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Harley MS 999
- Record Id:
- 040-002046828
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046828
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x0001f9
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 999
- Title:
- Johannes Baptista Gratia Dei, Liber de confutatione hebraicae sectae (IA.2247.)
- Scope & Content:
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Harley MS 999 is a printed book that was transferred to the Department of Printed Books on 22 February 1872. It now has the shelfmark IA.2247. The book contains Johannes Baptista Gratia Dei's Liber de confutatione hebraicae sectae. The author, a 15th-century medical doctor, was a baptized Jew who wrote this work, an anti-Semitic treatise, in Hebrew. It was subsequently translated into Latin and published in print (see Marx, 'A Catalogue of the Non-Hebrew Books' (1961), p. 73).
Contents:
ff. 1r-141v: Johannes Baptista Gratia Dei, Liber de confutatione hebraicae sectae (Strasbourg: Martin Flach, 1500); with the following title printed on f. 1r: 'Liber de confutatione hebraice secte'; a table of contents entitled 'Tabula prophetiarum' (ff. 2r-3v); the author's letter to Bernardinus Carvajal, Cardinal Bishop of Siguenza, entitled: 'Epistola ad cardinalem' (ff. 4r-4v); the author's letter to Jews, entitled: 'Epistola ad iudeos' (ff. 5r-6v), De confutatione hebraicae sectae (ff. 7r-141v), ending with the colophon: 'Liber de confutatione hebraice secte. finit feliciter. Ex officina providi viri Martini flach civis Argentinensis In vigilia Matthei apostoli et evangeliste Anno millesimo quingentesimo'.
The printed book contains a few additions:
ff. 1*recto-1*verso, 142r-142v: Fragments of a manuscript of the Corpus Juris Civilis; written in the 13th century.
f. 1r: A pencil inscription of the author’s name : ‘Gratia Dei J. B.’; added in the (?) 19th century.
f. 1r: A note from the British Museum: ‘Transferred from the Department of Manuscripts 22 Feburary 1872’.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002046828", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 999: Johannes Baptista Gratia Dei, Liber de confutatione hebraicae sectae (IA.2247.)" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046828 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 999 : Johannes Baptista Gratia Dei, Liber de confutatione hebraicae sectae (IA.2247.) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0999]/040-002046828
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1500
- End Date:
- 1500
- Date Range:
- 1500
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
- Transferred
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper; parchment (f. [ii] and f. [142]).
Dimensions: 205 x 135 mm (text space: 140 x 85 mm).
Folation: ff. 1* + 142 (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning + 1 at the end); ff. 1* and 142 are parchment leaves from a 13th-century manuscript that have been reused as flyleaves for this printed book.
Typeface and Script: Blackletter; Gothic (f. [ii] and f. [142]).
Binding: Gold-tooled mottled brown leather with the initials ‘M. B.’ (Museum Britannicum) goldstamped at the centres; with a fore-edge inscription in brown ink: ‘De confutatione hebraica secte’.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Printed by Martin Flach at Strasbourg, free imperial city (now in Eastern France).
Provenance:
William Hinton (b. 1584, d. ? 1631), Archdeacon of Coventry: according to a note (see below) inscribed on f. 1r (not in Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)).
Samuel Hinton (b. 1597, d. 1668) of Lichfield, Staffordshire, son of William Hinton (above) and Anne Phillips, in 1632: probably inherited the book from his father; his ownership inscription on f. 1r: ‘Sam: Hinton Covent Maij. 7. 1632 Liber Patris’(not in Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)).
Edward Stillingfleet (b. 1635, d. 1699), bishop of Worcester and theologian (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 316).
Edward Stillingfleet (b. 1661, d. 1708), physician and Church of England clergyman, son of the former; in 1707 acquired by Robert Harley (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 316).
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, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), I, p. 502 (no. 999).
Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), p. 316.
Moses Marx, 'A Catalogue of the Non-Hebrew Books: Printed in the Fifteenth Century Now in the Library of the Hebrew Union College', Studies in Bibliography and Booklore, 5 (1961), 62-91 (p. 721) [on the author].
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- Strasbourg, France