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Harley MS 2735
- Record Id:
- 040-002048566
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048566
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x000005
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100056037106.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2735
- Title:
- Epitome libri Glossarum, with additions by Heiric of Auxerre
- Scope & Content:
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The Epitome libri glossarum has been glossed by Heiric of Auxerre (b. 841, d. 876), monk of the Benedictine abbey of St-Germain d'Auxerre, theologian, philosopher and hagiographer. He composed and copied ff. 206v-208v.
ff. 1r-206r: Epitome libri glossarum (Summary of the Book of Glosses), abbreviation of the Liber Glossarum (Book of Glosses), a dictionary of etymologies, with Heiric of Auxerre's glosses.
ff. 206v-207r: Heiric of Auxerre, De ratione unciarum, an addition to the gloss on uncia (f. 206v) and De septem cordis lyrae (f. 207r).
ff. 207v-208r: Heiric of Auxerre, Florilegium metricum (Metrical florilegium), including a botanical lexicon and medical recipes.
f. 208v: Heiric of Auxerre, Declinationes grecorum (Greek declensions).
Decoration:
Title in display rustic capitals in silver, showing the red preparation ground (f. 1v).
Rubrics and initials in silver or red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- England and France 700-1200 Project
Harley Collection - Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002048566", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 2735: Epitome libri Glossarum, with additions by Heiric of Auxerre" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002048566 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 2735 : Epitome libri Glossarum, with additions by Heiric of Auxerre - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[2736]/040-002048566
- 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_100056037106.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0800
- End Date:
- 0849
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 9th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 220 x 190 mm (text space 150/155 x145/150 mm, in two columns).
Foliation: ff. 208 (+ 5 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end).
Collation: Gatherings of 8, with quire signatures in the lower margin of the last verso of each gathering.
Script: Caroline minuscule; Heiric of Auxerre's glosses to the Liber Glossarum (ff. 206v-208v) are also copied by him.
Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house. Rebound in 1964. Covers of the 18th-century 'Harleian' binding of gilt-tooled red morocco, attributable to Christopher Chapman, pasted onto modern pastedowns.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: ? Auxerre, Central France.
Provenance:
The Benedictine abbey of St-Germain d'Auxerre, founded in 422: with contemporary glosses, including several by Heiric of Auxerre, who copied ff. 206v-208v (according to Lobrichon, 'Moines et clercs' (1990), Ganz, 'Heiric of Auxerre' (1991) and Bischoff, Katalog (2004);? The Benedictine abbey of St Benoît-sur-Loire, Fleury: according to Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)).
? The Benedictine abbey of St Benoît-sur-Loire, Fleury, founded around 630: (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)).
Pierre Daniel d'Orléans (b. 1530, d. 1604), steward of the abbey of St Benoît-sur-Loire (Fleury), who obtained part of the Abbey's library after its plundering by soldiers in the religious wars of 1562; he also obtained manuscripts from the abbey of St Victor in Paris: his ownership inscription 'Libb. Petri Danielis Aureliani 1565' (f. 1; see Wright and Wright, The Diary of Humphrey Wanley (1966); Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)).
Pierre Séguier (b. 1588, d. 1672), count of Gien, chancellor of France from 1635: (see Wright and Wright,The Diary of Humphrey Wanley (1966), Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)).
Andrew Hay (d. 1754?), dealer: sold to Edward Harley together with other manuscripts from the Séguier collection on 5 September 1720 (see Wright and Wright, The Diary of Humphrey 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, ‘5 Septembris, 1720’ (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.
- 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), I, no. 2735.
[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. 11.
Wilhelm Köhler, 'Die Karolingishen Miniaturen', in Zweiter Bericht über die Denkmäler Deutscher Kunst (Berlin: Reimer, 1912), pp. 52-77 (p. 57).
Edward Kennard Rand, A Survey of the Manuscripts of Tours, Studies in the Script of Tours, 1, 2 vols (Cambridge, Massachusetts, Mediaeval Academy of America, 1929), I, no. 28.
Die Karolingischen Miniaturen, ed. by Wilhelm Köhler and Florentine Mütherich, 6 vols (Berlin: Deutscher Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, 1930-99), 1, ed. by Wilhelm Köhler: Die Schule von Tours, 2 vols, I: Die Ornamentik, pp. 40, 69-71, 97, 113, 367-68, pl. 7d.
Edward Kennard Rand, 'Review of Wilhelm Köhler', Die Karolingischen Miniaturen, Göttingische gelehrte Anzeigen, 193 (1931), 337-51 (p. 340).
G. L. Micheli, L’enluminure du haut moyen age et les influences irlandaises (Brussels: Editions de la connaissance, 1939), p. 191.
Bonifatius Fischer, Lateinische Bibelhandschriften im frühen Mittelalter, Vetus Latina, 11 (Freiburg: Herder, 1985), pp. 126, 258, 342, 366 (as 'L').
Sarah Larrat Keefer and David R. Burrows, 'Hebrew and the Hebraicum in late Anglo-Saxon England', Anglo-Saxon England, 19 (1990), 67-80 (p. 68).
The Eadwine Psalter: Text, Image, and Monastic Culture in Twelfth-Century Canterbury, ed. by Margaret Gibson, T. A. Heslop, and Richard W. Pfaff, Modern Humanities Research Association, 14 (London: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1992), pp.140-41.
Bernhard Bischoff, Katalog der festländischen Handschriften des neunten Jahrhunderts, 3 vols (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1998-2014), II (2004): Laon-Paderborn, ed. by Birgit Ebersperger, no. 2453.
Donald A. Bullough, Alcuin: Achievement and Reputation (Leiden: Brill, 2004), p. 185.
Veronika von Büren, 'Heiricus [Autissiodorensis] monachus', in Clavis des auteurs latins du moyen âge (territoire français, 735-987), Clavis Scriptorum Latinorum Medii Aevi, 3, ed. by M.-H. Jullien (Turhnout: Brepols, 2010), pp. 375-405.
Frank Cinato, Liber Glossarum, ed. by Anne Grondeux (Paris: CNRS, 2012) «http://liber-glossarum.linguist.univ-paris-diderot.fr/node/301» [accessed 7 March 2017].
Franck Cinato, 'Prolégomène à un Catalogue des manuscrits du Liber glossarum. I. Fragments, tradition directe et indirecte', Dossiers d’Histoire Epistémologie Langage, 8 (2015), pp.13-35.
- 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.