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Harley MS 6
- Record Id:
- 040-001882342
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-001882342
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000195.0x00015c
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6
- Title:
- Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae, and Alexander Neckam, Corrogationes Promethei
- Scope & Content:
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The volume is composed of two parts that comprise:
Isidore of Seville Etymologiae (ff. 1r-149r), and Alexander Neckam Corrogationes Promethei (ff. 150r-196r).
The manuscript also includes a title and a table of contents (ff. 1*v-2*r) added on two flyleaves at the beginning of the book.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
Harley Science Project - Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-001882342", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 6: Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae, and Alexander Neckam, Corrogationes Promethei" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "041-001882344", "parent" : "040-001882342", "text" : "Harley MS 6, ff 1r-149r: Isidore, Etymologiae" },{ "id" : "041-001882346", "parent" : "040-001882342", "text" : "Harley MS 6, ff 1*v-2*r: Title and table of contents" },{ "id" : "041-001882350", "parent" : "040-001882342", "text" : "Harley MS 6, ff 150-196r: Alexander Neckam, Corrogationes Promethei" }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-001882342 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 6 : Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae, and Alexander Neckam, Corrogationes Promethei - Contains:
- Harley MS 6, ff 1r-149r : Isidore, Etymologiae
Harley MS 6, ff 1*v-2*r : Title and table of contents
Harley MS 6, ff 150-196r : Alexander Neckam, Corrogationes Promethei
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- 032-002045828[0005]/040-001882342
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Harley_MS_6 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1230
- End Date:
- 1270
- Date Range:
- Mid 13th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment codex.
Dimensions: 292 x 195 mm (text space: ff, 1r-149v: 218 x 138 mm; ff. 150r-196r: 222/5 x 149 mm).
Foliation: v + 2* + 197 (ff. 1* and 2* are parchment flyleaves). Modern foliation in pencil ff. '1-197' (including original back flyleaf as f. 197; ff. 71v, 149v blank; ff. 196v-197v originally blank). ff. 1r-149v: sec. fol. (f. 2) 'et pila. Nonusdecimus liber'; ff. 150r-196r: sec. fol. (f. 151r) 'superfluitate'.
Collation: ff. 1r-149v: i-vi10 (ff. 1-60), vii12-1 (twelfth leaf, blank, cancelled; ff. 61-71), viii-xiv10 (ff. 72-141), xv10-2 (ninth and tenth leaves, blank, cancelled; ff. 142-149), with hair sides out and horizontal catchwords in lower inner corner of last versos, at the right of the vertical bounding line. ff. 150r-196r: i-vi8, with flesh sides out and catchwords on the right edge of the lower margin of the last versos.
Layout: ff. 1r-149v: pricked on hair sides and ruled (single bounding lines) in lead point for double columns of 42 lines; ff. 150r-196r: pricked on hair sides and ruled (single bounding lines) in metal point for double columns of 49-53 lines. Text written below bounding line.
Script: Gothic; ff. 1r-149v: written in brown ink by three hands: ff. 1r-5v (line 23); ff. 5v (line 23) - 71; ff. 72r-149r. ff. 150r-196r: written by one hand in black ink.
Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house binding.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England (or perhaps France).
Provenance:
Added note in dry point (f. 196v) and draft of charter (f. 197v) in very faint ink, 14th century; the second datable circa 1336 and relating to 'Johannis de Trubwike de Firma terrae suae de le Hotfelde, quam dimiserat Roysiae de Weltone, anno decimo R.R. Edwardi III'.
Simon Glympynge (perhaps Simon de Clympingham, archdeacon of Lewes, 1262), see Wright 1972; donated by him to Chichester Cathedral: inscribed, 'lib[er] Isodori [et] ferru[m] de d[on]o Simon[is] Glympynge. ijdo [= secundo] fol[io] [et] pila. I. vi' (The title 'liber Isodori et ferrum' refers to parts 1, Isidore, Etymologiae, and 2, Nequam, Corrogationes Promethei, which begins with the words 'Ferrum situ'), late 14th century (f. 2*r).
The cathedral church of Holy Trinity, Chichester: library ownership note (see above) and pressmark (f. 2*r) and its erased copy on f. 1r legible under ultra-violet light, lower margin of f. 1r.
Added table of contents to Isidore, 'Etymologiae' (f. 2*r), imperfect; title describing both parts of the manuscript (f. 1* v), 15th century.
Sir Simonds d'Ewes (b.1602, d. 1650), 1st baronet, diarist, antiquary, and friend of Sir Robert Cotton (see Wright 1972): his manuscript 28 (see Watson 1966).
Sir Simonds D’Ewes (d. 1722), 3rd baronet and grandson of the former: inherited and later sold the D’Ewes library to Robert Harley on 4 October 1705 for £450 (see Watson 1966).
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. Harley shelfmark in ink '33.A.6 / 6' (f. 1* v).
- Publications:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), I (1808), no. 6.
M. Paul Meyer, 'Notice sur Les Corrogationes Promethei d'Alexandre Neckam', Notices et Extraits des Manuscrits de la Bibliothèque Nationale et autres Bibliothèques, 35 (1897), 1-42 (pp. 5-6).
Isidori Hispalensis Etymologiarum sive originum libri XX, ed. by W.M. Lindsay, 2 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1911) [an edition of the text from earlier manuscripts].
Dorothea Waley Singer, Catalogue of Latin and vernacular alchemical manuscripts in Great Britain and Ireland 3 vols (Brussels: M. Lamertin, 1928-31), ii, p. 689, no. 1056, xviii.
Dorothea Waley Singer and Annie Anderson, Catalogue of Latin and Vernacular Plague Texts in Great Britain and Eire in Manuscripts Written Before the SixteenthCentury (London : William Heinemann Medical Books, 1950), p. 126, no. xviii.
Andrew G. Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes (London: British Museum, 1966), no. A909 and B28.
Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books, ed. by N. R. Ker, 2nd edn, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 3 (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), p. 51.
C. E. Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 104, 131, 161.
G. L. Bursill-Hall, A Census of Medieval Latin Grammatical Manuscripts, Grammatica Speculativa: Sprachtheorie und Logik des Mittelalters, 4 (Stuttgart: Frommann-Holzboog, 1981), p. 115 no. 107.
Richard W. Hunt, The Schools and the Cloister: The Life and Writings of Alexander Nequam (1157-1216), ed. by M. T. Gibson (Oxford, Clarendon 1984), p. 132.
Priscilla Throop, Isidore of Seville’s Etymologies, the complete English translation, 2 vols (Charlotte, Vt.: Medieval MS, 2005) [for a translation of the text based on the Lindsay 1911 edition].
J. Henderson, The Medieval World of Isidore of Seville: truth from words. A Guide to the Etymologiae (Cambridge: University Press, 2007) [on the text].
L'Edition Critique des Oeuvres D'Isidore de Seville: Les Recensions Multiples, ed. by A Andres Sanz, J. Elfassi and J.C. Martin (Paris: Institut d'Etudes Augustiniennes, 2008), pp. 195-230.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)