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Harley MS 876

Record Id:

040-002046705

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002046705

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x00017e

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 876

Title:

Theological miscellany, including Tertullian, Testamenta xii patriarcharum

Scope & Content:

ff. 1r–15r: Tertullian, Testamenta xii patriarcharum, translated by Robert Grosseteste.

ff. 15r–20r: Anonymous versification of Richard of Saint-Victor, Beniamin minor, ‘Incipit libellus a magistro Ricardo de sancto victore prosaice editus. Beniamin ab eodem intitulatus. A quodam in metrum rude redactus. de studio sapientie et eius commendatione. De iacob et uxoribus eius et ancillis earum. et filiis eius. Sunt iacob uxfores lia cum rachele sorores …’

ff. 20v–34v: Honorius Augustodunensis, Elucidarius.

Decoration:

1 puzzle initial in red and blue with pen-flourishing (f. 1r). 1 large initial in blue with red pen-flourishing (f. 15r). Small initials, alternately red or blue; with pen-flourishing in the other colour (ff. 1r–15r). Simple initials in blue (ff. 1r–10v) or red (ff. 20v-34v).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002046705

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 876 : Theological miscellany, including Tertullian, Testamenta xii patriarcharum

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[0876]/040-002046705

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:

1225

End Date:

1249

Date Range:

2nd quarter of the 13th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: parchment.

Dimensions: 250 × 175 mm (written area 190 × 125 mm, in two columns).

Foliation: ff. 34 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 1 at the end).

Script: Gothic, written below top line.

Binding: British Museum in-house.

Custodial History:

Origin:

The Benedictine abbey of St Mary, Reading, Berkshire: originally part of Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Auct. F.3.8, which has a 13th-century ownership inscription stating that it was a gift of brother Aluredus of Dover (fl. c. 1240s): see Coates 1999 nos. 79, 96.

Provenance:

Edward Stillingfleet (b. 1635, d. 1699), bishop of Worcester and theologian (see Wright 1972).

Edward Stillingfleet (b. 1661, d. 1708), physician and Church of England clergyman, son of the former; in 1707 acquired by Robert Harley (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.

Bought c. 1707 from Stillingfleet's son, Edward (d. 1708), physician and Church of England clergyman, by Robert Harley (see Wright 1972, p. 316).

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; see the 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, no. 876.

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. 156.

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. 283, 316.

Alan Coates, English Medieval Books: The Reading Abbey Collections from Foundation to Dispersal (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999), pp. 97, 162.

Rudolf Goy, Die Handschriftliche Überlieferung der Werke Richards von St. Viktor im Mittelalter, Bibliotheca Victorina, 18 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2005), p. 225.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Honorius of Autun, c 1080-c 1155,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000117981982,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/100201145
Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, c 1170-1253,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000123212063,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/86920837
Tertullianus, Quintus Septimius Florens, early Christian writer, ?155-?240