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Harley MS 2797
- Record Id:
- 040-002048628
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048628
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x000043
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100056041714.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2797
- Title:
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The Four Gospels
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-6v: The Eusebian Canon tables.
ff. 7r-8v: St Jerome, Epistula ad Damasum Papam (Epistle to Pope Damasus), preceded by the prologue (ff. 7r-8r).
ff. 8v-9v: St Jerome, Prologus Quattuor Evangeliorum (The Prologue of St Jerome's commentary on St Matthew).
ff. 9v-10v: Eusebius, Epistula ad Carpianum (Epistle to Carpianus).
ff. 10v-12r: Capitula (ff. 10v-11v) and the preface (f. 12r) of the Gospel of St Matthew.
ff. 15r-54r: Evangelium Secundum Mattheum (The Gospel of St Matthew), with lectiones in margins.
ff. 54r-55v: Capitula (ff. 54r-55r) and the preface (ff. 55r-v) of the Gospel of St Mark.
ff. 57r-80v: Evangelium Secundum Marcum (The Gospel of St Mark), with lectiones in margins.
ff. 80v-84v: The preface (ff. 80v-81r) and Capitula (ff. 81r-84v) of the Gospel of St Luke.
ff. 86r-128v: Evangelium Secundum Lucam (The Gospel of St Luke), with lectiones in margins.
ff. 128v-131r: The preface (ff. 128v-129r) and capitula (ff. 129r-131r) of the Gospel of St John.
ff. 132r-161r: Evangelium Secundum Johannem (The Gospel of St John), with lectiones in margins.
ff. 163r-175r: Capitula Evangeliorum, de Circulo Anni, with capitula of every Gospel ordered according to the liturgical year.
Decoration:
Full-page canon tables in gold and red, within frames of gold, silver and colours (ff. 1r-6v). Full-page framed initials in rectangular frames of gold and red or colours at the beginning of Gospels, the initial for St John on a purple ground (ff. 15r, 57r, 86r, 132r). Initials and text entirely in gold. Numbers in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- England and France 700-1200 Project
Harley Collection - Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002048628", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 2797: The Four Gospels" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002048628 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 2797 : The Four Gospels - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[2798]/040-002048628
- 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_100056041714.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- 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: 260 x 200 mm (text space: 190 x 135 mm).
Foliation: ff. 175 ( + 2 unfoliated parchment leaves at the beginning + at the end, the three endpapers affixed to marbled paper flyleaves), ff. 12v-14; 56; 85; 131v; 161v-162 are blank leaves.
Script: Caroline minuscule.
Binding: Post-1600. Red leather with gold tooling with a tulip in each corner.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: ? Reims, Northeastern France or Central France.
Provenance:
?Reims, Northern France: the manuscript may have been produced there, based on the script (see Bischoff, Katalog (2004), p. 117).
The abbey of Sainte Geneviève, Paris: inscription in a 17th-century hand 'Ex libris S. Genovefae Parisiensis' (f. 1r).
James Woodman, bookseller of London; purchased by Edward Harley in 1725 (see Humphrey Wanley's diary, in Lansdowne MS 772, f. 51v).
Inscription 'A (?)/S' (f. 1r).
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: [n. pub.], 1808-12), II (1808), no. 2797.
[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, pp. 28-29.
Wilhelm Köehler, 'Die Karolingishen Miniaturen', in Zweiter Bericht über die Denkmäler Deutscher Kunst (Berlin: Reimer, 1912), pp. 52-77 (p. 57).
H. H. Glunz, History of the Vulgate in England from Alcuin to Roger Bacon (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1933), no. 13.
Eric Millar, Souvenir de l’Exposition de Manuscrits Français a Peintures organisée a la Grenville Library (British Museum) in Janvier-Mars 1932 (Paris: Société Française de Reproductions de Manuscrits a Peintures, 1933), no. 7.
Theodor Klauser, Das römische capitulare evangeliorum: Texte und Untersuchungen zu seiner ältesten Geschichte, Liturgiegeschichtliche Quellen und Forschungen, 28 (Munster: Aschendorffschen, 1935), p. L no. 168*.
G. L. Micheli, L’enluminure du haut moyen age et les influences irlandaises (Brussels: Editions de la connaissance, 1939), pp. 118-19.
Bonifatius Fischer, Die Lateinischen Evangelien bis zum 10. Jahrhundert, 4 vols (Freiburg: Herder, 1988-1991), I: Varianten zu Matthäus, Vetus Latina die Reste der Altlateinischen Bible: Aus der Geschichte der Lateinischen Bibel, 13, p. 29*.
Rosamond McKitterick, ‘Carolingian Bible Production: The Tours Anomaly’, in The Early Medieval Bible: Its Production, Decoration and Use (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), pp. 63-77 (p. 64).
Michelle P. Brown and Patricia Lovett, The Historical Source Book for Scribes (London: British Library, 1999), pl. on p. 70.
Die Karolingischen Miniaturen, ed. by Wilhelm Koehler and Florentine Mütherich, 6 vols (Berlin: Deutscher Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, 1930-99), 6 Die Schule von Reims, 2 vols (1994-99), II, Von der Mitte bis zum Ende des 9. Jahrhunderts, pp. 42-45, esp. pp. 66-71 [with additional bibligraphy].
Susanne Rischpler, Biblia Sacra figuris expressa: Mnemotechnische Bilderbibeln des 15. Jahrhunderts, Wissensliteratur im Mittelalter, 36, ed. by Horst Brunner and others (Wiesbaden: Reichert, 2001), pp. 200-01.
Bernhard Bischoff, Katalog der festlandischen Handschriften des neunten Jahrhunderts (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2004), II, Laon-Paderborn, no. 2460, p. 117.
Scot McKendrick and Kathleen Doyle, Bible Manuscripts: 1400 Years of Scribes and Scripture (London: British Library, 2007), p. 43, fig. 30.
Sacred: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (London: British Library, 2007), p.108 [exhibition catalogue].
- 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.