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Harley MS 461

Record Id:

040-002046289

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002046289

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000596.0x0003ae

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 461

Title:

Richard of Saint-Victor, In uisionem Ezechielis

Scope & Content:

ff. 1r–29v: Richard of Saint-Victor, In uisionem Ezechielis. Concludes with a passage not found in printed editions, ‘De hoc monticulo dixit ysaias. erit mons in uertice montium. cm monticulus. esset paruus. et parua planicies que non posset sufficere … facta regum tam israel quam’, ending imperfectly, with a further addition copied below in a 13th-century hand. For a list of manuscripts of this text (not including this one) see Cahn (1994; additions in 1996: 107).

In the 16th/17th century, the manuscript was bound as one volume with Harley MSS 459-460 and Harley MS 462-463 (see table of contents in Harley MS 459, f. 2v).

Decoration:

Large initial in gold with penwork decoration, on blue, pink, and green grounds (f. 1r). Large initials in red, blue, or green, a few with penwork decoration in another colour. Rubrics in red. Large architectural diagrams inspired by Ezechiel's vision in colours (ff. 4r, 4v, 5v, 7v, 9r, 9v, 11r, 26r, 27v (full-page), 29v, 33r, 36r; and 1 geometrical diagram in red and green ink (f. 25r).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002046289

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 461 : Richard of Saint-Victor, In uisionem Ezechielis

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[0460]/040-002046289

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1175

End Date:

1199

Date Range:

4th quarter of the 12th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Dimensions: 290 × 190 mm (written area 220 × 150 mm).

Foliation: ff. 1* + 39 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves: 1 at the beginning and 1 at the end).

Script: Protogothic.

Binding: Post-1600 binding of brown leather; rebacked.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England (South-West?).

Provenance:

(?) The Augustinian priory of St Mary and St John the Baptist, Lanthony (Secunda), Gloucestershire: Harley MS 460 includes a library catalogue of 1380.

Peter Le Neve (b. 1661, d. 1729), Richmond herald (1704) and Norroy King of Arms (1704), antiquary: inscribed ‘Liber Petri Le Neve Norroy 1704 (f. 1*r); bought from him by Robert Harley in 1704 (Wright 1972).

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:

Select digital coverage available for this manuscript: Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts, https://bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/.

Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), i (1808), no. 460.

Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books, ed. by Neil R. Ker, 2nd edn, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 3 (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), p. 108.

Cyril Ernest 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: British Museum, 1972), pp. 215–16, 219.

W. Cahn, 'Architecture and Exegesis: Richard of St Victor's Ezechiel Commentary and its Illustrations', Art Bulletin, 76 (1994), 53-68.

W. Cahn, Romanesque Manuscripts: The Twelfth Century: A Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in France, 2 vols (London: Harvey Miller, 1996), p. 107.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Related Archive Descriptions:

Harley MS 459
Harley MS 460
Harley MS 462
Harley MS 463