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Harley MS 683
- Record Id:
- 040-002046512
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046512
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x0000bd
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 683
- Title:
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Grammatical miscellany
- Scope & Content:
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A schoolbook compiled from at least four pre-existing manuscripts, dating from the early 13th century (ff. 2–19), late 13th century (ff. 32–35, 36–62), and 14th century (ff. 20–31):
f. 1r: Effaced page opening with the word ‘Debeat’ with a decorated six-line initial.
f. 1v: Fragment of the Office for St Martin, with neumes, likely from 9th-century England (Gneuss and Lapidge, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts, no. 424.5).
ff. 2r–11v: John of Garland, Synonyma, beginning with verse introduction, ‘Ad mare ne uideat latrices defer[r]e camino’ (printed in Hunt, Teaching, p. 136), with Anglo-Norman glosses.
ff. 12r–19r: Alexander Neckam, De utensilibus, glossed.
f. 19v: Excerpts from various texts, including Distica Catonis (‘Qui non curaret plus quam narutra rogaret …’).
ff. 20r–31v: John of Garland, Equivoca, with English and Anglo-Norman entries, followed by a short accessus.
ff. 32r–35v: Distigium (Cornutus antiquus), with interlinear glosses and prose commentary, with added verses at the end.
ff. 36r–37v: Fragments of a lemmatized commentary on the opening of Alexander Neckam, De utensilibus.
ff. 38r–54v: Alexander Neckam, De utensilibus, with interlinear gloss and commentary, beginning, ‘In principio huius libri uidendum est quod auctor dicitur magister Alexander’; additions on extra leaves.
ff. 55r–62v: Liber hymnorum, with interlinear glosses and commentary, incomplete.
Decoration:
Most works open with a two-line initial in red or blue.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046512 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 683 : Grammatical miscellany - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0683]/040-002046512
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Anglo-Norman
English, Middle
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0800
- End Date:
- 1399
- Date Range:
- 9th century-14th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: parchment.
Dimensions: 194 × 146 mm.
Foliation: ff. 62 (+ 5 flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end).
Script: Gothic.
Binding: British Library.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Edward Stillingfleet (d. 1699), bishop of Worcester: owned Harley MSS 665–904.
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.
- Publications:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, ed. by Robert Nares and others, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808–12), no. 683.
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), p. 316.
R.W. Hunt, The Schools and the Cloister: The Life and Writings of Alexander Nequam (1157–1217), ed. by Margaret T. Gibson (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984).
Tony Hunt, Teaching and Learning Latin in Thirteenth-Century England, 3 vols (Woodbridge, Suffolk: Brewer, 1991), pp. 39, 136, 138, 140, 178–79, 325.
W. Rothwell, ‘Chaucer and Stratford Atte Bowe’, Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, 74.1 (1992), 3–28 (at p. 8 n. 22), https://doi.org/10.7227/BJRL.74.1.1.Helmut Gneuss and Michael Lapidge, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: A Bibliographical Handlist of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Written or Owned in England up to 1100, Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series, 15 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014), no. 424.5.
Andrew N.J. Dunning, ‘Alexander Neckam’s Manuscripts and the Augustinian Canons of Oxford and Cirencester’ (unpublished PhD diss., University of Toronto, 2016), https://hdl.handle.net/1807/72968.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- John of Garland, c 1195-c 1258,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000468436169,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/64042540
Neckam, Alexander, scholar and abbot of Cirencester, 8 Sep 1157-31 Mar 1217