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Harley MS 2817

Record Id:

040-002048648

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002048648

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x000057

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 2817

Title:

Book of Job; commentary on Priscian, Institutiones Grammaticae; Warner von Basel, Synodus

Scope & Content:

This manuscript is composed of three originally separate parts.

The first part (ff. 1v-32v) contains the Book of Job with prefatory material by St Jerome (d. 420), possibly made in the Southern Netherlands (modern Belgium).

The second part (ff. 33r-48v) contains an anonymous gloss on Priscian (fl. c. 500), Institutiones Grammaticae.

Yhe third part (ff. 49r-61v) contains a poem by Warner (Warnerius) von Basel (fl. c. 1000-1025), Synodus.

The second and third parts were probably made in England and seem to have been bound together close to the time that the third part was written (late 12th century), since the hand of an added note on f. 32v is close to the hand of ff. 33r-48v.

Contents:

f. 1r: Added annotation, early 13th century, now partly illegible due to damage.

ff. 1v-3v: Prologue and preface to the Book of Job, by St Jerome: ff. 1v-3r, beginning: ‘Cogor per singulos scripture ’; ff. 3r-3v, beginning: 'Si aut fiscellam texerem aut palmarum'.

f. 3v: Excerpt from St Jerome, Letter 53, Epistula ad Paulinum (Letter to Paul), beginning: ‘Job exemplar patientie, quae non mysteria suo sermone’.

ff. 3v-32v: Book of Job.

ff. 33r-48v: Anonymous commentary on Priscian, Institutiones Grammaticae (Institutes of Grammar), beginning: ‘Quia in hoc opere tota grammatica continetur quaedam circa ipsam artem consideranda’.

ff. 49r-61v: Warner (Warnerius) von Basel (fl. c. 1000-1050), Synodus (The Synod), with capitula, beginning: ‘Iam calor estivus fervente leone nocivus’. It is imperfect at the end due to damage to f. 61.

Decoration:

ff. 1v-32v: 1 large red ink initial (f. 1r). Small initials in red throughout.

ff. 33r-48v: 1 large red ink initial with green penwork decoration (f. 33r).

ff. 49r-61v: Two-line initials in red. Capitals highlighted in yellow (ff. 33r-35v).

Headings in red throughout.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002048648

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 2817 : Book of Job; commentary on Priscian, Institutiones Grammaticae; Warner von Basel, Synodus

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[2818]/040-002048648

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:

1150

End Date:

1199

Date Range:

2nd half of the 12th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 150 x 95 mm (written area 115 x 70) (ff. 1-32v); 150 x 95 mm (written area 125 x 70 mm) (ff. 33-48v); 140-150 x 95 mm (written area 115 x 65 mm) (ff. 49-61v).

Foliation: ff. 61 (+ 2 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning + 2 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the end).

Script: Protogothic (ff. 1v-20r); Gothic (ff. 20v-61v).

Binding: British Museum in-house in dark red leather, rebound in 1950.

Collation: ff. 1v-32v: quire marks, ‘i’ (f. 8v, ‘ii’ (f. 16v), etc.

Prick marks visible on several folios.

Custodial History:

Origin:

Possibly Southern Netherlands (modern Belgium) (ff. 1-32); England (ff. 33-61).

Provenance:

Val-St-Lambert, the Cistercian abbey of St Mary near Liège, Belgium, founded in 1202: inscribed early 13th century 'Liber s[an]c[t]e marie vall[is] s[an]c[t]i lamb[er]ti' (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.

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.

Information About Copies:

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Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), II (1808), p. 713, no. 2817.

Hans Walther, Das Streitgedicht in der lateinischen Literatur des Mittelalter (München: Beck, 1920), p. 97.

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. 336.

Richard William Hunt, 'Studies on Priscian in the Twelfth Century, 2: The School of Ralph of Beauvais', in The History of Grammar in the Middle Ages: Collected Papers, ed. by G. L. Bursill-Hall (Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1980), 39-94 (p. 66 n. 3).

G. L. Bursill-Hall, A Census of Medieval Latin Grammatical Manuscripts, Grammatica Speculativa: Sprachtheorie und Logik des Mittelalters, 4 (Stuttgart: Frommann-Holzboog, 1981), p. 118, no. 137.

Die deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters: Verfasserlexikon, 14 vols (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2010) 10, ed. by. Burghart Wachinger and others, 2nd edn., p. 727.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Jerome, Saint, c 345-420,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000123213293,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/95147024

Places:

Belgium, Europe
England

Related Material:

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

‘1. Liber Job Versio Vulgata, cum Hieronymi prefationibus. XI. 2. Grammatica. "Quia in hoc opere tota grammatica continetur." XII. 3. Warnerii, Poetae Basiliensis Sinodius, άΊελεςοι, "Jam calor estivus fervente leone nocivus." XIII. Codex membranaceus in 12o.'