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Harley MS 2816

Record Id:

040-002048647

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002048647

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x000056

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 2816

Title:

Bible, with Psalms and Interpretation of Hebrew Names

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-601v: Bible, with Psalms (ff. 249r-276v) and Interpretation of Hebrew Names (ff. 567r-601v).

The manuscript contains later additions:

Marginal annotations in various medieval hands.

ff. 601v-607v: Revelation and its prologue (even though this section is not missing from the manuscript); added in the (?) 15th century in a French script.

f. 608v: A list of incipits of the Psalms; added in the (?) late 14th or early 15th century in an Italian hand.

Decoration:

Numerous large initials in colours with foliate decoration and sometimes including an animal (dragon, bird, quadruped, animal head), with the descender often resting on the back of this quadruped or dragon (ff. 116r, 440v, 504r, 510r, 516r, 520r, 522r, 524r, 525v, 532v, 537v). Numerous large puzzle initials in red and blue with pen flourishing in the same colours. Smaller initials in red or blue with simple penwork decoration in the other colour (more elaborate in the Psalms section). Running titles in red and blue. Chapter numbers in blue and red in the margins. Capitals marked with red.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002048647

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 2816 : Bible, with Psalms and Interpretation of Hebrew Names

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[2817]/040-002048647

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:

1225

End Date:

1274

Date Range:

2nd quarter of the 13th century-3rd quarter of the 13th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 150 x 110 mm (text space: 95 x 65 mm, in 2 columns).

Foliation: ff. i + 608 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 parchment flyleaves and 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end); 3 unfoliated parchment leaves between f. i and f. 1.

Script: Gothic, written below the top line

Binding: Post-1600. Harleian binding of gold-stamped and -tooled red Morroco leather; marbled endpapers. Gilt gauffered edges with braided pattern. Harley gold stamp 'VIRTUTE ET FIDE' applied to the inside of the upper and lower covers.

Custodial History:

Origin:

France (? Southern France).

Provenance:

Made in the South of France with its large initials in colours and puzzle initials possibly painted by an English artist, according to Patricia Stirnemann.

Nathaniel Noel (fl. 1681, d. c. 1753), bookseller, employed by Edward Harley for buying books and manuscripts chiefly on the Continent, where his agent was George Suttie: sold to Edward Harley on 20 January 1721/22 (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 254).

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 ‘20 die mensis Januarij, A.D. 1721/22’ (f. i recto).

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 (no. 2816).

The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by C. E. Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), I: 1715-1723, p. 128 and p. 138, n. 7.

Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 253-54.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Places:

France
Southern France