Hard-coded id of currently selected item: . JSON version of its record is available from Blacklight on e.g. ??

Metadata associated with selected item should appear here...

Harley MS 2824

Record Id:

040-002048655

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002048655

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x00005e

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 2824

Title:

Bible, including the Psalms and the Interpretation of Hebrew Names

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-576r: Bible, including the Psalms (ff. 242r-269r) and the Interpretation of Hebrew Names (ff. 543r-576r).

The manuscript contains a few later additions:

Marginal annotations throughout the manuscript.

f. 576v: Additions in different hands, including a list with biblical references (partially legible) and a text with part of Augustine of Hippo's commentary on John 21: 19-25: 'Sic eum volo manere donec veniam: quid ad te? Tu me sequere'; added in the 13th-14th century.

Decoration:

6 large historiated initials in gold and colours with foliate decoration and sometimes a dragon or animal head (f. 1r: friar writing for prologue to Genesis; f. 4r: Creation scenes for Genesis; f. 84v: God speaking to Joshua for Joshua; f. 109v: Beheading of son of Heli; f. 269r: king Solomon disciplining a pupil; f. 484r: Paul with a sword, for Epistles to the Romans). Large initials in gold and colours with foliate decoration, animal heads, dragons (f. 574r: includes a fish). Numerous smaller initials in blue or red with pen-flourishing in the other colour. Running titles and chapter numbers in red and blue. Capitals marked with a stroke of red ink. Capitals in alternating red or blue in the Psalms and Interpretation of Hebrew Names sections. Passages forgotten in the main text were written by the scribe in the margin and decorated with red and/or blue ink (see especially ff. 68v, 139r, 204v).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

[{ "id" : "040-002048655", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 2824: Bible, including the Psalms and the Interpretation of Hebrew Names" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002048655

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 2824 : Bible, including the Psalms and the Interpretation of Hebrew Names

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[2825]/040-002048655

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:

1255

Date Range:

c 1230-c 1250

Era:

Access:

Please request the physical items you need using the online collection item request form.

Digitised items can be viewed online by clicking the thumbnail image or digitised content link.

Readers who have registered or renewed their pass since 21 March 2024 can request physical items prior to visiting the Library by completing
this request form.
Please enter the Reference (shelfmark) above on the request form.

If your Reader Pass was issued before this date, you will need to visit the Library in London or Yorkshire to renew it before you can request items online. All manuscripts and archives must be consulted at the Library in London.

This catalogue record may describe a collection of items which cannot all be requested together. Please use the hierarchy viewer to navigate to individual items. Some items may be in use or restricted for other reasons. If you would like to check the availability, contact our Reference Services team, quoting the Reference (shelfmark) above.

User Conditions:

Letter of introduction required to view this manuscript

Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 240 x 160 mm (text space: 145 x 85 mm, in 2 columns; in 4 columns [ff. 543r-576r only]).

Foliation: ff. 576 (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning + 2 at the end); the last folio is partly cut out.

Collation: Mostly in quires of 24. Indicated by catchwords.

Script: Gothic, written below the top line.

Binding: British Museum in-house. Rebound in 1964.

Custodial History:

Origin:

Central France (? Paris).

Provenance:

A Dominican friary in Nevers, department of Nièvre, in central France: their ownership inscription [previously untranscribed] in a medieval hand on f. 542r: 'Biblia conve[n]t[us] niv[er]n[ensis] ord[inis] fr[atru]m p[re]dicato[rum]'(not in Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)).

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 1972): sold to Edward Harley in August 1724 (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 255).

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 Augusti, A.D. 1724’ (f. 1r).

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.

The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by C. E. 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), p. 255.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

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