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Harley MS 1810

Record Id:

040-001780166

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-001780166

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000195.0x000130

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Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 1810

Title:

Menologion and Four Gospels (Gregory-Aland 113)

Scope & Content:

Menologion and Four Gospels (Gregory-Aland 113; Scrivener evan. 113; von Soden ε 134). The Gospels are decorated with illuminated canon tables, evangelist portraits, and 18 miniatures. The decorations are as follows:ff 18v-22r, Canon Tables.f 25v, Matthew.f 26r, Nativity.f 61r, Transfiguration.f 83r, Last Supper.f 93v, Mark.f 94r, decorated headpiece.f 95r, Baptism of Christ.f 107v, Martyrdom.f 135v, Christ in Majesty.f 139v, Luke.f 140r, decorated headpiece.f 142r, Annunciation.f 146v, Presentation.f 174r, Dormition of Mary.f 204r, Crucifixion.f 205v, Deposition of Christ.f 206v, Resurrection.f 211v, John.f 212r, decorated headpiece.f 229v, marginal drawing of dog and hare.f 230r, Pentecost.f 239r, Raising of Lazarus.f 243r, Entry into Jerusalem.f 246r, Washing of the Feet.f 261v, Thomas and Christ.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Greek Manuscripts
Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-001780166

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 1810 : Menologion and Four Gospels (Gregory-Aland 113)

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Hierarchy:

032-002045828[1812]/040-001780166

Container:

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

269 folios

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Languages:

Greek, Ancient

Scripts:

Greek

Start Date:

1160

End Date:

1199

Date Range:

Late 12th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment and (ff 1*, 1-13, 269) paper (w.m. Anchor cf. Harlfinger Ancre 57, Piccard Anker V 279-344).

Foliation: ff 1* + 269 ( + 3 unfoliated modern flyleaves at the beginning and at the end).

Dimensions: 228 x 165 (157 x 106) mm.

Ruling: (ff 14-268) Leroy 33D1n, 26 lines; (ff 1-13) 19 lines.

Decoration: 22 full-page or large miniatures in colours and gold, most of the life of Christ, and Evangelist portraits. 9 canon tables in colours and gold, within micro-architectural frames decorated with curtains, capitals, and usually birds, one also with dogs or foxes ? (ff 18v-22r). Large headpieces in colours and gold with foliate decoration at the beginning of 3 Gospels. Large zoomorphic or decorated initials in red or in colours and gold at the beginning of Gospels. Small initials in red with penwork decoration. Simple headpieces in red or red and black. Small initials in gold. Text in red or gold. The conclusions of each section of text are written in geometric shapes.

Binding: British Museum binding of brown calf (late 19th cent.).

Script: Identifiable as a Cypriot-Palestinian style hand, classified by Canart as being 'style ε rectangulaire', as in Additional 26103 (see Canart 1981).

Custodial History:

Origin: Eastern Mediterranean (probably Cyprus or Palestine).

Provenance:

Part of the 'Nicaea School', (see Carr 2005 p. 40).

16th-century diagrammatic ownership inscription of a monastery of the Holy Cross (on a paper fragment pasted onto f 1*).

ff 1-13v are added text on paper, with small initials and simple headpiece in red, supplied by a mid-16th-century hand.

In a monastery dedicated to the prophet Elias (Elijah), 17th century: inscription (f 269r).

Ownership inscription of Botiros (?), 17th century (f 1*r): ἐτοῦτω τω τετρευάγγελον ὑπάρχι τοῦ [Βοτιρος?] τοῦ ἐπωνομαζαμένου, followed by an anathema.

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 Cavendish, née 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.

Administrative Context:

Eastern Mediterranean (probably Cyprus or Palestine).

Information About Copies:

Complete digital coverage available for this manuscript, see Digitised Manuscripts [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=harley_ms_1810].

Select digital coverage available for this manuscript, see Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts [http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=8094&CollID=8&NStart=1810].

Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols, London 1808-1812, II, pp. 248-249.

W. de G. Birch and H. Jenner, Early Drawings and Illuminations, An Introduction to the Study of Illustrated Manuscripts with a Dictionary of Subjects in the British Museum, London 1879, pp. xiv-xv, pl. vi (f 204r).

F. H. A. Scrivener, A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, 2 vols, London 1894, evan. 113.

C. R. Gregory, Textkritik des Neuen Testamentes, 3 vols, Leipzig 1900-1909, no. 113.

Hermann von Soden, Die Schriften des Neuen Testaments, in ihrer ältesten erreichbaren Textgestalt hergestellt auf Grund ihrer Textgeschichte, 4 vols, Berlin 1902-1910, ε 134.

G. M. Rushforth, 'The Descent into Hell in Byzantine Art', Papers of the British School at Rome 1 (1902) pp. 114-119.

G. F. Warner, Reproductions from Illuminated Manuscripts, ser. I, London 1906, pls II, III (ff 135v, 174r).

J. A. Herbert, Illuminated Manuscripts, London 1911, pp. 58-61.

The Christian Orient, British Library exhibition catalogue, London 1978, No. 10.

P. Canart, 'Les écritures livresque chypriotes du milieu du IX^e siècle au milieu du XIII^e et le style palestino-cypriote "epsilon"', Scrittura e Civiltà 5 (1981), pp. 17–76. [Reprinted in P. Canart, Études de paléographie et de codicologie (Studi e Testi 450-451), 2 vols, Vatican City 2008, I, pp. 677-376.]

F. Wisse, The Profile Method for Classifying and Evaluating Manuscript Evidence, Grand Rapids (Mich.) 1982, p. 54.

A. W. Carr, 'Gospel Frontispieces from the Comnenian Period', Gesta 21 (1982) pp. 3-20 (pp. 3, 16). [Reprinted in Cyprus and the Devotional Arts of Byzantium in the Era of the Crusades. Aldershot 2005, art. III.].

A. W. Carr, 'A group of provincial manuscripts from the twelfth century', Dumbarton Oaks Papers 36 (1982) pp. 39–81 (p. 40, n. 16). [Reprinted in Cyprus and the Devotional Arts of Byzantium in the Era of the Crusades. Aldershot 2005, art. I.]

A. W. Carr, Byzantine Illumination 1150-1250, Chicago 1987, pp. 55-69, 251-252.

Byzantium. Treasures of Byzantine Art and Culture, British Museum exhibition catalogue, ed. D. Buckton, London 1994, No. 194.

K. Aland, Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testaments (Berlin and New York, 2nd edn., 1994), p. 53 (GA 113).

B. Zeitler, 'The Distorting Mirror: Reflections on the Queen Melisende Psalter (London, B. L., Egerton 1139)', in Through the Looking Glass: Byzantium Through British Eyes, ed. R. Cormack and E. Jeffreys (Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies 7), Aldershot 1995, pp. 69-81 (p. 69 n. 3).

The British Library Summary Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts, I, London 1999, pp. 90-91.

The Apocalypse and the Shape of Things to Come, British Museum exhibition catalogue, ed. F. Carey, London 1999, pp. 66-67, No. 3.

E. Yota, 'Le tétraévangile Harley 1810 de la British Library. Contribution à l’étude de l’illustration des tétraévangiles du Xe au XIIIe siècle', unpublished PhD dissertation, University of Fribourg and University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, Fribourg, 2001 [http://ethesis.unifr.ch/theses/downloads.php?file=YotaE.pdf].

S. McKendrick and K. Doyle, Bible Manuscripts: 1400 Years of Scribes and Scripture, London 2007, no. 92.

K. Maxwell, 'The Afterlife of Texts: Decorative Style Manuscripts and New Testament Textual Criticism', in Byzantine Images and Their Afterlives : Essays in Honor of Annemarie Weyl Carr, ed. L. Jones, Farnham 2014, pp. 11–38.

Exhibitions:

Greek Manuscripts, (online), 18 September 2016-
Jerusalem 1000-1400: Every People under Heaven, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 26 September 2016 - 8 January 2017

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)