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Harley MS 213
- Record Id:
- 040-002046041
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046041
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000596.0x0001ce
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100058096248.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 213
- Title:
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Alcuin, Expositio in Ecclesiasten with prologue by Alcuin; Alcuin, Carmina lxxvi; Pseudo-Alcuin, Vox ecclesie (a commentary on the Song of Songs); Augustine's homily De disciplina Christiana; Anonymous, Homily (extracts from Gregory homiliae .xl. in Evangelia)
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 2r-3v: Alcuin, Prologue to the Expositio in Ecclesiasten.
ff. 4r-99r: Alcuin, Expositio in Ecclesiasten. Chapter 3 ends on the middle of f. 30v. Five underlined lined linked to Chapter 3 at the beginning of chapter 4 (f. 31r). Chapter 7 ends imperfectly on f. 57r (f. 57 remains blank) and continue on f. 58r.
ff. 99v-100r: Alcuin, Carmina (Ejusdem ad lectorem), Alcuin's commentary on Ecclesiastes ending with a dedication in verses addressed to the reader.
ff. 100v-127v: Pseudo-Alcuin, Vox ecclesie (commentary on the Song of Songs).
ff. 127v-141r: Augustine, Homily, De disciplina Christiana.
ff. 141v-142r: Anonymous, extracts from Gregory homiliae .xl. in Evangelia written by an English hand of the mid-10th century.
Decoration:
Rustic capital initials. Rubric in capital letters.
Quire signatures throughout.
Pen trials in the margins (ff. 42v, 142r).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002046041", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 213: Alcuin, Expositio in Ecclesiasten with prologue by Alcuin; Alcuin, Carmina lxxvi; Pseudo-Alcuin, Vox ecclesie (a commentary on the Song…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046041 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 213 : Alcuin, Expositio in Ecclesiasten with prologue by Alcuin; Alcuin, Carmina lxxvi; Pseudo-Alcuin, Vox ecclesie (a commentary on the… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0212]/040-002046041
- 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_213 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0875
- End Date:
- 0899
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 9th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 210 x 180mm (text space: 140 x 110mm).
Foliation: ff. 142 (+ 9 unfoliated paper flyleaves: 5 at the beginning and 4 at the end).
Script: Caroline and Anglo-Saxon square minuscule.
Binding: Post-1600, brown leather with gold-tooling decoration.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
France.
Provenance:
England, mid-10th century: an addition of an English work (f. 141v-142r), see: Gameson, 'Anglo-Saxon Scribes and Scriptoria', 2012, p. 350 n19.
The Benedictine cathedral priory of St Peter, St Paul and St Swithun.(Old Minster), Winchester: inscription 'Sancti Swithuni Winton' (f. 1r).
The Benedictine cathedral priory of New Minster, York: inscribed 'eborum' (f. 1r).
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; a short table of content added by their librarian, Humfrey Wanley at the top of f. 1r.
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.
- Information About Copies:
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Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk.manuscripts/.
- Publications:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: The British Museum, 1808-12), vol. 1, p. 68.
Cyril 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: The Trustees of the British Museum, 1972), pp. 356, 366, 375.
Neil R. Ker, Medieval libraries of Great Britain: A list of surviving books, 2nd ed. supplemented by Andrew G. Watson (London: Office of the Royal Historical Society, 1987), p. 200.
Alcuino: Commeto al Cantico dei cantici, con I commenti anonimi 'Vox ecclesie' e 'Vox Antique ecclesie' ed. by Rossana E. Guglielmetti (Florence: SISMEL Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2004), p. 189.
Francesca S. D'Imperio and Rossana E. Guglielmetti, 'Alcuinus Eboracensis epc.' in La trasmissione dei testi latini del medioevo: Te. Tra. II, ed. by Paolo Chiesa and Lucia Caastaldi (Florence: SISMEL Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2005), p. 29.
Francesca S. D'Imperio, 'Le fonti nella 'recensio' dei commentary biblici carolingi: Alcuino lettore di Girolamo', Filologia mediolatina, 15 (2008), 18-43.
Rossana E. Guglielmeti, 'Tradizione manoscritta e fortuna del comment al Cantico di Giusto d'Urgell', in Il Cantico dei cantici nel medioevo, ed. by Rossana E. Guglielmetti, (Florence: SISMEL Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2008), p. 178.
Gernot R. Wieland, 'A survey of Latin Manuscripts', in Working with Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts ed. by Gale R. Owen-Crocker ( Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2009), p. 125
David Ganz, 'Handschriften der Werke Alkuins aus dem 9. Jahrhundert', in Alkuin von York und die geistige Grundlegung Europas. Akten der Tagung vom £). September bis zum 2. Oktober 2004 in der Stiftsbibliothek St Gallen, ed. by Ernst Tremp and Karl Schmuki (St Gallen: Verlag am Klosterhof, 2010), pp. 185-94.
Richard Gameson, 'Anglo-Saxon Scribes and Scriptoria', in The History of the Book in Britain, I, c. 400-1100 ed. by Richard Gameson ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 2012), p. 30 n. 19.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)