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Harley MS 2812

Record Id:

040-002048643

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002048643

MDARK:

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LARK:

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Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 2812

Title:

Bible including the Psalms and the Interpretation of Hebrew Names

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-644r: Bible including the Psalms and the Interpretation of Hebrew Names (ff. 600r-644v).

The manuscript contains a later addition:

ff. 484r-537r: Concordance between the different Gospels added in red ink in the margins of these folios throughout; added in the 13th or 14th century.

Decoration

77 historiated initials in gold and colours with foliate decoration, human heads, hybrid creatures. f. 1r: cleric writing, for the beginning of Jerome's Prologue; f. 4v: Creation scenes, for Genesis; f. 28r: Moses receives Tablets of the Law, for Exodus; f. 47v: two men offering ram before altar for Leviticus; f. 61v: two men conversing, for Numbers, f. 81: Moses and the Tablets of the Law, for Deuteronomy; f. 98r: God addressing Joshua, for Joshua; f. 110v: man with shield and sword, for Judges; f. 125v: Beheading of son of Heli, theft of Ark, for I Kings; f. 142v: Samson carries doors, II Kings; f. 156r: Abishag brought to David, for III Kings (I Samuel); f. 172v: King Ahaziah falling from tower, for IV Kings (II Samuel); f. 188r: two men conversing, for I Paralipomenon; f. 202r: King Solomon, seated, with sceptre, for II Paralipomenon; f. 219v: King Cyrus ordering the building of the Temple of Jerusalem for Esdras; f. 224r: Nehemiah presenting gold cup to King Artaxerxes, for II Esdras (Nehemias); f. 231r: Josiah asperging altar, for III Esdras; f. 238r: Tobit lying, for Tobias; f. 243r: Judith beheading Holofernes, for Judith; f. 249v: King Ahasuerus and queen Esther, for Esther; f. 256v: Job and his wife, for Job; f. 268r: David playing the harp, for Psalm 1; f. 272v: King David, for Psalm 26 (27); f. 275v: King David pointing at his eyes, for Psalm 38 (39); f. 278r: Fool, for Psalm 52 (53), f. 284v: David playing bells, for Psalm 80 (81), f. 288r: Cleric singing, for Psalm 97 (98); f. 291r: seated Christ, for Psalm 109 (110); f. 298r: King Solomon with master's rod instructing a youth, for Proverbs; f. 308v: King Solomon giving a gold fleur-de-lis to a youth, for Ecclesiastes; f. 312r: Virgin and Child, for Song of Songs; f. 314r: King Solomon handing sword to a youth, for Wisdom; f. 321v: Ecclesia holding chalice, for Ecclesiasticus; f. 341r: Martyrdom of Isaiah, for Isaiah, f. 364r: Stoning of Jeremiah, for Jeremiah; f. 392r: Jeremiah lamenting the fall of Jerusalem, for Lamentations; f. 394v: Baruch seated, holding a book, for Baruch; f. 398r: Ezechiel’s vision, for Ezechiel, f. 423r: Daniel in the lions’den, for Daniel; f. 433v: Marriage of Hosea and Gomer, for Hosea; f. 437r: God addressing Joel, for Joel; f. 439r: Amos seated with a sword, for Amos; f. 442v: Jonah cast up by whale, above, Nineveh, for Jonah; f. 443v: Micah seated with scroll, for Micah; f. 446r: Nahum, seated with sword, for Nahum; f. 447v: Habakkuk with scroll, for Habakkuk; f. 448v: Zephaniah with scroll, for Zephaniah; f. 450r: Hagai and the Temple, for Hagai; f. 451r: Zechariah standing with scroll, for Zechariah; f. 455v: Malachi seated with scroll, for Malachi; f. 457v: Mattathias beheading idolatrous Jew, for I Maccabees; f. 473: Delivery of letter to seated man with sword, for II Maccabees; f. 484r: Jesse asleep?, for Matthew’s Gospel; f. 499r: Mark standing, for Mark’s Gospel; f. 509r: figure (Zacharias?) with censer, for Luke’s Gospel; f. 525v: John standing with book for John’s Gospel; ff. 537v, 544v, 549r, 552v, 554v, 556v, 558r, 559r, 560v, 561r, 562v, 563v, 564v: Paul seated or standing with sword, for Letter to the Romans, Corinthians, etc.; f. 564v: Paul conversing with other man, for Letter to the Hebrews; f. 569v: Ascension, for the Acts of the Apostles; f. 585r: James standing with book, for James; f. 586v: Peter with key, for I Peter; f. 588r: Peter seated, for II Peter; f. 589r: John seated for I John; f. 590v: John seated with martyr’s palm (?), for II John; f. 591r: John seated with book for III John, and Jude standing with book, for Jude; f. 592r: John seated with book, for Revelation.

Large initials in colours with foliate decoration at the beginning of prologues. Numerous smaller red or blue initials with pen flourishing and J-border in the same colours. Running titles and chapter numbers in alternating red and blue.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002048643

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 2812 : Bible including the Psalms and the Interpretation of Hebrew Names

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[2813]/040-002048643

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1245

End Date:

1255

Date Range:

c 1250

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment; paper (f. 1*).

Dimensions: 180 x 125 mm (text space: 130 x 85 mm, in 2 columns).

Foliation: f. 1* + ff. 644 (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning + 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end); f. 1* is a paper leaf.

Collation: Mostly in quires of 24. Each quire has been mounted separately onto a paper guard.

Script Gothic, written below the top line

Binding: British Museum in house. Rebound on 4 March 1964. Red speckled fore edge.

Custodial History:

Origin:

Central France (Paris).

Provenance:

John Bridges (b. 1666, d. 1724), antiquary and topographer, owner until 1719: according to an inscription on f. 1*recto transcribed below (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 82).

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 by their librarian, Humfrey Wanley 'Hune Codicem contulit Iohannes Bridges Arm. 28 Febr. 1718/19' (f. 1*recto; not recorded in Wanley's diary).

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.

Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), II (1808), p. 713.

Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), p. 82.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Places:

Central France
Paris, France