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Harley MS 628
- Record Id:
- 040-002046457
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046457
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x000086
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100059467266.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 628
- Title:
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Psalter with gloss in Latin
- Scope & Content:
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This 12th-century manuscripts contains a Psalter with Glossa Ordinaria. Its style of decoration (Channel style) indicates that it was produced in England or France.
Contents:
ff. 1v-227r: The Book of Psalms with Glossa Ordinaria.
ff. 227r-238r: Canticles of Isaiah, Hezekiah, Anna, Moses (Exodus), Habacuc, Moses (Deuteronomy), with glosses.
ff. 238r-241r: The Athanasian Creed (Quicumque Vult).
The manuscript contains two additions:
f. 1r: A 17th-century title page: ‘PSALTERIUM UNA CUM Glossa quae dicitur Ordinaria Et duabus alijs Cantica itidem S. Scripturae ut Esaiae Ezechiae Annae etc. et Symbolum Athanasij’.
f. 242r: A 15th- or 16th-century table of contents: ‘Codex iste continet’.
[ff. 241v, 242r, and 242v are empty].
Decoration:
3 large initials marking the threefold division of the Book of Psalms (Psalms 1, 51, and 101): 1 large puzzle initial in red, blue and gold containing foliate decoration (including a white rose) in colours painted over the original initial (f. 1v) in the 17(?)th century; 2 large initials with foliate interlace, containing zoomorphic figures in colours and gold (ff. 87r, 160v). Large and small initials in red, green, ochre or blue, with foliate penwork decoration in red, blue, green, or ochre; Small initials in red, green, ochre or blue throughout the manuscript. One incipit in display capitals in colours (f. 87r). The manuscript’s title (PSALTERIUM) in display capitals in colours (f. 1v), added in the 17th century.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- England and France 700-1200 Project
Harley Collection - Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002046457", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 628: Psalter with gloss in Latin" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046457 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 628 : Psalter with gloss in Latin - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0628]/040-002046457
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- A parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100059467266.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1125
- End Date:
- 1174
- Date Range:
- 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 280 x 195 mm (text space: 175 x 150 mm, in 3 columns).
Foliation: ff. 242 (f. 242 is an original flyleaf now bound up-side-down; + one original flyleaf at the beginning).
Script: Protogothic.
Binding: Post-1600. Brown leather Sir Simonds d’Ewes binding (without arms), one of two clasps remaining; the spine compartments decorated with D’Ewes trefoil (Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D’Ewes (1966), p. 277).
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England or Northern France.
Provenance:
William Crashawe (bap. 1572, d. 1625/6), Church of England clergyman, religious controversialist and poet: his table of contents on f. 242r (see Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D’Ewes (1966), p. 277; Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), pp. 119, 384).
Sir Simonds d'Ewes (b. 1602, d. 1650), 1st baronet, diarist, antiquary, and friend of Sir Robert Cotton: possibly acquired from Crashaw in 1626 together with Harley MS 105 and Harley MS 207; title-page added and initial overpainted for him (ff. 1r, 1v; see Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D’Ewes (1966), p. 277; Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), pp. 131, 384).
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 Add MS 70478 (formerly Loan 29/254 packet 2).
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.
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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 (1808), p. 392 (no. 628).
Peter John Wallis, ‘The Library of William Crashawe’, Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 2 (1958), 213-28 (p. 227).
Andrew G. Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes (London: British Museum, 1966), p. 277 (no. E. 68).
The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by Cyril E. Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), I: 1715-1723, p. xviii, n. 3.
Cyril E. Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 119, 131, 384.
- 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.