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Harley MS 1775
- Record Id:
- 040-002047606
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002047606
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000709.0x00011b
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1775
- Title:
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Gospels (the 'Harley Gospels', or 'Codex Harleianus')
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript of the Gospels is source 'Z' in the studies of the Latin New Testament (Wordsworth and White; Bonifatius Fischer). Corrections in a contemporary hand in slanting uncial employ a Greek style of syllabification recalling the method of Victor of Capua (as in the Codex Fuldensis). Citations are marked by a diple.
Contents:
1. Modern table of contents (f. 1*);
2. Preface to the canons (ff. 1r-3r);
3. Prologue (ff. 4r-5r);
4. Canon tables (Nordenfalk's First Latin Group) (ff. 6r-15r);
5. The four Gospels: Matthew (ff. 16r-140v), Mark (ff. 141r-223v), Luke (ff. 224r-369v), John (ff. 370-468v), imperfect at the end.
Decoration:
Canon tables in coloured architectural arcades (ff. 6r-15r). Large initials in brown, 3 with simple penwork decoration, at the beginning of each Gospels (ff. 16r, 144r, 232r, 373r). Simple decorated endpieces. Small initials in brown. Some text in red or brown in display capitals.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002047606", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 1775: Gospels (the 'Harley Gospels', or 'Codex Harleianus')" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002047606 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 1775 : Gospels (the 'Harley Gospels', or 'Codex Harleianus') - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[1777]/040-002047606
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Harley_MS_1775 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0575
- End Date:
- 0599
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 6th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment codex.
Dimensions: 180 x 120 mm (text space: 130 x 75 mm).
Foliation: ff. 1* + 469 (+ 5 unfoliated paper flyleaves: 3 at the beginning and 2 at the end; f. 1 is a parchment leaf; f. 469 is a paper flyleaf).
Script: Uncial with running titles in Rustic capitals.
Binding: Post-1600 binding of red leather with gold tooling.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
probably Northern Italy.
Provenance:
In France by the 9th century, according to Lowe: Tironian notes added in a French hand (f. 11r).
Jules Mazarin (b. 1602, d. 1661), born Giulio Raimondo Mazzarino or Mazarini, cardinal from 1641 and first minister of France from 1642, perhaps belonged to him: bound in gold-tooled red morocco binding similar to other manuscripts belonging to him (see Delisle 1868-1881, I, p. 282); part of his library passed by exchange into the Bibliothèque du Roi in 1668.
Bibliothèque du Roi, Paris: includes the royal library shelfmark '4582' (f. 2r); stolen from the royal library in 1707, together with other manuscripts, by Jean Aymon and taken to The Hague (see Wright 1972).
Philip Stubbs (b. 1665, d. 1738), purchased by him from Aymon in 1712 for Robert Harley.
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. Old Harley shelfmark '93 C. 2' and the date '1775' (f. [ii]v)
Edward Harley bequeathed the library to his widow, Henrietta, née Cavendish 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.
- Administrative Context:
- probably Northern Italy.
- Information About Copies:
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Full digital coverage available for this manuscript, see Digitised Manuscripts http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/.
- Publications:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), I, no. 1775.
[E. Maunde Thompson and G. F. Warner], Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts in the British Museum, 2 vols (London: British Museum, 1881-1884), Part II: Latin, pp. 14-15.
Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener, A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, 4th edn, ed. by Edward Miller, 2 vols (London: George Bell & Sons, 1894), II, 76.
Facsimiles of Biblical Manuscripts in the British Museum, ed. by Frederic G. Kenyon (London: British Museum, 1900), no. IX.
Georg Swarzenski, Die Regensburger Buchmalerei des X. und XI. Jahrhunderts, (Leipzig: Hiersemann, 1901), pp. 8, 17 n. 22.
British Museum Bible Exhibition 1911: Guide to the Manuscripts and Printed Books exhibited in Celebration of the Tercentenary of the Authorized Version (London: British Museum, 1911), no. 12.
Wilhelm Köhler, 'Die Karolingishen Miniaturen', in Zweiter Bericht über die Denkmäler Deutscher Kunst (Berlin: Reimer, 1912), pp. 52-77 (p. 56).
Codices Latini Antiquiores, ed. by E. A. Lowe, 11 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1934-1966), II: Great Britain and Ireland (1935), no. 197.
G. L. Micheli, L’enluminure du haut moyen age et les influences irlandaises (Brussels: Editions de la connaissance, 1939), 31, 76, 93.
Wilhelm Koehler, ‘The Fragments of an Eighth-century Gospel Book in the Morgan Library (M. 564), in Studies in Art and Literature for Belle da Costa Greene, ed. by Dorothy Miner (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1954), pp. 238-65 (p. 255, as 'Z').
Otto Pächt, C. R. Dodwell, and Francis Wormald, The St. Albans Psalter (Albani Psalter) (London: Warburg Institute, 1960), p. 100.
Patrick McGurk, Latin Gospel Books, Les Publications de Scriptorium, 5 (Brussels and Amsterdam, 1961), pp. 35-36.
Patrick McGurk, Latin Gospel Books from A. D. 400 to A. D. 800 (Paris: Érasme, 1961), no. 26.
Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 57, 237, 266.
Bonifatius Fischer, Lateinische Bibelhandschriften im frühen Mittelalter, Vetus Latina, 11 (Freiburg: Herder, 1985), pp. 54-55, 60, 63, 91, 131-32, 143, 166, 169, 173, 199, 374-77.
Bonifatius Fischer, Die Lateinischen Evangelien bis zum 10. Jahrhundert, 4 vols (Freiburg: Herder, 1988-1991), I: Varianten zu Matthäus, Vetus Latina die Reste der Altlateinischen Bible: Aus der Geschichte der Lateinischen Bibel, 13, p. 14*.
Aliza Cohen-Mushlin, A Medieval Scriptorium: Sancta Maria Magdalena de Frankendal, Wolfenbütteler Mittelalter-Studien, 3, 2 vols (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1990), I, p. 109 n. 17.
Michael Gullick, Calligraphy (London: Studio Editions, 1990), pl. 3.
Rosamond McKitterick, 'Carolingian Uncial: A Context for the Lothar Psalter', British Library Journal, 16 (1990), 1-15 (fig. 1).
Michelle P. Brown, A Guide to Western Historical Scripts from Antiquity to 1600 (London: British Library, 1990), pl. 5.
Patrick McGurk, ‘The Disposition of Numbers in Latin Eusebian Canon Tables’, in Philologia Sacra: Biblische und patristische Studien für Hermann J. Frede und Walter Thele zu ihrem siebzigsten Geburtstag, ed. by Roger Gryson (Freiburg: Herder, 1993), pp. 242-58 (pp. 243-44, 246).
Carol Farr, The Book of Kells: Its Function and Audience (London: British Library, 1997), pp. 120, 169.
Michelle P. Brown and Patricia Lovett, The Historical Source Book for Scribes (London: British Library, 1999), pl. on p. 44.
Michelle P. Brown, Painted Labyrinth: The world of the Lindisfarne Gospels (London: British Library, 2003), p. 46.
C. M. Kauffmann, Biblical Imagery in Medieval England 700-1500 (London: Harvey Miller, 2003), p. 15, fig 4.
Michelle P. Brown, 'Preaching with the Pen: the Contribution of Insular Scribes to the Transmission of Sacred Text, from the 6th to 9th Centuries', University of London Annual Palaeography Lecture, January 2004, School of Advanced Study, Institute of English Studies, University of London, Centre for Manuscript and Print Studies, Courses & Events, ,http://www2.sas.ac.uk/ies/cmps/Events/Lectures/2003/fulltext.htm [ accessed 3 April 2006], p. 30 n. xcv.
In the Beginning: Bibles before the Year 1000, ed. by Michelle P. Brown (Washington: Freer Gallery of Art & Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, 2006), no. 31 [exhibition catalogue].
Scot McKendrick and Kathleen Doyle, Bible Manuscripts: 1400 Years of Scribes and Scripture (London: British Library, 2007), p. 25, fig. 12.
Sacred: Books of the Three Faiths: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (London: British Library, 2007), p. 79 [exhibition catalogue].
Philip Howard, The British Library: A Treasure House of Knowledge (London: Scala Publishers, 2008), no. 18.
Martin McNamara, The Bible and the Apocrypha in the Early Irish Church (A.D. 600-1200), Instrumenta Patristica et Mediaevalia, Research on the Inheritance of the Early and Medieval Christianity, 66 (Turnhout, Brepols, 2015), pp. 291, 321-322. - Exhibitions:
- Writing: Making Your Mark, British Library, 26 April 2019 - 27 August 2019
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)