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Harley MS 1924
- Record Id:
- 040-002047755
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002047755
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000709.0x0001b0
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100056035068.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1924
- Title:
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Bede, Life of Cuthbert; Miracles of St Cuthbert
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-48v: Bede, Vita Sancti Cuthberti (Life of St Cuthbert), preceded by a prologue (ff. 1r-2v) and capitula (ff. 2v-3v), ending at chapter 42: 'et involutum novo amictu corpus levique in theca reconditum supra pavimentum sanctuarii composuerunt' (f. 48v). Chapters 41 and 44-46 are lacking.
ff. 49r-71r: A compilation of seven posthumous miracles of St Cuthbert that includes excerpts from Historia de Sancto Cuthberto (History about St Cuthbert). An 8th miracle follows the compilation and is written by a different but contemporary hand. This last miracle involves two Norwegian monks, beginning: 'Quale miraculum post dicessum vestrum acciderit' (ff. 70v-71r).
Decoration:
Large inhabited initial in red, with washes in green, blue, and yellow (f. 4r). Large initial in brown with penwork foliate decoration in red, and washes in blue, green, and yellow (f. 1r). Initials in red or blue. Small initials in brown. Rubrics in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- England and France 700-1200 Project
Harley Collection - Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002047755", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 1924: Bede, Life of Cuthbert; Miracles of St Cuthbert" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002047755 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 1924 : Bede, Life of Cuthbert; Miracles of St Cuthbert - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[1926]/040-002047755
- 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_100056035068.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1150
- End Date:
- 1174
- Date Range:
- 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 210 x 145 mm (text space: 140 x 90 mm)
Foliation: ff. 71 ( + 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + at the end).
Script: Protogothic.
Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house. Rebound in 1967.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Normandy, Northwestern France or England.
Provenance:
The Benedictine cathedral priory of St Cuthbert, Durham: letter mark 'D' (f. 1); an erased 14th-century ownership inscription (f. 1r, upper margin); originally bound together with Oxford, Bodleian, Digby MS 41 ( ff. 91, 91*, 92, 101) from Durham, which contained a list of Durham relics; listed in its catalogue according to Watson, Medieval Libraries of Great Britain (1987), p. 30.
Thomas Gascoigne (b. 1403, d. 1458), theologian and university administrator: notes in his hand throughout, notably 'IHC' M[aria]' (e. g., ff. 11-13, 70-71 passim).
? Durham College (now Trinity College), Oxford: in Oxford, according to Thomas Gascoigne's notes (see Ker, 'Membra Disiecta', (1938)); possibly listed in its catalogue (see Watson, Medieval Libraries of Great Britain (1987), p. 54).
?Richard Bell (b. c. 1410, d. 1496), monk of Durham, later bishop of Carlisle: ?his notes on Bede's Life of St Cuthbert and other texts (e. g., 13r, 71r), (see Sharpe, A Handlist of the Latin Writer in Great Britain (2001), p. 459).
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:
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Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at 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. 1924.
Neil R. Ker, 'Membra disiecta', British Museum Quarterly, 12 (1938), 133-35 (pp. 133-34).
Bertram Colgrave, Two lives of St Cuthbert: Text, Translation and Notes (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1940), pp. 28-29.
Bertram Colgrave, 'The Post-Bedan Miracles and Translations of St Cuthbert', in The Early Cultures of North-West Europe (H. M. Chadwick Memorial Stuides), ed. by Sir Cyril Fox and Bruce Dickins (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1950), pp. 305-32 (p. 319, no. 4 (as 'H1')).
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. 73.
A. J. Piper, 'The Libraries of the Monks of Durham', in Medieval Scribes, Manuscripts and Libraries: Essays Presented to N. R. Ker, ed. by Malcolm B. Parkes and Andrew G. Watson (London: Scolar Press, 1978), pp. 213-49 (p. 245 n. 101).
Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books, ed. by N. R. Ker, Supplement to the Second Edition, ed. by Andrew G. Watson, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 15 (London: The Royal Historical Society, 1987), pp. 30, 54.
Anne Lawrence-Mathers, Manuscripts in Northumbria in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries (Woodbridge: Brewer, 2003), pp. 171-72, figs 65a, 65b.
Richard Sharpe, A Handlist of the Latin Writers of Great Britain and Ireland before 1540 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2001), p. 459.
John Crook, English Medieval Shrines (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2011), p. 103.
Richard Sharpe and James Willoughby, Medieval Libraries of Great Britain (Oxford: The Bodleian Libraries, 2015) http://mlgb3.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/mlgb/book/2399/?search_term=harley%201924&page_size=500 [accessed 22 September 2016].
- 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.