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Harley MS 2719
- Record Id:
- 040-002048550
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048550
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x0003e1
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100056036405.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2719
- Title:
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Nonius Marcellus, De Compendiosa Doctrina, with glosses
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript consists of the only surviving text of the Latin grammarian Nonius Marcellus (fl. early 4th century), De Compendiosa Doctrina (Compendium on Instruction).This lexigographical work is divided into twenty books ordered according to words used by various authors quoted by Nonius Marcellus. More than a dictionary of Latin usage, the text includes several excerpts of lost works from the Roman Republic. This manuscript belongs to the first family of the text, which is close to the archetype (see Nonii Marcelli De Compendiosa Doctrina libros XX, ed. by Lindsay (1903), I, pp. xxv-xxviii).
Contents:
ff. 1r-177v: Nonius Marcellus, De Compendiosa Doctrina with interlinear and marginal glosses, beginning: 'Index earum rerum que hoc codice continentur Noni Marcelli Peripathetici Tuburgicensis, de compendiosa doctrina per litteras ad filium. De proprietate sermonum. Senium est tedium et odium: dictum a senectute'; Book 1: 'De proprietate sermonum' (ff. 1r-32r); Book 2: 'De honestis et nove veterum dictis per litteras' (ff. 32r-78r); Book 3: 'De indiscretis generibus per litteras' (ff. 78r-93r); Book 4: 'De varia significatione sermonum per litteras' (ff. 94r-143v); Book 5: 'De differentia similium significationum per litteras' (ff. 143v-151r); Book 6: 'De in propriis' (ff. 151r-156r); Book 7: 'De contrariis generibus verborum' (ff. 156v-160r); Book 8: 'De mutata declinatione' (ff. 160r-163r); Book 9: 'De generibus et casibus' (ff. 163r-165r); Book 10: 'De mutatis coniugationibus' (ff. 165r-166v); Book 11: 'De indiscretis adverbiis' (ff. 166v-168v); Book 12: 'De doctorum indagine' (ff. 168v-172r); Book 13: 'De genere navigiorum' (ff. 172r-173r); Book 14: 'De genere vestimentorum' (ff. 173r-174v); Book 15: 'De genere vasorum vel poculorum' (ff. 174v-175v); Book 16 is lacking; Book 17: 'De genere calciamentorum vel colore vestimentorum' (ff. 175v-176r); Book 18: 'De generibus ciborum vel pomorum' (ff. 176r-v); Book 19: 'De genere armorum' (ff. 176v-177v); Book 20: 'De propinquitate' (f. 177v), ending: 'et maxime in Afranio et iuris vetustissimis scriptoribus'.
Decoration:
Title in display capitals of classical design in silver and ink, partly showing the red preparation ground for the silver (f. 1r).
Titles in rustic capitals in silver now mostly showing the red ground (ff. 54v-93r).
Initials in silver, mostly showing the red ground (ff. 54r-93r).
Title in uncial capitals and initial in red (f. 94r). Initials highlighted in yellow or red (ff. 94r-165r).
Some rubrics in red. Quires signatures with Roman numerals.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- England and France 700-1200 Project
Harley Collection - Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002048550", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 2719: Nonius Marcellus, De Compendiosa Doctrina, with glosses" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002048550 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 2719 : Nonius Marcellus, De Compendiosa Doctrina, with glosses - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[2720]/040-002048550
- 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_100056036405.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Breton
Greek, Ancient
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0850
- End Date:
- 0874
- Date Range:
- 3rd quarter of the 9th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 250 x 215 mm (text space: 170 x 140 mm).
Foliation: ff. 177 (+ 3 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning + the end).
Collation: Gatherings mostly of 8, with quire signature in Roman numerals in the lower margin of the last verso of each gathering, starting a new sequence from f. 94.
Script: Caroline minuscule.
Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house. Rebound in the 19th century.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Western France.
Provenance:
An unknown scriptorium in Brittany: marginal glosses by contemporary and later hands, including a number in Breton added in or near Brittany (see Reynolds, Texts and Transmission (1983)).
Ricardus Franciscus (fl. 15th century), scribe: see Christianson, ‘Evidence for the Study of London’s Late Medieval Manuscript-Book Trade' (1989).
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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- Publications:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), II (1808), no. 2719.
John Henry Onions, Nonius Marcellus De compendiosa doctrina, Harleian ms. 2719, Classical series, vol. I, pt. II (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1882).
[E. Maunde Thompson and G. F. Warner], Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts in the British Museum, 2 vols (London: British Museum, 1881-1884), Part II, Latin, p. 73.
Nonii Marcelli de Compendiosa Doctrina libros XX, ed. by Wallace M. Lindsay, 3 vols (Leipzig: Teubner, 1903), I, pp. xxvi-xxx [edition of the text].
Wilhelm Köhler, 'Die Karolingishen Miniaturen', in Zweiter Bericht über die Denkmäler Deutscher Kunst (Berlin: Reimer, 1912), pp. 52-77 (p. 57).
Deutsche Handschriften in England, ed. by Robert Priebsch, 2 vols in 1 vol (Hildesheim: Olms, 1979; first publ. Erlangen: Junge, 1896-1901), II, Das British Museum mit einem anhang über die Guildhall-Bibliothek, no. 17.
Herbert Thoma, 'Altdeutsches aus Londoner Handschriften', Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und Literatur, 73 (1951), 197-271 (p. 230).
L. D. Reynolds, 'Nonius Marcellus', in Texts and Transmission: A Survey of the Latin Classics, ed. by L. D. Reynolds (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983), pp. 248-52 (pp. 249-52).
Paolo Gatti, 'Note sulla tradizione medievale di Nonio Marcello (Libri I-III): II, MS. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 229', in Scire litteras: Forschungen zum mittelalterlichen Geistesleben, ed. by Sigrid Krämer and Michael Berhard (Munich: Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1988), pp. 183-85 (p. 184 n. 11).
Bernhard Bischoff, 'Palaeography and the Transmission of Classical Texts in the Early Middle Ages', in Manuscripts and Libraries in the Age of Charlemagne, trans. and ed. by Michael Gorman, Cambridge Studies in Palaeography and Codicology, 1 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), pp. 115-33 (p. 128).
C. Paul Christianson, ‘Evidence for the Study of London’s Late Medieval Manuscript-Book Trade’, in Book Production and Publishing in Britain 1375-1475, ed. by Jeremy Griffiths and Derek Pearsall (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989), 87-108 (p. 107, n. 43).
Bernhard Bischoff, Katalog der festländischen Handschriften des neunten Jahrhunderts (mit Ausnahme der wisigotischen), aus dem Nachlaß herausgegeben von Birgit Ebersperger, Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für die Herausgabe der Mittelalterlichen Bibliothekskataloge Deutschlands und der Schweiz, 3 vols (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1998-2014), II (2004): Laon-Paderborn, ed. by Birgit Ebersperger, p. 114.
Rolf Bergmann and Stefanie Stricker, Katalog der althochdeutschen und altsächsischen Glossenhandschriften, 6 vols (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2005), II, pp. 880-81 no. 414 [with further bibliography].
- 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.