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Harley MS 110
- Record Id:
- 040-002045938
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002045938
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000596.0x000127
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100060440080.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 110
- Title:
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Glossed copy of Prosper, Epigrammata ex sententiis S. Augustini; Versus ad coniugem; Isidore, Synonyma de lamentatione animae peccatricis; two leaves from a gradual
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 3r-22v: Prosper, Epigrammata ex sententiis S. Augustini; with Old English glosses [Clavis Patrum Latinorum, no. 526].
ff. 22v-24v: ? Prosper or Paulinus of Nola, Poema coniugis ad uxorem; with Old English glosses [Clavis Patrum Latinorum, no. 531].
ff. 25r-53r: Isidore of Seville, Synonymorum de lamentatione animae peccatricis; with Old English glosses [Clavis Patrum Latinorum, no. 1203].
The manuscript contains a few additions:
ff. 1r-1v, 56r-56v: A fragment of a Gradual written around the mid 11th-century.
f. 2r: A text with Latin conjugations, beginining: 'Malus peior pessimus . Mala peior pessima. Malum peius pessimum. Mali peioris pessimi'; written in a 12th-century hand with a later addition.
ff. 54v-55v: Small sections of musical notation and text in a 13th-century hand.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002045938 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 110 : Glossed copy of Prosper, Epigrammata ex sententiis S. Augustini; Versus ad coniugem; Isidore, Synonyma de lamentatione… - Contains:
- Harley MS 110, ff 1r-1v, 56r-56v : Fragment of a gradual
Harley MS 110, ff 2r-55v : Glossed copy of Prosper, Epigrammata ex sententiis S. Augustini [Clavis Patrum Latinorum, no. 526]; Prosper,…
Harley MS 110, ff 56r-56v : Fragment of a gradual
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- 032-002045828[0109]/040-002045938
- 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_100060440080.0x000001
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- Languages:
- English, Old
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0975
- End Date:
- 1050
- Date Range:
- 975-1050
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 260 x 120 mm (text space: 205 x 90 mm) [ff. 3r-54r]; 265 x 120 mm (text space: 210 x 100 mm) [ff. 1r-1v; 56r-56v].
Foliation: ff. 56 (+ 3 modern, unfoliated flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end); 2 unfoliated blank parchment leaves after f. 24; 1 unfoliated parchment stub between f. 2 and f. 3; and f. 15 and f. 16; 1 unfoliated paper pastedown on f. [ii]recto (bibliographical notes).
Script: English Caroline minuscule; Protogothic (ff. 2, 54v-55v).
Binding: British Museum in-house. Black half leather binding with the Harleian armorial bookplate gold-stamped on the outside of the upper and lower covers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
? Canterbury or ? Winchester.
Provenance:
? The Benedictine abbey of Christ Church, Canterbury: Temple, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts 900-1066 (1976), no. 19 [ff. 3r-56r].
? Winchester, Old Minster: see Gneuss and Lapidge, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts (2014), no. 416 [ff. 1r-1v, 56r-56v].
Sir Simonds D’Ewes (b. 1602, d. 1650), 1st baronet, diarist, antiquary, and friend of Sir Robert Cotton: added his commentary to the 16th- or 17th-century title inscription 'Epigrammata Prosperi' on f. 1r: 'exemplar vetustissimum et magni aestimandum etsi Liber sit editus inter opera eiusdem et Isidori Ispalensis Archiepiscopi synonima'; added his number '17' to f. 3r; and listed in his catalogues as A.257 and B. 186 (see Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes (1966), pp. 130-131 [A.257], 300 [B.186]; Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), pp. 131-37).
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; according to a receipt in Additional MS 70478 (Portland Papers) [formerly Loan 29/254 packet 2] (see Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D’Ewes (1966), pp. 60, 91 n. 308; Diary, ed. by Wright and Wright (1966), p. xviii n. 3).
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:
- Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk.manuscripts.
- Publications:
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Nicolas Bell, Music in Medieval Manuscripts (London: British Library, 2001), p. 21.
T. A. M. Bishop, 'Notes on Cambridge Manuscripts', Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 3 (1963), pp. 413-23.
A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), I, p. 34.
The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by C. E. Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), I: 1715-1723, p. xviii n. 3.
Andrew Dunning, Alison Hudson, and Christina Duffy, 'Reconstructing Burnt Anglo-Saxon Fragments in the Cotton Collection at the British Library', Fragmentology: A Journal for the Study of Medieval Manuscript Fragments, 1 (2018), 7-37 (p. 30).
J. Elfassi, 'Les Deux Recensions des Synonyma', in L'edition critique des oeuvres d'Isidore de Seville, ed. by Andres Sanz, J. Elfassi and J.C. Martin (Paris: Institut d'Etudes Augustiniennes, 2008) pp. 153-184 [on the text].
Helmut Gneuss, Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: A List of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Written or Owned in England up to 1100, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 241 (Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2001), no. 415, no. 416 (ff. 1 and 56).
Helmut Gneuss and Michael Lapidge, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: A Bibliographical Handlist of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Written or Owned in England up to 1100 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014), no. 415, no. 416 (ff. 1 and 56).
K. D. Hartzell, Catalogue of Manuscripts Written or Owned in England up to 1200 containing Music (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2006), no. 153.
David Hiley, Western Plainchant: A Handbook (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995), p. 412, pl. 5.
N. R. Ker, Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957), no. 228.
Michael Lapidge, Anglo-Latin Literature 600-899 (London: Hambledon Press, 1996), pp. 465-470, n. 45, p. 479 n. 80.
Elzbieta Temple, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts 900-1066, Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles, 2 (London: Miller, 1976), no. 19 (vii), pl. 69 [with additional bibiliography].
Andrew G. Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes (London: British Museum, 1966), 130-131, 300.
Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 131-37.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)