Hard-coded id of currently selected item: . JSON version of its record is available from Blacklight on e.g. ??
Metadata associated with selected item should appear here...
Harley MS 1700
- Record Id:
- 040-002047531
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002047531
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000709.0x0000d0
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100056033330.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1700
- Title:
-
The Twelve Minor Prophets with marginal and interlinear glosses.
- Scope & Content:
-
This manuscript contains the Twelve Minor Prophets of the Old Testament with prologues and commentary in interlinear and marginal glosses.
Contents:
f. 1* recto: A prologue to the Book of Amos, Chapter 2 (‘Prefatio Jeronimi in Amos propheta super secundum librum’).
ff. 1r-1v: A prologue to the books of the Twelve Minor Prophets.
ff. 2r-25r: The Book of Hosea.
ff. 25r-38r: The Book of Joel.
ff. 38r-57r: The Book of Amos.
ff. 57r-60r: The Book of Obadiah.
ff. 60r-65v: The Book of Jonah.
ff. 66r-76r: The Book of Micah.
ff. 76r-81r: The Book of Nahum.
ff. 81v-87v: The Book of Habakkuk.
ff. 87v-92v: The Book of Zephaniah.
ff. 92v-96v: The Book of Haggai.
ff. 97r-114r: The Book of Zechariah.
ff. 114r-118v: The Book of Malachi.
ff. 119r-120v : The Book of Zechariah 11.1-12.2 (identical to ff. 109r-110r).
f. 120v: A list of the kings of Israel and a list of the kings of Juda, with marginal glosses.
[f. 1*verso is blank].
Decoration:
1 large initial in colours and gold with foliate motifs in a green frame with a red background (f. 2r). 1 large puzzle initial in red and green with blue and red penwork decoration (f. 93r). 11 large initials in red, green, or blue, some with blue, green, red and blue penwork decoration including foliate motifs (ff. 25v, 38v, 57v, 60v, 66r, 76v, 82r, 85v, 87v, 97r, 114v). Medium initials in blue or green with red penwork, or in red with blue penwork. Small initials in blue, red, yellow, or green. Capitals and paraphs highlighted with red. 1 manicule drawn in pencil (f. 62v).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- England and France 700-1200 Project
Harley Collection - Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002047531", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 1700: The Twelve Minor Prophets with marginal and interlinear glosses." , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002047531 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 1700 : The Twelve Minor Prophets with marginal and interlinear glosses. - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[1702]/040-002047531
- 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_100056033330.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1175
- End Date:
- 1224
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 12th century-1st quarter of the 13th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
Please request the physical items you need using the online collection item request form.
Digitised items can be viewed online by clicking the thumbnail image or digitised content link.
Readers who have registered or renewed their pass since 21 March 2024 can request physical items prior to visiting the Library by completing
this request form.
Please enter the Reference (shelfmark) above on the request form.If your Reader Pass was issued before this date, you will need to visit the Library in London or Yorkshire to renew it before you can request items online. All manuscripts and archives must be consulted at the Library in London.
This catalogue record may describe a collection of items which cannot all be requested together. Please use the hierarchy viewer to navigate to individual items. Some items may be in use or restricted for other reasons. If you would like to check the availability, contact our Reference Services team, quoting the Reference (shelfmark) above.
- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
-
Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 280 x 200 mm (text space: approximately 190 x 160 mm, including gloss).
Foliation: ff. 1* + 120 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 4 at the end); 1 unfoliated parchment stub between f. 105 and f. 106; the quires have been mounted on paper guards.
Script: Protogothic.
Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house. Red half leather binding with Harley’s bookplate gold-stamped on the upper and lower cover, the spine inscribed in gold : ‘MINOR PROPHETS WITH COMMENTARIES’. Rebound in 1966.
- Custodial History:
-
Origin: England or France.
Provenance:
Unknown 12th- or 13th-century owners: an added prologue to the Book of Amos in an English (?) 12th- or 13th-century hand (f. 1* recto); titles of the books of the Twelve Minor Prophets added in the upper margin throughout the manuscript; the title of the hymn ‘Sancti spiritus assit nobis gratia’ added to the lower margin of f. 119r.
Henry Worsley (b. 1675, d. 1747), scholar and manuscript collector, envoy at the Court of Portugal (1714-21) and governor of Barbados (1721-31); donated by him to Robert Harley together with other manuscripts from Worsley's collection (now Harley 1585-1747, 1811, 1812) before December 1712 (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), pp. 361-62).
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:
-
Full digital coverage available for this manuscript; see Digitised Manuscripts, https://bl.uk/manuscripts/.
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), II (1808), no. 1700.
Bernhard Lambert, Bibliotheca Hieronymiana manuscripta: La tradition manuscrite des œuvres de Saint Jérôme, Insturmenta Patristica, 4:2 (Steenbrugge: Abbey of St Peter, 1969), p. 168.
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. 361.
- 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.