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Harley MS 2750
- Record Id:
- 040-002048581
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048581
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x000014
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100132824283.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2750
- Title:
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Publius Terentius Afer, Vita Terentii, Opera (Life and Works), with interlinear and marginal glosses
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1v-94r: Publius Terentius Afer, Vita Terentii, Opera (Life and Works), with interlinear and marginal glosses.
f. 94v: various scribbles and notes including an annotation which is one of the earliest French vernacular songs with music in a late-11th-century hand.
Decoration:
Initials in red (oxidised). Capitals marked in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002048581", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 2750: Publius Terentius Afer, Vita Terentii, Opera (Life and Works), with interlinear and marginal glosses" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002048581 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 2750 : Publius Terentius Afer, Vita Terentii, Opera (Life and Works), with interlinear and marginal glosses - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[2751]/040-002048581
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100132824283.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- French, Old
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1000
- End Date:
- 1024
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 11th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Letter of introduction required to view this manuscript
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 260 x 200 mm (written space: 205 x 145 mm).
Foliation: ff. 94 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end).
Script: Caroline minuscule
Binding: British Museum in-house. Rebound in 1964. The covers of a previous binding of gold-tooled red leather are pasted inside the present ones.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Germany.
Provenance:
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.
- 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. 2750.
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), II (1985), p. 618, C. 46.
Jan M. Ziolkowsksi, Nota Bene: Reading Classics and Writing Melodies in the Early Middle Ages, Publications of the Journal of Medieval Latin, 7 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2007), pp. 270, 284.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)