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Harley MS 658
- Record Id:
- 040-002046487
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046487
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x0000a4
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100059469793.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 658
- Title:
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Glossed Gospel of St John; Peter of Poitiers, Compendium Historiae in Genealogia Christi; Theological and computistical tracts; Richard of St Victor, Commentary on Joel and Nahum
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains a miscellany of study aids for the Bible, bound together with a collection of scientific, poetic and theological diagrams. It includes the Gospel of St John with glosses, the Compendium Historiae in Genealogia Christi (A Compendium of History in the Genealogy of Christ) by Peter of Poitiers (d. 1215) and the Commentary on the Old Testament Books of Joel and Nahum by Richard of St Victor (b. 1110, d. 1173).
Contents:
ff. 3r-32r: The Gospel of St John with marginal and interlinear glosses by Gilbert of Poitiers (b. 1076, d.1154).
f. 32v: Six theological questiones in a 13th-century hand.
ff. 33r-38v: Peter of Poitiers, Compendium Historiae in Genealogia Christi.
ff. 39r-121v: A series of diagrams on theological and scholastic themes followed by a collection of theological and computistical tracts, including, among other texts, a Commentary on the Patriarchs, sermons and a collection of materials for the composition of sermons (ff. 42v-52r), an anonymous computistical treatise (ff. 53r-56v); an extract from the Moralium Dogma Philosophorum (The Morals of the Philosophers' dogma) (ff, 75v-78v) and Stephen Langton (b. c. 1165, d. 1228)'s Commentary on Isaiah (ff. 83r-119r).
ff. 122r-163v: Richard of St Victor, Commentary on Joel and Nahum, beginning: ‘Incipit Ioel propheta. Iohel filius Fatuel in ordine prophetarum secundus’.
Decoration:
A chronological table of kings of Judea and Israel (f. 39r), a schematic plan of the city of Jerusalem and its surroundings (f. 39v), a diagram of the brain and humours (f. 40r), of the virtues (f. 40r), vices (f. 40v), of the muses (f. 40v), of the soul (f. 41r); a diagram-taxonomy of arts and sciences (f. 41r); a diagram of metrical feet (f. 41v); a tree of consanguinity (f. 41v); 2 large initials in red with minor penwork decoration (f. 3r). Small initials in red or blue, with pen-flourishing in the alternate colour. Simple initials in red, green or blue, occasionally with some penwork decoration in the same or an alternate colour. Green or red paragraph marks. 2 large puzzle initials in red and blue (ff. 122r, 123r). Some large and numerous smaller initials in red, blue or green, occasionally with reserved line or some penwork decoration.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- England and France 700-1200 Project
Harley Collection - Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046487 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 658 : Glossed Gospel of St John; Peter of Poitiers, Compendium Historiae in Genealogia Christi; Theological and computistical tracts;… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0658]/040-002046487
- 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_100059469793.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1175
- End Date:
- 1249
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of 12th-1st half of the 13th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 350 x 250 mm (text space: 255/260 x 150/155 mm, in two columns).
Foliation: ff. 163 (+ 4 paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end).
Script: Gothic.
Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house binding.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England or France.
Provenance:
Ricardus Hutton, rector of Albury in Surrey in 1513: inscribed with his name (ff. 3r, 33r, 57r, 122r, 138r) (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), pp. 201-02).
William Camden (b. 1551, d. 1623), antiquary: inscribed title and table of contents (ff. 1r, 2r).
Sir Simonds D'Ewes (b. 1602, d. 1650), 1st baronet, diarist, antiquary, and friend of Sir Robert Cotton: inscribed no. '81' (f. 1r) and foliated the manuscript.
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.
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:
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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. 398 (no. 658).
John Hennig, 'The Manuscript Sources of Early Scholastic Theology', Scriptorium: Revue Internationale des Études Relatives aux Manuscrits, 4 (1950), 309-13 (p. 311).
Andrew G. Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes (London: British Museum, 1966), pp. 141 (no. A315), 291 (B42).
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. 93, 131, 202.
Hans-Eberhard Hilpert, 'Geistliche Bildung und Laienbildung: Zur Überlieferung der Schulschrift Compendium historiae in genealogia Christi (Compendium veteris testamenti) des Petrus von Poitiers (+ 1205) in England', Journal of Medieval History, 11 (1985), 315-31 (p. 329).
William H. Monroe, 13th and Early 14th Century Illustrated Genealogical Manuscripts in Roll and Codex: Peter of Poitiers’ Compendium, Universal Histories and Chronicles of the Kings of England (unpublished doctoral dissertation, Courtauld Institute of Art, 1990), pp. 172, 508–09.
Stella Panayotova, 'Peter of Poitiers's Compendium in Genealogia Christi: the Early English Copies', in Belief and Culture in the Middle Ages: Studies Presented to Henry Mayr-Harting, ed. by Richard Gameson and Henrietta Leyser (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), pp. 327-41 (pp. 329, 331, 336, 339, 340, 341).
Keith D. Lilley, City and Cosmos. The Medieval World in Urban Form (London: Reaktion Books, 2009), p. 176.
Hanna Vorholt, 'Studying with Maps: Jerusalem and the Holy Land in Two Thirteenth-Century Manuscripts', in Imagining Jerusalem in the Medieval West, ed. by Lucy Donkin and Hanna Vorholt (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), pp. 163-99.
Emily Corran, 'Understanding a Selection of Medical, Theological and Poetic Diagrams in a Thirteenth-Century Book of Biblical Commentaries: British Library, Harley MS. 658', Electronic British Library Journal (2013), 1-27.
- 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.