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Harley MS 2515

Record Id:

040-002048346

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002048346

MDARK:

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LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 2515

Title:

Eberhard of Béthune, Graecismus with marginal gloss, and other grammatical treatises

Scope & Content:

A composite volume of grammatical treatises, comprising three different manuscripts all datable to the 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 13th century.

Contents:

Part 1:

ff. 1r-27v: Anonymous ['Robertus' of Paris], Summa breve sit, beginning: 'Breve sit quodcumque laboras. non enim magnum est in paucis affluere, sed plurima sub compendio moderari'.

This part contains an addition:

f. 27v: A note: 'Tyriaca magna quam tu composuit'; added in the (?) 14th century.

Part 2:

ff. 28r-42v: Anonymous grammatical treatise, beginning: 'Tanta locutio est superflue orationis adiectio'.

Part 3:

ff. 43r-74v: Eberhard of Béthune, Graecismus with marginal gloss

Decoration:

Initials with pen-flourishing in red and blue. Paraphs in red or blue. Marginal drawings of animals and a queen's head in ink added by an almost contemporary hand (ff. 32r, 32v).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002048346

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 2515 : Eberhard of Béthune, Graecismus with marginal gloss, and other grammatical treatises

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[2516]/040-002048346

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:

1274

Date Range:

2nd quarter of the 13th century-3rd quarter of the 13th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 245 x 165 mm (text space: 175 x 45 mm).

Foliation: ff. 74 (+ 2 unfoliated early modern paper flyleaves at the beginning + 2 the end).

Collation: Gatherings of 8.

Script: Gothic, written below top line.

Binding: Post-1600. 'Harleian' binding of blind- and gilt-tooled mottled brown calf, possibly attributable to Christopher Chapman.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England or France.

Provenance:

The Benedictine abbey of St Ulrich and St Afra in Augsburg (Bavaria, Germany): the first part (ff. 1-27) and third part (ff. 43r-74v) of this manuscript feature its 17th-century ownership inscription (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 56).

Giovanni Giacomo Zamboni (d. 1753), resident in London for the Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (c. 1723-1753), friend of Michael Maittaire (b. 1670, d. 1747), the classical scholar and historian of printing: bought the Wilhelm library sometime before 1724 through Johann Büchels (b. 1659, d. 1738): sold by him to Edward Harley on 20 August (?) and 20 October 1725 (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 367).

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 Augusti, A.D. 1725’ (f. 1r) and ‘20 die Octobris, A.D. 1725’ (ff. 28r, 43r).

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:

Geoffrey L. Bursill-Hall, A Census of Medieval Latin Grammatical Manuscripts, Grammatica Speculativa: Sprachtheorie und Logik des Mittelalters, 4 (Stuttgart: Frommann-Holzboog, 1981), p. 117 (no. 122).

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: [n. pub.], 1808-12), II (1808), p. 697 (no. 2515).

The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by Cyril Ernest Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), II: 1723-1726, pp. 385-86 n. 6.

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. 367, 410.

Corneille Henri Joan Marie Kneepkens, Het iudicium constructionis. Het leerstuk van de constructio in de 2de helft van de 12de eeuw: Een verkennende en inleidende studie gevolgd door kritische uitgaven van Robertus van Parijs, Summa 'Breve sit' en Robert Blund, Summa in arte grammatica en door een werkuitgave van Petrus Hispanus (non-papa), Summa 'Absoluta cuiuslibet, 4 vols (Nijmegen: Ingenium Publishers, 1987), I, p. 131.

Anne Grondeux, 'La Graecismus d'Evrard de Bethune et sa glose', Archivum Latinitatis Medii Aevi, Union académique internationale Bruxelles, 50 (1990-91) 71-101.

Anne Grondeux, Le «Graecismus» d'Evrard de Béthune à travers ses gloses. Entre grammaire positive et grammaire spéculative du XIIIe au XVe siècle, Studia Artistarum, 8 (Brepols: Turnhout, 2000).

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Eberhard [Everard, Évrard, Éverard] of Béthune [Eberhardus Bethuniensis], Flemish grammarian from Arras, d. c 1212,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000115962657,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/12153678

Places:

England
France