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Harley MS 2351

Record Id:

040-002048182

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002048182

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000709.0x00035b

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 2351

Title:

Bible, including the Interpretation of Hebrew Names

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-354v: Bible, including the Interpretation of Hebrew Names, imperfect; Psalms incomplete (only Psalm 1 to the middle of Psalm 5 on f. 127v). Includes the Interpretation of Hebrew Names at the end (ff. 325r-350v).

The manuscript contains a few additions:

ff. 321v-324r: Text with concordance; written in the 13th century.

ff. 351-354v: Readings for certain days; written in the 13th century.

ff. 2v, 18r, 36v, 127v, 234v, 290r: Marginal notes, including ones that give the order of the Pauline Epistles at the beginning of the letter to the Romans (f. 290r); added by various 13th-(?) 15th-century hands.

Decoration:

Numerous large puzzle initials in red and blue with pen-flourishing in the same colours (except in quires viii and ix). The flourishing includes a fantastic animal on f. 1r. Numerous smaller initials in red or blue with pen-flourishing in the other colour. Running titles in red and blue.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002048182

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 2351 : Bible, including the Interpretation of Hebrew Names

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[2352]/040-002048182

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: 175 x 120 mm (written space: 125 x 80 mm), in 2 columns; (125-130 x 90 mm), in 3 columns (ff. 325-354v only).

Foliation: ff. 354 (+ 1 paper flyleaf at the beginning + 2 at the end).

Script: Gothic, above and below the top line.

Binding: British Museum in-house. Rebound on 21 July 1964 (note inside the lower cover).

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Localisation and dating of this manuscript proposed by Patricia Stirnemann.

Provenance :

An unknown (?) 16th-century owner: their partly erased ownership inscription on f. 2r: 'Hic liber [...] congregacioni [...] sancte [...] ibi deputas, ad [...] no. 172’.

John Middleton, owned in the 17th century: inscribed his name on f. 180v.

Conyers Middleton (b. 1683, d. 1750), Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge from 1706, head librarian of the University Library at Cambridge (1721-50), head librarian of the University Library at Cambridge (1721-50); sold on 20 February 1724/5 to Edward Harley (see Diary, ed. by Wright and Wright (1966), II, p. 336 n. 4; Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 239).

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, inscribed as usual by their librarian, Humfrey Wanley ‘20 die Februarii, A.D. 1724/25’ (f. 1r).

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:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), II (1808), p. 664.

The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by Cyril Ernest Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: The Bibliographical Society, 1966), II: 1722-1726, pp. 335-336 (p. 336, n. 4).

Theodor Klauser, Das römische capitulare evangeliorum. Texte und Untersuchungen zu seiner ältesten Geschichte, Liturgiegeschichtliche Quellen und Forschungen, 28 (Munster: Aschendorffschen, 1935), p. LXXV [no. 79].

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. 239.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Places:

England