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Harley MS 2736
- Record Id:
- 040-002048567
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048567
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x000006
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100056038199.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2736
- Title:
- Marcus Tullius Cicero, De oratore; Lupus of Ferrières, Carmina 8; excerpts from Venantius Fortunatus's Carmina
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains Cicero (b. 106 BC, d. 43 BC)'s De oratore, copied by Lupus of Ferrières (b. 800, d. 863) around 836, according to Beeson, Lupus of Ferrières (1930). Lupus produced this manuscript perhaps from Eginhard's exemplar (see Beeson, Lupus of Ferrières (1930)).
This volume also includes slightly later additions written by several 10th-century hands (ff. 106v-109v). These contain excerpts from Fortunatus's Carmina and Lupus of Ferrières's Carmina.
Contents:
ff. 1r-106v: Marcus Tullius Cicero, De oratore (On the Orator); ff. 17-24 are bound in the wrong order, two quires lacking after f. 24.
ff. 106v-107r: Excerpts from Venantius Fortunatus (d. after 600), Carmina (Songs), written by a 10th-century scribe.
ff. 107v-108r: Lupus of Ferrières, Carmina 8.
ff. 108r-109v: Excerpts from Venantius Fortunatus, Carmina.
Decoration:
Large initials in brown ink.
Quire marks (Roman numerals in the centre of the lower margin of the verso of the last leaf of the quires).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- England and France 700-1200 Project
Harley Collection - Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002048567", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 2736: Marcus Tullius Cicero, De oratore; Lupus of Ferrières, Carmina 8; excerpts from Venantius Fortunatus's Carmina" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002048567 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 2736 : Marcus Tullius Cicero, De oratore; Lupus of Ferrières, Carmina 8; excerpts from Venantius Fortunatus's Carmina - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[2737]/040-002048567
- 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_100056038199.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0825
- End Date:
- 0849
- Date Range:
- 2nd quarter of the 9th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 220 x 200 mm (text space 145 x 130 mm, in 2 columns).
Foliation: ff. 109 (+ 5 unfoliated paper flyleaves and 2 unfoliated parchment flyleaves at the beginning + 12 unfoliated parchment flyleaves and 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end); a description of this manuscript written by T. S. Pattie is bound between ff. [iii] and [iv].
Script: Caroline minuscule; copied by Lupus of Ferrières, except ff. 106v-109v.
Binding: Post-1600. 'Harleian' binding (restored) of gold-tooled red leather; marbled endpapers. Rebound in 1973.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Fulda, Western Germany or Ferrières-en-Gâtinais, Central France.
Provenance:
Servatus Lupus (b. c. 805, d. 862), abbot of Ferrières 840-62 (Loiret, France): copied by him, according to script characteristics (see Beeson, Lupus of Ferrières (1930) and Pellegrin, 'Les manuscrits de Loup de Ferrières (1957)); Lupus probably copied the manuscript from an exemplar he borrowed from Eginhard (d. 840) in 836. Eginhard was a chronicler and a scholar of the Palatine school, he is well-known for his Vita Karoli Magni (Life of Charlemagne). He copied it either in Fulda or in Ferrières, where he returned from Fulda in 836 ((Pellegrin, 'Les manuscrits de Loup de Ferrières (1957); Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)).
? The Benedictine abbey of Cormery, diocese of Tours, founded in 791: perhaps came to the abbey through Odacer, abbot of Cormery (d. 868) (see Beeson, Lupus of Ferrières (1930); 10th-century additions (ff. 106v-109v), including a poem referring to the dedication by Herardus, archbishop of Tours, of the abbey of Villeloin, a cell of Cormery (f. 107v, beginning: Herardus presul templum sacravit et aram); verses related to Odacer (see f. 107v) (Pellegrin, 'Les manuscrits de Loup de Ferrières (1957)); the epitaph of Fredricus, perhaps a benefactor of Cormery (f. 108r 'Hoc Fredricus adest tumulo'), according to Beeson, Lupus of Ferrières (1930).
Nathaniel Noel (fl. 1681, d. c. 1753), bookseller, employed by Edward Harley for buying books and manuscripts chiefly on the Continent, where his agent was George Suttie (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)): sold to the Harleys in February 1719/20 (see 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 ‘23 die februarij 1719/20’ (f. [vi]) and inscribed 'This belongs to the mss at Wimpole' (f. [v]), referring to Wimpole Hall which belonged to the earls of Oxford).
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, no. 2736.
[E. Maunde Thompson and G. F. Warner], Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts in the British Museum, 2 vols (London: British Museum, 1881-84), Part II, Latin, p. 69, pl. 58.
Émile Chatelain, Paléographie des classiques latins (Paris: [n. publ., 1884-1900), p. 27, pl. 19a [f. 87v].
Wilhelm Köhler, 'Die Karolingishen Miniaturen', in Zweiter Bericht über die Denkmäler Deutscher Kunst (Berlin: Reimer, 1912), pp. 52-77 (p. 57).
Johannes Stroux, 'Die Rekonstruktion der Handschrift von Lodi', Handschriftliche Studien zur Cicero De Oratore (Berlin: B. G. Teubner, 1921), 3-182 (pp. 162-64).
Charles Henry Beeson, Lupus of Ferrières as Scribe and Text Critic (Cambridge, MA: Mediaeval Academy of America, 1930) [commentary and facsimile].
Elisabeth Pellegrin, 'Les manuscrits de Loup de Ferrières. [A propos du ms. Orléans 162 (139) corrigé de sa main.]', Bibliothèque de l'école des chartes, 115 (1957), 5-31 (pp. 6-7, 10-11).
The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by Cyril Ernest Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), I: 1715-1723, p. 195 n. 18.
Kazimierz F. Kumaniecki, M. Tulli Ciceronis Scripta quae mansuerunt omnia, Fasc. 3: De Oratore (Leipzig: Teubner, 1969), pp. v-viii.
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. 112, 229, 253-54.
Andrew G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c. 700-1600 in The Department of Manuscripts: The British Library, 2 vols (London: British Library, 1979), I, no. 698.
Joyce Irene Whalley and Vera C. Kaden, The Universal Penman: A Survey of Western Calligraphy from the Roman Period to 1980 (London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1980), no. 10 [exhibition catalogue].
B. Munk Olsen, L’Étude des auteurs classiques latins aux XIe et XIIe siècles, 3 vols (Paris: Centre national de la recherche scientifique, 1982-1989), I (1982), p. 214 no. B. 247.
M. Winterbottom and others, 'Cicero: Rhetorical Works: De oratore, Orator, Brutus' in Texts and Transmission: A Survey of the Latin Classics, ed. by L. D. Reynolds (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983), pp. 102-09 (pp. 103-04).
Bernhard Bischoff, 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; most originally pub. in Mittelalterliche Studien: Ausgewählte Aufsätze zur Schriftkunde und Literaturgeschichte I-III (Stuttgart: Hieresmann, 1966-1981), pp. 123-24, 144.
Marina Passalacqua, ‘Lupo di Ferrières, Geberto di Aurillac e il De oratore’, Materiali e discussuini per l’analisi dei testi classici, 36 (1996), 225-28.
Treasures of the British Library, ed. by Nicolas Barker and others (London: British Library, 2005), p. 55.
- 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.