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Harley MS 2713
- Record Id:
- 040-002048544
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048544
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x0003db
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100056036209.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2713
- Title:
- Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae (excerpts from books 1-2); Glosulae super Priscianum minorem; Boethius's commentary on Porphyry's Isagoge
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript consists of three different parts, bound together at the early modern period.
The first part (ff. 1r-34v) was produced in Northeastern France, in the fourth quarter of the 9th century. The second part (ff. 35r-42v) was written in 12th-century France, while the last volume (ff. 43r-64v) was written in 12th-century Germany.
The second part was originally bound together with Burney MS 238 (ff. 13r-29r, f. 37r) and Orléans, Bibliothèque municipale MS 90 (pp. 359-338). These three manuscripts together contained the entire Glosulae super Priscianum minorem (Gloss on Priscianus Minor) [see Kneepkens, 'Master Guido' (1978)].
Contents:
ff. 1r-34v: Isidore of Seville (d. 636), Etymologiae (Etymologies), excerpts from Books 1-2.
ff. 35r-41r: 'Master Guido', Glosulae super Priscianum minorem (Commentary on Priscian's Institutes of Grammar, books 17:142-28:12), beginning: '[...] tuas vel meas intelligeretur', ending: 'Sed etian in alio sensu quam possessoris invenis datiuum'.
ff. 41v-42v: Extracts from Hugh of Saint-Victor (b. c. 1096, d. 1141)'s De operibus trium dierum (On the Works of Three Days), beginning: 'Invisibilia autem Dei a creatura mundi per ea que facta sunt intellecta conspiciuntur'.
ff. 43r-64v: Boethius (b. c. 480, d. 524), commentary on Porphyry's Isagoge.
Decoration:
Large initial with interlace decoration including zoomorphic motifs in silver, green and brown, and title in display capitals highlighted in silver and green (f. 1r). Initials with interlace and foliate decoration highlighted in silver, green and/or yellow. Titles in display capitals highlighted in silver. Initials highlighted in silver and/or green. Rubrics in display capitals. (ff. 1r-34v).
Initial with interlace and foliate decoration in red (f. 43r). Marginal note in display capitals in silver, showing its red preparation ground (f. 55r). Initial in red added over erasure (f. 29v).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- England and France 700-1200 Project
Harley Collection - Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002048544 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 2713 : Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae (excerpts from books 1-2); Glosulae super Priscianum minorem; Boethius's commentary on… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[2714]/040-002048544
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100056036209.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0800
- End Date:
- 1199
- Date Range:
- 9th century-12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 160/80 x 115/25 mm (text space 125/45 x 80/85 mm).
Foliation: ff. 64 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end).
Script: Caroline minuscule; Protogothic.
Binding: Post-1600. 'Harleian' binding of gilt-tooled red morocco attributable to Thomas Elliott; marbled endpapers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Northeastern France, France and Germany.
Contents:
The first part (ff. 1r-34v) was produced in Northeastern France (see Bischoff, Katalog (2004)); the second part (ff. 35r-42v) was probably written in France (see Kneepkers, 'Master Guido' (1978)), while the third part (43r-64v) was written in 12th-century Germany (see Codices Boethiani (1995)) .
Johann Georg Graevius (b. 1632, d. 1703), German classical scholar and critic: probably his manuscript no. 42 (see Clark, 'The Library of J. G. Graevius' (1891)); sold to Wilhelm in 1703 with the rest of his library (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)).
Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (b. 1658, d. 1716), owner of a library in Düsseldorf: bought the entire Graevius library in 1703 (see Wright 1972).
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 October 1725 (see Wright and Wright, The Diary of Humfrey Wanley (1966); Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)).
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 Octobris, A.D. 1725’ (ff. 1r, 35r, 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.
- Information About Copies:
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- Publications:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: [n. pub.], 1808-12), II (1808) , no. 2713.
Albert C. Clark, 'The Library of J. G. Graevius', The Classical Review, 5 (1891), 365-72 (p. 370).
Wilhelm Köhler, 'Die Karolingishen Miniaturen', in Zweiter Bericht über die Denkmäler Deutscher Kunst (Berlin: Reimer, 1912), pp. 52-77 (p. 57).
Richard Hunt, 'Studies on Priscian in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries: I. Petrus Helias and his Predecessors', Medieval and Renaissances Studies, 2:1 (1941-1943), pp. 1-56.
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, p. 385 n. 6.
Cyril E. Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 169, 367, 415.
Corneille Henri Kneepkens, 'Master Guido and His View on Government: On Twelfth Century Linguistic Thought', Vivarium, 16 (1978), 108-41.
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.132.
Codices Boethiani : A Conspectus of Manuscripts of the Works of Boethius, ed. by M. T. Gibson and Lesley Smith, Warburg Institute Surveys and Texts, 25 (London: Warburg Institute, 1995- ), I: Great Britain and the Republic of Ireland, pp. 142-43 no. 121.
I. Rosier-Catach, 'Priscien, Boèce, les Glosulae in Priscianum, Abélard: les enjeux des discussions autour de la notion de consignification', Histoire Épistémologie Langage, 25:2 (2003), 55-84 (p. 70).
Berhard Bischoff, Katalog der festländischen Handschriften des neunten Jahrhunderts (mit Ausnahme der wisigotischen) (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1998- ), II (2004): Laon-Paderborn, ed. by Birgit Ebersperger, no. 2450.
I. Rosier-Catach, 'Priscian on Divine Ideas and Mental Conceptions: The Discussions in the Glosulae in Priscianum, the Notae Dunelmenses, William of Champeaux and Abelard', in The Many Roots of Medieval Logic: The Aristotelian and the Non-Aristotelian tradition, ed. by John Marenbon (Leiden: Brill, 2007), pp. 89-107 (p. 90).
L'Edition Critique des Oeuvres D'Isidore de Seville: Les Recensions Multiples ed. by A. Andres Sanz, J. Elfassi and J.C. Martin (Paris: Institut d'Etudes Augustiniennes, 2008) pp. 195-230.
A. Grondeux, I. Rosier-Catach, 'Les Glosulae super Priscianum et leur tradition', in Arts du langae et théologie aux confins des XIe et XIIe siècles: Textes, maîtres, débats, ed. by I. Rosier-Catach (Turnhout: Brepols, 2011) pp. 107-79 (p. 112).
'London, British Library, Harley 2713', at 'Innovating Knowledge', ed. by Evina Steinová ((Huygens Institute, Amsterdam, 2021), online at https://db.innovatingknowledge.nl/#detail/M0171 [accessed 28.01.2022].
- 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.