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Harley MS 2802
- Record Id:
- 040-002048633
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048633
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x000048
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165167067.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2802
- Title:
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A Passional (the 'Arnstein Passional'), volume 3 (October-December), with a calendar
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript is the third volume of a three-volume Passional, and contains the lives of saints for readings on feasts in October-December. The first volume is Harley MS 2800 (January-May), and the second volume is Harley MS 2802 (June-September).
Contents:
f. 1v: Added contents page.
ff. 2v-3v: Calendar.
ff. 4r-230r: Passional, October-December 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): Justina and Cyprian; Cosmas and Damian; Wenceslas; Sermon for the dedication of the Basilica of St Michael; Jerome; Remigius; Leodegar; Caprasius and Faith; Sergius and Bacchus; Philip; Pelagia; Dionysius and companions; Gereon and companions; Tarachus and companions; Lubentius; Callistus; Eliphius; Gall; Luke the Evangelist; Hiliarion; Severus; Severinus; the 11,000 Virgin Martyrs; Venantius; Crispin; Fronto of Perigueux; Manes; Simon and Jude; Quintinus; Cesarius; Benignus; Eustace and companions; Pirminius; Leonard; Willibrord; the Four Crowned Martyrs; Theodore; Martin; John Eleymon; John Chrysostom; Menas; Cunibert; Paternus; Brictius; Felix; Magnus; Anianus; Florinus; Romanus and companions; Simplicius; Columbanus; Cecilia; Longinus; Pope Clement; Peter; Saturninus; Chrysanthus and Daria; Ferreolus and Ferrutio; Pelagius; Ferucius; Andrew the Apostle; Amsanus and Maximus; Barbara; Nicholas, bishop; Eucharius and companions; Fuscian and Victoricus; Lucy; Odilia; Ignatius; Gregory of Spoleto; Thomas the Apostle; Victoria; Anastasia; Eugenia; John the Apostle; Pope Sylvester; Columba; Lioba; Sabinus; Livinus; King Edmund; Thomas Becket.
The Vita of Fronto is probably the 'first' version (BHL 3181t).
Decoration:
By the same artist as the Arnstein Bible (Harley MSS 2798-2799), according to Cahn, Romanesque Bible Illumination (1982), p. 253.
3 large historiated initials in colours: a man carrying a tree trunk (f. 190r); St Thomas the Apostle with a book (f. 191r); Pope Sylvester (f. 206r). Large initials in red, some with animals or hybrids, all with foliate decoration, and some with clasps; usually on grounds of green and blue, at the beginning of each saint's passion. Initials painted in colours with clasps, perhaps additional (ff. 56r, 169r). Large initials in red. Decorated quire signatures.
Diagrams of golden numbers and golden letters, effaced (f. 2r).
An added drawing of a scribe writing with erased inscriptions, effaced (f. 231r).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002048633 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 2802 : A Passional (the 'Arnstein Passional'), volume 3 (October-December), with a calendar - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[2803]/040-002048633
- 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_100165167067.0x000001 (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. 231 (+ 3 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and 4 at the end).
Script: Protogothic.
Binding: Post-1600. Red 'Harleian' binding with gold tooling; marbled endpapers. Offset of the original binding (f. 1r).
Amperesands. Decorated quire signatures.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
West Germany (Arnstein).
Provenance:
The Premonstratensian abbey of St Mary and St Nicholas, Arnstein, founded in 1139: inscribed 'Liber Sancte marie virginis sanctique nicolai in arinsteyn 1464' (f. 231v).
List of some of the saints' lives contained within the manuscript in a 14th century or 15th century hand (f. 1v).
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)