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Harley MS 2805
- Record Id:
- 040-002048636
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048636
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x00004b
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100056042404.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2805
- Title:
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Bible
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-237v: Bible, containing most of the Old Testament (Genesis to Psalm 142), including neumes (ff. 170r-171v), with 15th-century additional folios for text, imperfect.
Decoration:
Sketch of an animal in brown ink (upper margin f. 27r). Large initial in brown 'E'(t) at the beginning of Joshua (f. 75v). Capitals in red (now oxidised), some in blue. Incipits and explicits in red. Chapters marked in red, paraphs in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- England and France 700-1200 Project
Harley Collection - Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002048636", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 2805: Bible" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002048636 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 2805 : Bible - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[2806]/040-002048636
- 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_100056042404.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
-
- 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: 525 x 365 mm (text space: 380 x 275 mm).
Foliation: ff. 237 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + at the end); ff. 1* and 1** are paper folios onto which fragments of parchment leaves, inscribed with text, have been pasted.
Script: Caroline minuscule.
Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house; marbled endpapers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Tours, Central France.
Provenance:
?The Benedictine abbey of St Martin de Tours: script evidence, according to Rand, A Survey of the Manuscripts of Tours (1929).
Added, 11th century, necrology (f. 1* recto), suggesting a provenance in Cologne, according to Gibson, The Bible in Latin West (1993).
Added folio, 12th century, with a large initial in blue (f. 21r); added folio (f. 7r).
Added, 12th-century notes (f. 199v).
Added, former pastedown including a late 13th-century short table of contents, not related to this manuscript (f. 1* verso).
Added, several fragments from different periods, 9th-century and 11th-century fragments and a early 15th-century fragment of an alphabet (f. 1** recto).
Twelve paper folios added in the 15th century with large initials, paraphs and rubrics in red. (ff. 1-3, 6, 8, 36, 114, 118, 233, 235-37).
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.
Note on f. [iii]: 'According to a letter of Dom. P. Alban Dold, dated 15 April 1930, four leaves from this manuscript in the possession of Dom. Donatien De Bruyne were taken from bindings of 17th century documents belonging to the Benedictine nunnery of Buchau in Wurtemberg'.
- Information About Copies:
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Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk.manuscripts/.
- Publications:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), II, no. 2805.
Deutsche Handschriften in England, ed. by Robert Priebsch, 2 vols in 1 vol (Hildesheim: Olms, 1979, first publ. Erlangen: Junge, 1896-1901), II: Das British Museum mit einem anhang über die Guildhall-Bibliothek, no. 18.
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. 49.
Die Karolingischen Miniaturen, ed. by Wilhelm Köhler and Florentine Mütherich, 6 vols (Berlin: Deutscher Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, 1930-99), 1, ed. by Wilhelm Köhler: Die Schule von Tours, 2 vols, I: Die Ornamentik, pp. 94, 101-02, 105, 107, 120, 313, 319, 372, pl. 13a.
Edward Kennard Rand, 'Review of Wilhelm Köhler, Die Karolingischen Miniaturen', Göttingische gelehrte Anzeigen, 193 (1931), 337-51 (p. 341).
Rudolf Schützeichel, 'Die Kölner Namenliste des Londoner MS Harley 2805, mit einem Faksimile', in Namenforschung: Festschrift für Adolf Bach zum 75. Geburtstag am 31 Januar 1965, ed. by Rudolf Schützeichel and Matthias Zender (Heidelberg: Carl Winter, 1965), pp. 97-126.
Bonifatius Fischer, Lateinische Bibelhandschriften im frühen Mittelalter, Vetus Latina, 11 (Freiburg: Herder, 1985), pp. 260, 289, 314, 397.
Margaret T. Gibson, The Bible in the Latin West, The Medieval Book, 1 (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1993), no. 7.
David Ganz, ‘Mass Production of Early Medieval Manuscripts: The Carolingian Bibles from Tours’, in The Early Medieval Bible: Its Production, Decoration and Use (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), pp. 53-62 (pp. 57-59).
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. 71).
Michele Camillo Ferrari, 'Der Älteste Tournische Pandekt: Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale de France Lat. 8847 und seine Fragmente', Scriptorium: Revue internationale des Études relatives aux manuscrits, 53 (1999), 108-13 (p. 111 n. 22).
Christopher de Hamel, The Book: A History of the Bible (London: Phaidon, 2001), pl. 20.
Berhard Bischoff, Katalog der festländischen Handschriften des neunten Jahrhunderts (mit Ausnahme der wisigotischen), 3 vols(Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1998-2014), II (2004): Laon-Paderborn, ed. by Birgit Ebersperger, no. 2461.
Diane J. Reilly, The Art of Reform in Eleventh-Century Flanders: Gerard of Cambrai, Richard of Saint-Vanne and the Saint Vaast Bible (Leiden: Brill, 2006), p. 49 n6.
Frans Van Liere, An Introduction to the Medieval Bible (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014), p. 35.
- 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.