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Harley MS 5786

Record Id:

040-001780422

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-001780422

MDARK:

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Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 5786

Title:

Psalter (Trilingual)

Scope & Content:

ff. 1-172v: Psalms 1-150 in parallel Greek, Latin and Arabic versions. The Arabic version was translated from the Greek by Abu'l-Fath 'Abdallāh ibn al-Fadl ibn 'Abdallāh al-Mutrān al-Antaki, deacon of the Melkite church of Antioch in the mid 11th cent.

f. 173r: The Supernumerary Psalm 151 in parallel Greek, Latin and Arabic versions followed by the Doxology in Latin only.

f. 173v: [Anno] I[ncar]nationis dominice m c liii Indictione [I] mensis Januarii die octavo die mercurii followed by a Greek list of books and some notes in Latin and Italian by 15^th cent. hand.

f. 174r: Various notes by Thomas Birch (b. 1705, d. 1766), William Watson (b. 1715, d. 1787) and Francis Douce (b. 1757, d. 1834) relating to the date of the manuscript.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Greek Manuscripts
Harley Collection

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040-001780422

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 5786 : Psalter (Trilingual)

Contains:

Harley MS 5786, ff 1-174v : The Psalms, in parallel Greek, Latin and Arabic versions. Rahlfs 174. The Arabic version was translated from the Greek…

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032-002045828[5789]/040-001780422

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

A parchment codex.

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Languages:

Arabic
Greek, Ancient
Latin

Scripts:

Arabic
Greek
Latin

Start Date:

1153

End Date:

1153

Date Range:

before 1153

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment (except f. 174).

Dimensions: 315 x 235 (235 x 165-170) mm.

Ruling: Leroy (Les types de reglure des manuscrits grecs, Paris 1976), num. 04D3/34D3n, 28 lines.

Foliation: ff. [i], ii, 174 (where folios I-ii are parchment leaves; plus one unfoliated modern paper flyleaf at the beginning). Gatherings of 8, numbered a-y.

Decoration: Greek headpieces and initials. Latin initials and titles in red ink. Decorated initials on f. 12v.

Binding: Post-1600 Red leather gilt without tooling in the centre by Elliott (see: Nixon, 'Harleian bindings' (1975), pp. 170, 189 n. 40), with a B.M. Harley stamp at the centre of the covers.

Custodial History:

Origin: Sicily, Palermo (see Johns, 'The Greek Church', (1995) pp. 141-42.; Burnett, 'Indian numerals', (2002) pp. 244-45; Piemontese, 'Codici greco-latino-arabi', (2002) p. 459).

Provenance: John Gibson (fl. 1720-1726), bookseller (see C. E. Wright and R. C. Wright, 'Diary', (1966), p.159 n. 6; Wright, 'Fontes', (1972) p. 162); sold to the Harley

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 (b. 1672, d. 1726) '13 Sept. 1722' (f. ii).

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.

Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts, in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: [n. pub.], 1808-12), III (1808), no. 5786.

Palaeographical Society, Facsimiles of Manuscripts and Inscriptions, Series I , ed. by E. A. Bond, E. M. Thompson and G. F. Warner (London 1873-1883), p. 132 [f 106v].

A. Rahlfs, Verzeichnis der griechischen Handschriften des Alten Testaments, für das Septuaginta-Unternehmen (Berlin, 1914), p. 111 (no. 174).

K. and S. Lake, Dated Greek Minuscule Manuscripts to the Year 1200 (Boston, (MA): The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1934), as MS 80, pls 140-41.

R. Devréesse, Les manuscrits grecs de l'Italie méridionale, Histoire, classement, paléographie, Studi e Testi, 183 (Vatican City: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 1955), p. 40.

E. A. Lowe, 'An Unknown Latin Psalter on Mount Sinai', Scriptorium: Revue internationale des études relatives aux manuscrits, 9 (1955), pp. 177-199 (p. 181 n. 10).

Pierre Salmon, Les ‘Tituli Psalmorum’ des Manuscrits Latins, Études liturgiques, 3 (Paris: CERF, 1959), p. 50 (as 'h').

Bernard Bischoff, 'The Study of Foreign Languages in the Middle Ages', Speculum, 36 (1961), pp. 209-24, (p. 220 n. 53).

C. E. Wright and R. C. Wright, The Diary of Humphrey Wanley 1715-1726, II (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), p. 159 n. 6.

N. G. Wilson, 'Litera Neritina', Scriptorium: Revue internationale des études relatives aux manuscrits, 21 (1967), 73-74.

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: Trustees of the British Museum: 1972), p. 162.

Cyril Ernest Wright, 'Manuscripts of Italian Provenance in the Harleian Collection in the British Museum: Their Sources, Associations and Channels of Acquisition', in Cultural Aspects of the Italian Renaissance: Essays in Honour of Paul Oskar Kristeller, ed. by C. H. Clough (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1976), pp. 462-84 (p. 466).

P. Canart and J. Leroy, 'Les manuscrits en style de Reggio. Étude paléographieque et codicologique', in Paléographie grecque, Colloques internationaux du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 559 (Paris: CNRS, 1977), pp. 241-61 (pp. 256, 258).

T. S. Pattie, Manuscripts of the Bible (London: British Library, 1979), pp. 46-47.

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. 838, pl. 84 a-e.

Walter Berschin, Griechisch-lateinisches Mittelalter, (Bern: Francke, 1980), pp. 271; 286

P. O. Kristeller, Iter Italicum. A Finding List of Uncatalogued or Incompletely Catalogued Humanistic Manuscripts of the Renaissance in Italian and other Libraries, 4 (Alia Itinera, 2): Great Britain to Spain, (Leiden: Brill, 1989), p. 152.

Bernhard Bischoff, Latin Palaeography: Antiquity and the Middle Ages, trans. by Dáibhí Ó Cróinín and David Ganz (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990), p. 215 n. 19.

The Eadwine Psalter: Text, Image, and Monastic Culture in Twelfth-Century Canterbury, ed. by Margaret Gibson, T. A. Heslop, and Richard W. Pfaff, Modern Humanities Research Association, 14 (London: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1992), p. 91 n. 12.

Hubert Houben, 'Die Tolerierung Andersgläubiger in normannisch-staufisches Süditalien', in Die Begegnung des Westens mit dem Osten: Kongreßakten des 4 Symposions des Mediävistenverbandes in Köln 1991 aus Anlaß des 1000 Todesjahres der Kaiserin Theophanu, ed. by Odilo Engels and Peter Schreiner (Sigmaringen: J. Thorbecke, 1993), p. 80 n. 36.

Jeremy Johns, 'The Greek Church and the Conversion of Muslims in Norman Sicily?', in Byzantinische Forschungen 21, ed. by Adolf M. Hakkert and Walter E. Kaegi, (Amsterdam: Adolf M. Hakkert, 1995), pp. 133-53 (pp. 141-42).

T. S. Pattie, Manuscripts of the Bible: Greek Bibles in the British Library, (London: British Library, revd. edn. 1995), pp. 46-47.

Barbara Zeitler, '"Urbs felix dotata populo trilingui": Some Thoughts About a Twelfth-Century Funerary memorial from Palermo', Medieval Encounters, 2 (1996), pp.114-139 (pp. 118-19, 124, 128; 131, 133)

Summary Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1999- ), I, pp. 191-92 [with additional bibliography].

C.S.F. Burnett, 'Indian Numerals in the Mediterranean Basin in the Twelfth Century, with Special Reference to the ‘Eastern Forms.’ in From China to Paris : 2000 years transmission of mathematical ideas, ed. by Y. Dold-Samplonius (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2002), pp. 237-88: 243-245; 258.

Angelo Michele Piemontese, 'Codici greco-latino-arabi in Italia fra XI e XV secolo', in Libri, documenti, epigrafi medievali: possibilità di studi comparativi: atti del Convegno Internazionale di Studio dell'Associazione Italiana dei Paleografi e Diplomatisti: Bari (2-5 ottobre 2000), ed. by Francesco Magistrale, Corinna Drago, and Paolo Fioretti (Spoleto [Perugia]: Centro Italiano di Studi sull'Alto Medioevo, 2002), pp. 445-65, pl. 2.

Charles Burnett, 'The Use of Arabic Numerals among the Three Language Cultures of Norman Sicily'', Art and Form in Norman Sicily: Proceedings of an International Conference, Rome, 6-7 December 2002, ed. by David Knipp, Sonderdruck Römisches Jahrbuch der Bibliotheca Hertziana, 35, 2003/2004 (Munich: Hirmer, 2005), pp. 39-48, (pp. 41-45; 47; fig. 1-5.)

Scot McKendrick and Kathleen Doyle, Bible Manuscripts: 1400 Years of Scribes and Scripture (London: British Library, 2007), p. 85, fig. 72.

Sacred: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam and their Sacred Texts (London: British Library, 2007), p. 82 [exhibition catalogue].

Exhibitions:

Greek Manuscripts, (online), 18 September 2016-
Sacred, British Library, April 2007 - October 2007
Sicily: Culture and Conquest, British Museum, April 2016 - August 2016

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)