter Table in Seventh-Century Iberia and its Transmission to Ninth-Century Francia (Isidore, Etymologiae 6.17)', Revue d’Histoire des Textes, 13 (2018), 185-194.

'London, British Library, Harley 3017', at 'Innovating Knowledge', ed. by Evina Steinová ((Huygens Institute, Amsterdam, 2021), online at https://db.innovatingknowledge.nl/#detail/M0171 [accessed 28.01.2022].

Exhibitions:

Moonstruck, Royal Museums Greenwich, London, 19 July 2019 - 5 January 2020

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Notes:

Tidal wheel diagram. Exhibited: Moonstruck, Royal Museums Greenwich, London, 19 July 2019 - 5 January 2020