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Harley MS 2801
- Record Id:
- 040-002048632
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048632
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x000047
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165166941.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2801
- Title:
- A Passional (the 'Arnstein Passional'), volume 2 (June-September), with a fragment of a calendar
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript is the second volume of a three-volume Passional, and contains the lives of saints for readings on feasts in June-September, and a fragment of a calendar. The first volume is Harley MS 2800 (January-May), and the third volume is Harley MS 2802 (October-December).
Contents:
f. 1r: Added contents page.
ff. 1v-[1a] verso: Calendar (imperfect).
ff. 2r-196v: Passional, June-September portion. This volume contains the following saints' lives, each numbered in the top right corner of the rectos with a contemporary roman numeral (for folio ranges for a selection of the Lives, see Levison, 'Conspectus' (1920), pp. 603-605): Medard; Primus and Felicianus; Basilides, Trophidis and Mandal; Barnabas; Nazarius; Marina; Gervasius and Protasius; Alban; Eustasius; Paulinus; Mustiola and companions; John and Paul; the Seven Sleepers; Peter and Paul; Peter; Paul; James; Martial; Faith Hope and Charity; Carelesi; Processus and Martinian; Ulric; Goar; Kylian and companions; Cyril; Anatolia; Paternian; Felicitas; Rufina and Secunda; Hermagoras; Eugenius; Margaret; Quiricus and Julitta; Agilolsus; Alexis; Praxedis; Marie Magdalene; Apollinaris; Christina; James; Christopher; Glodesind; Pantaleon; Pope Felix; Simplicius, Faustinis and Beatrice; Lupus; Serapia; Abdon and Sennen; Flora and Lucilla; Felix; Germanus; Stephen; Memmius; Sixtus and companions; Justus and Pastor; Donatus and Hilarinus; Afra and companions; Justinus; Cyriacus and companions; Laurence; Gaugericus; Susanna; Euplus; Gratilianus; Cassian; Radegund; Hippolytus and companions; Eusebius; the Virgin Mary; Arnulph; Agapitus; Philibert; Privatus; Symphorianus; Timothy and Apollinaris; Bartholomew; Audoenus; Genesius; Augustine; Vivianus; Julian; John the Baptist; Sabina; Savina; Felix and Adauctus; Paulinus; Giles; Justus; Antoninus; Marcellus; Evurtius; the Virgin Mary; Adrian; Gorgonius and Dorothy; Corbinianus; the Exultation of the Cross; the Passion of the Crucifix; Cornelius; Cyprian; Eufemia; Lucy and Geminianus; Lambert; Ferreolus; Januarius; Matthew; Maurice and companions; Solemnis; Thecla; Firminus.
ff. 196v-198r: Added short work on the life of Ludwig, Count of Arnstein, 'fundatoris nostri' (our founder), late-12th century.
Decoration:
By the same artist as the Arnstein Bible (Harley MSS 2798-2799), according to Cahn, Romanesque Bible Illumination (1982), p. 253.
1 full-page miniature in colours of scenes from the lives of Peter and Paul (f. 21r).
Large zoomorphic initial in colours on a green ground (f. 2r).
Large historiated initials in colours: a saint (f. 4r); a man holding a dog by the hindlegs, with a bird (f. 7v); Saints Abdon and Sennen (f. 86r); a man carrying a fish (f. 103r); 2 bears and 2 birds (f. 108v); the death of the Virgin (f. 121v); the Virgin and Child enthroned (f. 121v); hares or rabbits hanging a hunter (f. 151r), a hybrid man (f. 183v).
Large initials in red, some with animals or hybrids, all with foliate decoration, and some with clasps; some also with other colours at the beginning of each saint's passion. Large initials in red. Display script in colours.
Decorated quire signatures (e.g., ff. 46v, 62v, 94r).
An added drawing of a man holding a latern and walking stick walking away from a city, 15th or 16th century (f. 198v).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002048632 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 2801 : A Passional (the 'Arnstein Passional'), volume 2 (June-September), with a fragment of a calendar - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[2802]/040-002048632
- 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_100165166941.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1165
- End Date:
- 1185
- Date Range:
- c. 1170-c. 1180
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 545 x 370 mm (text space: 405 x 265 mm, in 2 columns).
Foliation: ff. 198 (+ 3 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and 2 at the end + an unfoliated fragment after f. 1).
Script: Protogothic.
Binding: Post-1600. Red 'Harleian' binding with gold tooling; marbled endpapers.
Ampersands. Decorated quire signatures (e.g., ff. 46v, 62v, 94r).
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
West Germany (Arnstein).
Provenance:
The Premonstratensian abbey of St Mary and St Nicholas, Arnstein: inscribed ‘Liber Sancte marie virginis sanctique nicolai in arinsteyn 1464’ (Harley MS 2802, f. 231v, the third volume in this set).
Added text of the life of Ludwig, Count of Arnstein, 'fundatoris nostri' (our founder), late-12th century (ff. 196v-198r).
Added list of saints' lives contained within the manuscript in a 14th- century or 15th- century hand (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, inscribed as usual by their librarian, Humfrey Wanley ‘16 die January, A.D. 1720/21’ (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.
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- Select digital coverage: Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts, http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/
- Publications:
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This bibliography is for each of Harley MSS 2800-2802:
A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), II (1808), no. 2800-2.
A. Kohl, 'Arnsteiner Handschriften im Britischen Museum zu London', Nassovia. Zeitschrift für nassauische Geschichte und Heimatkunde, 4 (1903), 106-108,120-121,133-134 (p. 107).
W. Levison, 'Conspectus codicum hagiographicorum', Monumenta Germanica historiae. Scriptores rer. Merov., 7 (1920), pp. 537-538, 603-605.
R. Schilling, 'Studien zur deutschen Goldschmiedekunst des 12. und 13. Jahrhunderts', Form und Inhalt: Festschrift für Otto Schmitt zum 60. Geburtstag (1950), 76-78.
W. Weismann, 'Die 'Passio Genesii mimi' (BHL 3320), Mittellateinisches Jahrbuch, 12 (1977), pp. 22-43, esp. p. 26, 34-43.
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), pp. 128-29.
Walter Cahn, Romanesque Bible Illumination (Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1982), p. 253.
F. Dolbeau, 'La Passion des saints Lucius et Montanus. Histoire et édition du texte', Revue des Études Augustiniennes, 29 (Paris, 1983), pp.39-82, esp. p. 43.
G. Philippart, 'Les Légendes Latines de Sainte Verena. Pour une Histoire de Leur Diffusion', Analecta Bollandiana: Revue Critique d’Hagiographie, 103 (1985), pp. 253-302, esp. 268-269, 295.
Sigrid Krämer, Handschriftenerbe des deutschen Mittelalters, Mittelalterliche Bibliothekskataloge Deutschlands und der Schweiz: Ergänzungsband 1, 3 vols (Munich, 1989-90), II (1989), p. 25.
Janet Backhouse, The Illuminated Page: Ten Centuries of Manuscript Painting in the British Library (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997), pp. 55, 57.
Krone und Schleier: Kunst aus Mittelalterlichen Frauenklöstern, Bonn and Essen exhibition catalogue (Munich: Kirmer, 2005), no. 11.
Jeffrey F. Hamburger, 'The Hand of God and the Hand of the Scribe: Craft and Collaboration at Arnstein', in Die Bibliothek des Mittelalters als dynamischer Prozess, ed. by Michael Embach, Claudine Moulin and Andrea Rapp, Trierer Beiträge zu den Historischen Kulturwissenschaften, 3 (Wiesbaden: Reichert, 2012), pp. 53-78 (p. 71, colour plate 36).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)