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Harley MS 5540

Record Id:

040-001780198

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-001780198

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000195.0x000135

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Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 5540

Title:

Four Gospels (Gregory-Aland 114)

Scope & Content:

Four Gospels (Gregory-Aland 114; Scrivener evan. 114; von Soden ε 1018).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Greek Manuscripts
Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-001780198

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 5540 : Four Gospels (Gregory-Aland 114)

Contains:

Harley MS 5540, ff 1-278v : Four Gospels, with sections but not canon tables. Introduction Ἀμμώνιος μὲν in quatrefoils. Capitula to…
Harley MS 5540, ff 279-280 : John Chrysostom, Sermo catecheticus in Pascha (PG 59.721-724; CPG 4605, TLG 2062.259).

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Hierarchy:

032-002045828[5542]/040-001780198

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

280 folios

Digitised Content:

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Languages:

Greek, Ancient

Scripts:

Greek

Start Date:

1000

End Date:

1399

Date Range:

11th century-14th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment.

Foliation: ff 280 (+ 3 unfoliated paper and 1 parchment flyleaves at the beginning and at the end).

Dimensions: 135 x 105 (80 x 60) mm.

Ruling: Leroy D 54D1pq, 20 lines (ff 1-278), 19-21 lines (ff 279-280).

Decoration: Architectural headpiece in colours, silver, and gold with a pediment and four columns and an initial in red, silver, and gold (f 4r). Headpiece and initial in colours and gold (f 130r). Headpiece and initial in colours (f 220r). Rubrics and capitals in red.

Binding: Red morocco gilt in 'Harleian' style by Chapman (rebacked).

Custodial History:

Origin: Eastern Mediterranean.

Provenance:

ff 79, 271-278 are replacements, possibly dating to the 14th century.

ff 279-280 are written in a 14th- or 15th-century hand.

Crossed-out Latin ex-libris in 15th-century hand (last flyleaf).

Inscribed by Nicolas Le Febvre (1588-1653) Ἀδελφὸς ὁ Νικόλαος φαβηρ ἐκ τῆς τάξεως τῶν Κηρύττωντων 1617 (ff 1r, 4r).

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: sold to Harley on 13 August 1724 (see Fontes p. 255).

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, A.D. 1724’ (f [iv]).

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.

Information About Copies:

Complete digital coverage available for this manuscript, see Digitised Manuscripts [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=harley_ms_5540].

Select digital coverage available for this manuscript, see Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts [http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=4919&CollID=8&NStart=5540].

Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols, London 1808-1812, III, p. 275.

W. Smith, Dictionary of the Bible, 1863, 'New Testament' ii, 506-534, pl. II.3.

F. H. A. Scrivener, A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, 2 vols, London 1894, evan. 114.

C. R. Gregory, Textkritik des Neuen Testamentes, 3 vols, Leipzig 1900-1909, no. 114.

Hermann von Soden, Die Schriften des Neuen Testaments, in ihrer ältesten erreichbaren Textgestalt hergestellt auf Grund ihrer Textgeschichte, 4 vols, Berlin 1902-1910, ε 1018.

C. E. Wright and R. C. Wright, The Diary of Humphrey Wanley 1715-1726, 2 vols, London 1966, p. 304 n. 7.

M. Aubineau, Codices Chrysostomici Graeci, I: Codices Britanniae et Hiberniae, Paris 1968, No. 54.

C. E. Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts preserved in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1972, p. 255.

K. Aland, Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testaments (Berlin and New York, 2nd edn., 1994), p. 53 (GA 114).

The British Library Summary Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts, I, London 1999, pp. 103-104.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)