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Harley MS 2819

Record Id:

040-002048650

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002048650

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x000059

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 2819

Title:

Bible, with the Psalms and the Interpretation of Hebrew Names

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 5r-493r: Bible, with the Psalms (ff. 208v-231v; imperfect) and the Interpretation of Hebrew Names (ff. 494r-533r), imperfect at the beginning (starts in the middle of Exodus) and featuring lacuna between ff. 231v and 232r: the Psalms stop in the middle of Psalm 145 and chapter 1 of Proverbs is missing.

The manuscript contains several additions:

ff. [1*a]recto-[1*a]verso, 539r-539v: fragments of Augustine of Hippo, De verbis apostoli [Sermo CLII]: written in the 14th century .

ff. 1v-4v, 537v: Theological notes; for example, a note listing the twelve plagues of Egypt; added in the (?) 15th century.

ff. 534r-534v: Concordance between the Gospels completed in a slightly later hand.

ff. 535r-537r: Concordance between the Gospels completed in a 14th- or 15th-century hand.

f. 537r: Poem on the Evangelists, beginning: 'Marchus romanus . sed Johannes asianis / Lucas achaijs . Matheus scribis hebreis'; added in the 14th or 15th century.

f. 537v: A prayer by Anselm of Canterbury, beginning: 'Si tantum domine reatum nostrum dliquencie cogitamus deputatum observationis ministerium non implemus'; added in the 14th or 15th century.

f. 538r: A list of names: 'Comes de Arundel / D[omi]n[us] Joh[annes] Clifton mil[es] / D[omi]na de Staffordi / W. Ryman de Co[m]i[t]a Su[sse]x' [probably referring to William Ryman (d. 1443) of Appledram, Sussex], partially erased; written in the 15th century.

Running titles have been trimmed when the manuscript was rebound and have been rewritten in a later hand at the top right together with a folio number which takes into account the now missing section.

Decoration:

71 historiated initials in gold and colours introducing each biblical book (ff. 19v, 31v, 48v, 64v, 86r, 88r, 102v, 114r, 127r, 140v, 152r, 177r, 183v, 187v, 198r, 208v, 212r, 214v, 216v, 218v, 222r, 224v, 227r, 240v, 243r, 245r, 251v, 268v, 288v, 313r, 316v, 338r, 347r, 350r, 351v, 354r, 354v, 355v, 356v, 357v, 360r, 361r, 362r, 365v, 367r, 380r, 389v, 402v, 411r, 425r, 435v, 446r, 449v, 451v, 453r, 454v, 457r, 457v, 459r, 460r, 460v, 461r, 465r, 479v, 481r, 482v, 483v, 485r [x3], 486r). Initials in gold and colours with foliate decoration and animal heads, introducing the prologues. Maiden and unicorn in the lower margin at the beginning of Matthew's Gospel which is introduced by a historiated initial with the Tree of Jesse (f. 389v). Numerous small initials in red or blue with pen flourishing in the same colours (including J-borders). Capitals in red or blue ink in the Psalms and the Interpretation of Hebrew Names.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002048650

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 2819 : Bible, with the Psalms and the Interpretation of Hebrew Names

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[2820]/040-002048650

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: 145 x 100 mm (text space: 105 x 65 mm, in 2 columns).

Foliation: f. 1* + ff. 539 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end); f. 1* is a paper leaf; 1 unfoliated parchment leaf taken from a 14th-century manuscript after f. 1* (f. [1*a]); and 1 after f. 538 (f. [538a]); the right vertical half of f. 5 has been removed and replaced with blank parchment; 1 unfoliated blank parchment leaf between f. 538 and f. 539.

Collation: Mostly in quires of 24; each quire has been mounted separately.

Script: Gothic, written below the top line.

Binding: British Museum in-house; red morocco leather with the Harleian arms gold-stamped on the outside covers; Rebound on 18 July 1968.

Custodial History:

Origin:

Central France (? Paris).

Provenance:

'K[atherine] De la Poole', owned in the 15th or 16th-century: inscribed her name and the French inscription 'pries pur moy for charyte' on f. 538r (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 128, who transcribes the name as 'R De la Poole'); the list of inscriptions on f. 538r suggests that she may have been Katherine de la Pole (b. 1376, d. 1419), Countess of Suffolk; other possible owners with this name could be Katherine de la Pole (b. 1410/1411, d. 1473), Abbess of Barking Abbey, and Katherine de la Pole (b. c. 1416, d. 1488), spouse of Miles Stapleton, Lord of the Manor of Ingham, Norfolk [see Meale, 'Katherine de la Pole' (2014), pp. 132-49].

Thomas Baker (b. 1656, d. 1740), nonjuring Church of England clergyman and antiquary (deprived of his fellowship at St John's, Cambridge, in 1717): his autograph inscription on f. 1*recto: 'Biblia latina a fronte mutila' (f. 1*); sold to Harley in 1715/16 (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 60).

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.

Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), II (1808), p. 714.

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. 60, 128.

Carol M. Meale, 'Katherine de la Pole and East Anglian Manuscript Production in the Fifteenth Century: An Unrecognized Patron?', in Makers and Users of Medieval Books: Essays in Honour of A. S. G. Edwards, ed. by Carol M. Meale and Derek Pearsall (Cambridge: Brewer, 2014), pp. 132-49.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Anselm of Canterbury, Saint, Abbot of Bec and Archbishop of Canterbury, c 1033-1109,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121451191,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/100187025
Augustine of Hippo, Saint, Bishop of Hippo, 354-430,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121376443,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/66806872

Places:

Central France
Paris, France