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Harley MS 2823
- Record Id:
- 040-002048654
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048654
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x00005d
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100056043485.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2823
- Title:
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The Four Gospels
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-2r: St Jerome (b. c. 347, d. 420), Prefatio Epistule ad Damasum Papam (Preface of the Epistle of St Jerome to Pope Damasus).
f. 2v: St Jerome, Epistule ad Damasum Papam (Epistle to Pope Damasus).
ff. 2v-4r: St Jerome, Prologus Quattuor Evangeliorum (The Prologue of St Jerome's commentary on St Matthew).
ff. 4r-4v: Epistula Eusebii ad Carpianum (Eusebius's epistle to Carpianus).
ff. 5r-7v: The Eusebian Canon tables.
ff. 8r-43v: Evangelium Secundum Sanctum Mattheum (The Gospel of St Matthew), preceded by the prologue (ff. 8r-v) and capitula (ff. 8v-10r ), including lectiones in margins and neumes (ff. 10v-11r).
ff. 43v-68v: Evangelium Secundum Sanctum Marcum (The Gospel of St Mark), preceded by the prologue (ff. 43v-44r) and capitula (ff. 45r-v), including lectiones in margins.
ff. 69r-110v: Evangelium Secundum Sanctum Lucam (The Gospel of St Luke), preceded by the prologue (ff. 69r-v) and capitula (ff. 69v-71r), including lectiones in margins.
ff. 111r-139r: Evangelium Secundum Sanctum Iohannem (The Gospel of St John), preceded by the prologue (ff. 111r-v) and capitula (ff. 111v-112r), including lectiones in margins.
ff. 139v-150v: Capitulare Evangeliorum.
Decoration:
Coloured canon tables with arches and pillars with capitals and bases in varying shapes, decorated with pen-drawn patterns (ff. 5r-7v). Large coloured initials with interlace patterns at the beginning of Sts Matthew ('L'[iber], f. 10v), Mark ('I'[nitium], f. 46r), Luke ('Q'[uoniam], f. 71v), and John ('I'[n], f. 112v). Initials with coloured highlights (ff. 8v, 11r, 44r, 68v-71r, 110v-113r). Initials in red or red and blue with penwork bar decoration. Quire signatures with Roman numerals. Headings in brown ink.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- England and France 700-1200 Project
Harley Collection - Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002048654", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 2823: The Four Gospels" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002048654 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 2823 : The Four Gospels - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[2824]/040-002048654
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100056043485.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- French, Middle
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0850
- End Date:
- 0899
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 9th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 240 x 160 mm (text space: 190 x 110 mm).
Foliation: ff. 150 (+ 5 paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end).
Collation: i4 (ff. 1-4v); 2 single leaves (ff. 5-6v); ii-xix8 (ff. 7-150v).
Script: Caroline minuscule.
Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house. Rebound in 1965.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Western France.
Provenance:
Marginal additions throughout the manuscript in a 9th/10th-century hand.
John of Aneto, Dominican brethren of Chartres: ownership inscription, in an early 15th-century hand, 'In isto libro continetur evangelium domini nostri Ihesu Christi complete secundum iiiior evangelistas: Mattheum, Lucam, Marcum et Johannem... et est dictus liber fratris Johannis de Aneto, de conventu Carnotensi, ordinis fratrum predicatorum' (f. 139v).
Marginal additions in French in early 15th-century hands (f. 44, 48v, 74, 139v-140v).
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 (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)): sold this manuscript to Edward Harley on 13 August 1724 (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 254). Harley's librarian describes the manuscripts sold on this date as part of a shipment to Noel lately arrived 'from beyond the Seas' (see Wright, The Diary of Humphrey Wanley (1966), p. 304).
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 '13 die mensis Augusti, A.D. 1724.' (f. 1).
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:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), II (1808), no. 2823.
[E. Maunde Thompson and G. F. Warner], Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts in the British Museum, 2 vols (London: British Museum, 1881-1884), Part II, Latin, p. 29.
Wilhelm Köhler, 'Die Karolingischen Miniaturen', in Zweiter Bericht über die Denkmäler Deutscher Kunst (Berlin: Reimer, 1912), pp. 52-77 (p. 57).
Henry Jenner, 'The Bodmin Gospels,' Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall, 70 (1923), 113-45 (p. 144).
H. H. Glunz, History of the Vulgate in England from Alcuin to Roger Bacon (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1933), no. 10.
Theodor Klauser, Das römische capitulare evangeliorum: Texte und Untersuchungen zu seiner ältesten Geschichte, Liturgiegeschichtliche Quellen und Forschungen, 28 (Munster: Aschendorffschen, 1935), no. 171*, p. LI.
Georges Benoit-Castelli and Michel Huglo, 'L'Origine bretonne du graduel no. 47 de la Bibliothèque de Chartres,' Études Grégoriennes, I (Paris: Abbaye Saint Pierre de Solesmes, 1954), pp. 173-78 (p. 174).
D. Francis de Meeûs, 'Chronique: Études Grégoriennes I, Scriptorium: Revue internationale des études relatives aux manuscrits, 10 (1956), 275-81 (p. 281).
The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by Cyril Ernest Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), II: 1723-1726, p. 304, 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. 255, 417.
Francis Wormald, An Early Breton Gospel Book, ed. by Jonathan Alexander (Cambridge: Roxburghe Club, 1977), p. 13 n. 1.
Bonifatius Fischer, Die Lateinischen Evangelien bis zum 10. Jahrhundert, 4 vols (Freiburg: Herder, 1988-1991), Vetus Latina die Reste der Altlateinischen Bible: Aus der Geschichte der Lateinischen Bibel, p. 17* (all volumes).
Patrick McGurk, 'The Disposition of Numbers in Latin Eusebian Canon Tables,' in Philologia Sacra, ed. by Roger Gryson (Freiburg: Herder, 1993), pp. 242-58 (p. 257).
Richard Gameson, 'The Insular Gospel Book at Hereford Cathedral,' Scriptorium: Revue Internationale des Etudes Relatives aux Manuscrits, 56 (2002), 48-70 (p. 50, n. 11).
Bernhard Bischoff, Katalog der festländischen Handschriften des neunten Jahrhunderts, 3 vols (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1998-2014), II (2004): Laon-Paderborn, ed. by Birgit Ebersperger, p. 118 (no. 2463).
William Smith, The Use of Hereford: The Sources of a Medieval English Diocesan Rite (Franham: Ashgate, 2015), p. 523.
Section de codicologie et d'histoire des bibliothèques anciennes, Bibale: Collections Anciennes et Transmission des manuscrits médiévaux (Paris: Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des Textes, CNRS, 2015) < [Accessed"http://bibale.irht.cnrs.fr/source/6977> [Accessed 23 September 2016].
- 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.