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Harley MS 613

Record Id:

040-002046442

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002046442

MDARK:

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LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 613

Title:

Bible

Scope & Content:

Bible, imperfect: begins in Genesis 34:23; incipit: '[ha]bitantes simul unum efficiemus populum'.

Includes: Genesis (ff. 1r-6v); Exodus (ff. 6v-18v); Leviticus (18v-24v); Numbers (ff. 24v-36r); Deuteronomy (ff. 36r-47r); Jerome's prologue to Judges (ff. 47r-47v); Joshua (ff. 47v-55v); Judges (ff. 55v-64r); Ruth (ff. 64v-65v); Prologue to Kings (ff. 65v-66r); 1 Kings (1 Samuel) (ff. 66r-76v); 2 Kings (2 Samuel) (ff. 76v-85v); 3 Kings (1 Kings) (ff. 86r-96v); 4 Kings (2 Kings) (ff. 97r-104r); Isaiah with Jerome's prologue (ff. 104v-117v); Jeremiah with Jerome's prologue (ff. 117v-135v); Lamentations (ff. 135v-137r); Baruch with a preface (ff. 137v-138v), followed by the epistle of Jeremiah, incipit: 'Propter peccata que peccatis' (ff. 138v-139v); Ezekiel, with Jerome's prologue (ff. 139v-154v); Daniel with Jerome's prologue (ff. 154v-159v); Joel with Jerome's prologue (ff. 159v-160v); Amos with Jerome's prologue (ff. 160v-162r); Obadiah with Jerome's prologue (ff. 162r-162v); Jonah with Jerome's prologue (ff. 162v-163r); Micah with Jerome's prologue (ff. 153r-164v); Nahum with Jerome's prologue (ff. 164v-165r); Habakkuk with Jerome's prologue (ff. 165r-166r); Zephaniah with Jerome's prologue (ff. 166r-166v); Haggai with Jerome's prologue (ff. 167r-167v); Zechariah with Jerome's prologue (ff. 167v-169v); Malachi with Jerome's prologue (ff. 169v-170v); Job with Jerome's prologue (ff. 170v-178r); Proverbs with Jerome's prologue (ff. 178r-184r); Ecclesiastes (ff. 184r-186r); Song of Songs (ff. 186r-187r); Wisdom with Jerome's prologue (ff. 187r-191v); Sirach with Jerome's prologue (ff. 191v-203r); Chronicles with Jerome's prologue (ff. 204r-217v); Ezra with Jerome's prologue (ff. 217v-225r); Ester with Jerome's prologue (ff. 225r-228v); Tobias with Jerome's prologue (ff. 229r-231v); Judith with Jerome's prologue (ff. 231v-235v); 1 Maccabees with Jerome's prologue (ff. 235v-245r); 2 Maccabees (ff. 245r-248v); Gospel of Matthew with a portion of text missing at the beginning (ff. 248v-252r); Gospel of Mark with Jerome's prologue (ff. 252r-258r); Gospel of Luke with Jerome's prologue (ff. 258r-268r); Gospel of John with Jerome's prologue (ff. 258r-275r); Acts with Jerome's prologue (ff. 275v-282r); James with Jerome's prologue, with a portion of the text missing at the end (ff. 282r-282v); 1 Peter 1, with a portion of the text missing at the beginning (ff. 283r-283v); 2 Peter with argumentum (ff. 283v-284r); 1 John with Jerome's prologue on John's epistles and argumentum (ff. 284r-285r); 2 John with argumentum (f. 285r); 3 John with argumentum (ff. 285r-285v); Jude with argumentum (f. 285v); Revelation with Jerome's prologue (ff. 285v-290v); Jerome's prologue to Paul's epistles (ff. 290v-291r); Romans with argumentum and Damasus, Carmen VII, rubric: 'versus sancti Damasi episcopi urbis Rome', incipit: 'Iam dudum Saulus procerum' (ff. 291r-295r); 1 Corinthians with argumentum, with a portion of the text missing at the end (ff. 295r-297v); 2 Corinthians, with a portion of the text missing at the beginning (ff. 298r-300r); Galatians with argumentum (ff. 300r-301r); Ephesians with argumentum (ff. 301r-302r); Philippians with argumentum (ff. 302v-303r); 1 Thessalonians with argumentum (ff. 303r-304r); 2 Thessalonians with argumentum (ff. 304r-304v); Colossians with argumentum (ff. 304v-305r); 1 Timothy with argumentum (ff. 305v-306v); 2 Timothy with argumentum (ff. 306v-307r); Titus with argumentum (ff. 307r-307v); Philemon with argumentum (f. 307v); Hebrews with argumentum (ff. 307v-310v); Psalms in the Gallican version and the so-called Hebrew Psalter (Jerome's Latin translation from Hebrew) written in parallel columns (ff. 311r-343r); Psalm '151' with an explanatory rubric: 'Hic psalmus scriptus david extra numerum cum pugnavit cum goliath hic psalmus in hebreis codicibis non habetur sed ne a lxx interprecibus editus est et icciro repudiantus', incipit: 'Pusillus eram inter meos' (f. 343r). Several rubrics include Hebrew titles of biblical books in Latin transliteration.

Includes marginal glosses.

Decoration:

Large puzzle initials in blue and red with pen-flourishing, some highlighted in yellow and green (e.g., ff. 258r, 311r), and some fully painted in colours (e.g., ff. 241r, 252v, 284r), with display script in blue and red, at the beginning of books. Initials in blue with red pen-flourishing or in red with blue pen-flourishing. Initials and paraph signs in blue or red.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002046442

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 613 : Bible

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[0613]/040-002046442

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:

1200

End Date:

1249

Date Range:

1st half of the 13th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimension: 420 x 310 mm (text space: 260 x 150 mm).

Foliation: ff. 343 + 116* (+ 8 unfoliated flyleaves: 1 parchment leaf and 3 modern paper leaves at the beginning and 4 modern paper leaves at the end). Numerous missing leaves including the entire first quire; margins of several leaves excised (ff. 85, 108, 116*, 118, 119, 125, 129, 127, 133, 140, 153, 156, 175, 177, 190, 207, 211, 214, 235, 294, 301, 302); quire signatures.

Script: Gothic.

Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house binding.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

The Benedictine abbey of St Peter, Gloucester, recovered by brother John Tamese according to the inscription: 'Liber mo[na]st[er]ii S[anc]ti Petri Glouc[estrie] recup[er]at[us] p[er] f[ratrem] Joh[annem] Temese', 14th century (f. 204r)

Thomas Worster, inscribed with his name, 16th century (f. i recto).

Inscribed 'Here lackes 5 leves of a quire / so ... is 24 (?) quires 9 (/) leaves / bought the 29th daie of Aprill 1592 20s' (f. 343v).

William Laud (b. 1573, d. 1645), Archbishop of Canterbury: owned by him according to the information recorded by Humfrey Wanley in the Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts as received from Reverend Comyns.

Comyns, reverend, presented by him to Harley, according to a note in the Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts (see 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.

Administrative Context:

England.

Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-1812), I, no 613.

N. Ker, Medieval Libraries of Great Britain, 2nd edition, (London, 1964), p. 91.

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. 110, 165, 325, 363.

Adelaide Louise Bennett, 'The Place of Garrett 28 in Thirteenth-Century English Illumination' (unpublished doctoral dissertation, Columbia University, 1973), p. 320.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Bentinck, Margaret Cavendish, duchess of Portland, née Harley, collector of art and natural history specimens and patron of arts and sciences, 11 Feb 1715-17 Jul 1785,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000115857160,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/2356861
Gloucester, Benedictine abbey of St Peter, 1022-1540
Harley, Edward, second earl of Oxford and Mortimer, book collector and patron of the arts, 2 Jun 1689-16 Jun 1741,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000108078249,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/160524259
Harley, Henrietta Cavendish, Countess of Oxford and Mortimer, née Holles, patron of architecture, 4 Feb 1694-9 Dec 1755,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000030125833,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/6045563
Harley, Robert, first Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, 5 Dec 1661-21 May 1724,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000083423906
Laud, William, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1573-1645
Worster, Thomas, his name inscribed in Harley MS 613, 16th century