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Harley MS 2667

Record Id:

040-002048498

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002048498

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x00036d

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 2667

Title:

Miscellaneous compilation

Scope & Content:

The manuscript is composed of two parts (booklets): 1. ff. 2-20 (+ 1 blank page, f. 21) and 22-70 (+1 unfoliated blank page); 2. ff. 71-160; with a table of contents added by a 15th century hand (f. 1r).

Part 1:

ff. 2r-20r: Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus, De re militati.

ff. 22r-70v: Vincent de Beauvais, De eruditione filiorum nobilium.

Part 2:

ff. 71r-147r: Peter Ceffons (Petrus de Ceffons), Centiloquium prefaced with the Epistola Luciferi ad Cleros with other texts and letters to and from Petrus de Ceffons.

ff. 147r-149r: Iohannes presbyter (‘Prester John’), Epistola Manueli Comneno imperatori Graecorum.

ff. 149v-154r: The Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew.

ff. 154r-161r: The Gospel of Nicodemus.

ff. 161r-166v: Nicholas of Amiens, Ars fidei catholicae.

Decoration:

Part 1 (ff. 2r-70v): 2 large initials in red with penwork decoration in red and brown at the beginning the works by Vegetius and Vincent de Beauvais (ff. 2r, 22r). Initials in red. Capital letters highlighted in red.

Part 2 (ff. 71r-166v): 2 drawings in red and brown ink of the dragon Ouroboros (f. 119v) and a cross (f. 130r). 2 puzzle initial in gold and blue with red and blue pen-flourishing, at the beginning of Petrus de Ceffons's Epistola Luciferi ad Cleros and Centiloquium (ff. 72r, 72v). Initials in red, some with blue pen-flourishing. Paraphs in red.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002048498

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 2667 : Miscellaneous compilation

Contains:

Harley MS 2667, ff 2r-20r : Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus, De re militati
Harley MS 2667, ff 22r-70v : Vincent de Beauvais, De eruditione filiorum nobilium
Harley MS 2667, ff 72r-147r : Peter Ceffons, Centiloquium and other texts and letters
Harley MS 2667, ff 147r-149r : Iohannes presbyter (‘Prester John’), Epistola Manueli Comneno imperatori Graecorum
Harley MS 2667, ff 149r-154r : Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew
Harley MS 2667, ff 154r-161r : Gospel of Nicodemus
Harley MS 2667, ff 161r-166v) : Nicholas of Amiens, Ars fidei catholicae

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Hierarchy:

032-002045828[2668]/040-002048498

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Parchment codex.

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1350

End Date:

1399

Date Range:

2nd half of the 14th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimension: 300 x 215 mm (text space: ff. 2r-70v: 220 x 160 mm; ff. 71r-166v: 230 x 160 mm).

Foliation: ff. 167 (+ 8 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves: 4 at the beginning and 4 at the end; 2 unfoliated medieval parchment leaves after ff. 1 (f. [1]) and 166; 1 unfoliated parchment leaf after f. 70; ff. 1 and 167 are medieval parchment flyleaves).

Script: Gothic (ff. 2r-70v) and Gothic cursive (ff. 71r-166v).

Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house binding; rebound in 1966; covers from the previous brown leather 'Harleian' binding are pasted on the inside of the present covers.

Custodial History:

Origin: Southern Netherlands.

Provenance:

The Augustinian Priory Val-Saint-Martin, Louvain: ownership inscriptions 'Est liber hic sancti martini lovanie[n]sis' (ff. 21v, 70v, 124r, 166v) and 'Liber monasterii Canonicorum regularium vallis s[anc]ti martini In lovanio' (f. 71r).

Inscribed : 'P[re]ci[u]m huius libri vi equites' 14th century (f. 167r).

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; the date of acquisition inscribed by Humfrey Wanley, Harleian librarian, '11 die Martii A. D. 1723/4' (f. [1] recto).

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.

Administrative Context:

Southern Netherlands.

Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-1812), II (1808), no 2667.

C. H. Talbot, ‘A List of Cistercian Manuscripts in Great Britain’, Traditio: Studies in Ancient and Medieval History, Thought and Religion, 8 (1952), 402-18 (p. 404).

C. E. Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), p. 228.

W. R. Jones, 'The Heavenly Letter in Medieval England', Medievalia et Humanistica, new series, 6 (1975), 163-78.

Willem Lourdaux, Bibliotheca Vallis Sancti Martini In Lovanio, 2 vols (Leuven: Universitaire Pers Leuven, 1978-1982), I (1978): De Bewaarde Handschriften, pp. 639-50.

Charles R. Shrader, 'A Handlist of Extant Manuscripts Containing the De Re Militari of Flavius Vegatius Renatus', Scriptorium: Revue internationale des études relative aux manuscrits, 33 (1979), 280-305 (p. 290).

Christopher Allmand, The De Re Militari of Vegetius: The Reception, Transmission and Legacy of a Roman Text in the Middle Ages (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), pp. 14, 62, 63, 76, 356.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

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