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Harley MS 2830
- Record Id:
- 040-002048661
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048661
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x000064
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100056044021.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2830
- Title:
- The Four Gospels
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-3r: The Epistle of St Jerome to Damasus, with an added late 13th-century heading 'Incipit prefatio Iheronimi presbiteri', this same hand repeats the rubrics in margins.
ff. 3r-5v: Prologus Quattuor Evangeliorum. Prologue of St Jerome's commentary on St Matthew.
ff. 5v-58v: The Gospel of St Matthew, preceded by the preface (ff. 5v-6r).
ff. 59r-92v: The Gospel of St Mark, preceded by the preface (ff. 59r-v).
ff. 93r-150r: The Gospel of St Luke, preceded by the preface (ff. 93r-94r). A slightly later hand transcribed the red rubric of the beginning of the Gospel between the lines.
ff. 150r-192v: The Gospel of St John, preceded by the preface (ff. 150r-151r).
Decoration:
Four large inhabited initials in colours at the beginning of each Gospel: 'L'(iber) with a dragon swallowing a man for St Matthew (f. 7r), 'I'(nitium) with a nimbed Evangelist holding a scroll at the beginning of St Mark (f. 60r), 'Q'(uoniam) with a nude man for St Luke (f. 94r), 'I'(n) with interlace patterns and a dragon for St John (f. 151v). Initials in red, highlighted with yellow and/or green (ff. 1r, 5v-6r, 7r, 58v-60r, 93r, 94r, 150r-151v). Small red initials with penwork decoration. Red highlights marking Easter passage in St Mark (f. 85v). Headings and old foliation throughout.
Added pen drawings of the Lamb of God with a chalice, flanked by St John the Baptist, an angel and an eagle with scrolls, and a standing man with book and knife (f. 194r).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- England and France 700-1200 Project
Harley Collection - Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002048661", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 2830: The Four Gospels" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002048661 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 2830 : The Four Gospels - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[7768]/040-002048661
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- A parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100056044021.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1100
- End Date:
- 1124
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 210 x 170 mm (text space: 150 x 115 mm)
Foliation: ff. 192 (+ 6 paper flyleaves and 4 unfoliated parchment flyleaves at the beginning, + 3 unfoliated parchment flyleaves and 4 paper flyleaves at the end of the manuscript); ff. 193-194 are medieval parchment flyleaves.
Collation: 26 i4 (ff. [vii]-[x]); ii6 (ff. 1-6v); iii-vi8 (ff. 7-38v); vii8 (the 3rd and 6th leaves are singletons; ff. 39-46v); viii-vix8 (ff. 47-62v); x8 (the 3rd and 6th leaves are singletons; ff. 63-70v); xi8 (ff. 71-78v); xii8 (the 3rd and 6th leaves are singletons; ff. 79-86v); xiii-xix8 (ff. 87-142v); xx8 (the 3rd and 6th leaves are singletons; ff. 143-150v); xxi-xxii8 (ff. 151-166v); xxiii8 (the 3rd and 6th leaves are singletons; ff. 167-174v); xxiv-xxv8 (ff. 175-190v); xxvi2 (ff. 191-192v); xxvii5 (f. 196 is a singleton; ff. 193-197v).
Script: Caroline minuscule.
Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Northern France or Leuven, Southern Netherlands (now in Belgium) or Meuse Valley, Eastern France.
Provenance:
Interlinear copying of the beginning to Luke in a Protogothic hand (f. 94r).
The Augustinian Priory of Val-Saint-Martin in Leuven, inscribed: 'Est liber hic sancti Martini Lovaniensis' in an early 13th-century script (f. 94v, f. 193r). Inscribed: 'Est liber hic Sancti Martini' in a 14th-century cursive hand (f. 197v). An erased inscription probably from the Augustinian priory of Val-Saint-Martin (f. 192v). Although the priory owned this manuscript in the late 16th century (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 228) it does not appear to be included in the 1639 catalogue of the St Martin's library published by Antonius Sanderus in 1641-44 (Bibliothecae Beligicae Manuscriptae, republished in facsimile by Gregg International Publishers Limited, England, 1969, see part 2, pp. 206-33).
An added scholastic note on the different meanings of 'affectum' and 'effectum' written by a 13th-century cursive hand in the lower margin. Only the part dedicated to 'affectum' has been completed (f. 107r).
The verses of each Gospel have been numbered with Roman numerals by a later hand (13th century).
Added capitals throughout the manuscript in late 14th-century cursive hands.
Gospel passages cross-referenced throughout the manuscript with marginal notes in a medieval hand.
Lectionary marks (ff. 91r, 142r-174v, 185r-189r).
Added pen drawing of the 15th or 16th century (f. 194r).
John Chamberlayne (b. 1666, d. 1723), son of Edward Chamberlayne (b. 1616, d. 1703): his sale 11 March 1723/4 (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)).
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 '11 die Marty, A.D. 1723/4.' (f. [vii]).
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 Originals:
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Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk.manuscripts/.
- 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. 2830.
Wilhelm Köhler, 'Die Karolingischen Miniaturen', in Zweiter Bericht über die Denkmäler Deutscher Kunst (Berlin: Reimer, 1912), pp. 52-77 (p. 57).
H. H. Glunz, History of the Vulgate in England from Alcuin to Roger Bacon (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1933), no. 12.
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. 85, 101, 229, 2862.
P.F. Hovingh, 'Introduction' to Desiderius Erasmus, Annotationes in Novum Testamentum (Amsterdam and London: North Holland, 2003), p. 7.
- 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.