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Harley MS 46
- Record Id:
- 040-002045874
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002045874
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000596.0x0000d3
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100056056646.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 46
- Title:
- Glossed Gospels of St Matthew and St Mark
- Scope & Content:
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ff. 1r-v: Capitula referring to quires and folios of the manuscript.
ff. 3r-4r: Preface on the Gospels, excerpted from Genesis, beginning: ‘Fecit deus duo magna luminaria’
ff. 4r-6v: Glossed prologue to the Gospel of St Matthew, beginning: ‘Mattheus ex iudea sicut in ordine’; gloss on the prologue (f. 4v): 'Nomen libri evangelium grece'.
ff. 7r-94r: Glossed Gospel of St Matthew, beginning: 'Liber generacionis Ihesu Christi filii David'; beginning of the gloss: 'Planior esset sensus'.
f. 95r-v: Glossed prologue to the Gospel of St Mark, beginning: 'Marcus evangelista dei'; beginning of the gloss: 'Quatuor sunt qualitates'.
ff. 96r-152r: Glossed Gospel of St Mark, beginning: 'Initium evangelii Ihesu Christi filii Dei'; beginning of the gloss: 'Nota quod hoc testimonium'.
Decoration:
Five large initials in gold and sometimes silver with penwork decoration in red, blue, and green, some with acanthus leaves or zoomorphic features at the beginning of prologues and books (ff. 3r, 4r, 7r, 95r, 96r).
Large initials in blue or red with red and blue penwork decoration. Small initials in red or blue.
Paragraph signs in red or blue, one with an animal head (f. 44r).
Quire signatures of Roman numerals. Paraphs in brown.
Chain mark (f. 152).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- England and France 700-1200 Project
Harley Collection - Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002045874", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 46: Glossed Gospels of St Matthew and St Mark" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002045874 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 46 : Glossed Gospels of St Matthew and St Mark - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0045]/040-002045874
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100056056646.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1175
- End Date:
- 1199
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 275 × 205 mm (text space: 210 × 155 mm, in 2 or 3 columns).
Foliation: ff. 192 (+ 3 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and 4 at the end), f. 1* is a medieval parchment flyleaf.
Script: Protogothic.
Binding: British Museum in-house. Rebound in 1966.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
The cathedral church of St Peter, York: 14th-century inscriptions, ‘de Thesauraria Eborum ecclesie’, (f. 1* recto; ‘Eborum’ retouched) and ‘Lib’ s[ancti] Petri Ebor’’ (f. 3r; ‘Petri’ erased but legible under UV light).
Henry Savile of Banke (1568–1617), collector of manuscripts: the Savile cypher (f. 3r); no. 59 in his catalogue.
Sir Simonds d'Ewes (b.1602, d. 1650), 1st baronet, diarist, antiquary, and friend of Sir Robert Cotton (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)): inscribed 'Symonds D'Ewes (f. 2r).
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, The library of Sir Simonds d'Ewes (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 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.
- Information About Copies:
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- Publications:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), I, no. 213.
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. 216.
Andrew G. Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes (London: British Museum, 1966), no. A256.
Andrew G. Watson, The Manuscripts of Henry Savile of Banke (Oxford: Bibliographical Society, 1969), no. 59.
Anne Lawrence-Mathers, Manuscripts in Northumbria in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2003), p. 271.
Richard Sharpe and James Willoughby, Medieval Libraries of Great Britain (Oxford: The Bodleian Libraries, 2015) http://mlgb3.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/mlgb/book/6301/?search_term=harley%2046&page_size=500 [accessed 28 April 2017].
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Notes:
- This manuscript is part of The Polonsky Foundation England and France Project: Manuscripts from the British Library and the Bibliothèque nationale de France, 700-1200.