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Harley MS 2793
- Record Id:
- 040-002048624
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048624
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x00003f
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100056040392.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2793
- Title:
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Psalter
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1v-146v: Psalterium Hebraicum, Psalter in the Hebraicum version, preceded by the prologue of St Jerome (ff. 1v-2v); St Jerome's epistle to Sunnia and Fretela (ff. 3r-32v); beginning with the first Psalm (f. 33r), 'Beatus vir qui non abiit in consilio impiorum'; followed by Canticles (ff. 132v-146v), ending with Psalm 150 (f. 146v).
Decoration:
Very large zoomorphic initial with a bird and a fish and interlace decoration in ink and red, green, and yellow at the beginning of the Psalms (f. 33r).
Large initial in brown with penwork decoration (f. 3r). Initials in red or brown. Headings in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- England and France 700-1200 Project
Harley Collection - Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002048624", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 2793: Psalter" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002048624 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 2793 : Psalter - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[2794]/040-002048624
- 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_100056040392.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- 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: 295 x 220 mm (text space: 195 x 130 mm).
Foliation: ff. 146 ( + 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + at the end).
Script: Caroline minuscule.
Binding: Post-1600. Red 'Harleian' binding with gold tooling; marbled end-papers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Tours, Central France.
Provenance:
A scriptorium in Tours: according to Rand, A survey (1929) and Bischoff, Katalog (2004).
An unknown 13th-century owner: added the early 13th-century inscription: 'liber jer[onimi] [P]salt[eri]um' (f. 3r).
The Cathedral of Saint Cyricus and Saint Julitta of Nevers: according to Koehler, Die Schule von Tours (1930) I: p. 367.
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 '13 die Mensis Augusti, A. D. 1724' (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
[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 Koehler and Florentine Mütherich, 6 vols (Berlin: Deutscher Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, 1930-99), 1, ed. by Wilhelm Koehler: 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 âge 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.
Berhard Bischoff, Katalog der festländischen Handschriften des neunten Jahrhunderts (mit Ausnahme der wisigotischen) 3 vols(Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1998, 2004, 2014), II (2004): Laon-Paderborn, ed. by Birgit Ebersperger, no. 2458.
Donald A. Bullough, Alcuin: Achievement and Reputation (Leiden: Brill, 2004), p. 185.
- 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.