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Harley MS 2831
- Record Id:
- 040-002048662
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048662
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x000065
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2831
- Title:
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Gospelbook
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-92v: Gospelbook; ff. 2r-3r are fully written but badly faded.
The manuscript contains later additions:
Passages throughout the manuscript are frequently annotated in red or brown ink by the scribe of the main text. The entries contain calendrical information and some liturgical directions. Capitulation and further marginal annotations appear in a 15th-century hand (see especially ff. 42v, 92v).
Decoration:
Coloured initials with coloured pen decoration at the beginning of Mark ('I'[nitium], f. 29v) and John ('I'[n], f. 73v). Lettering in blue, red and green describing the contents of the text (f. 3v). Initials in red with pen decoration at the beginning of Matthew ( 'L'[iber], f. 4r) and Luke ('Q'[uoniam], f. 46v), and in prefatory texts (ff. 1r-2r, 4r, 29r, 46r). Marginal notes marked by borders with some pen flourishing (to f. 44r, and f. 92v). Red highlights throughout the text.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002048662", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 2831: Gospelbook" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002048662 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 2831 : Gospelbook - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[2832]/040-002048662
- 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:
- 1125
- End Date:
- 1174
- Date Range:
- 2nd quarter of the 12th century-3rd quarter of the 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 205 x 125 mm (text space: 155 x 70 mm).
Foliation: ff. 92 (+ 3 paper flyleaves at the beginning + 1 unfoliated parchment flyleaf and 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end); f. 93 is a medieval parchment leaf that originally served as a flyleaf.
Collation: i10 (ff. 1r-10v); ii-x8 (ff. 11r-90v); folios 91 and 92 are singletons.
Script: Protogothic.
Binding: Post-1600. 'Harleian' red leather binding with extensive gold-tooling and -stamping. Marbled endleaves
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Italy
Provenance:
Andrew Hay (d. 1754?), antiquarian. Hay held a commission from Edward Harley dated 1720 to acquire manuscripts in France and Italy; this manuscript appears in records of a sale to Harley following a buying trip (see Diary, ed. by Wright and Wright (1966), I, p. 248; and Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 183).
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 July, A.D. 1723’ (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:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), II (1808), p. 714 (no. 2831).
The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by Cyril Ernest Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), I: 1715-1723, p. 248.
Wilhelm Köhler, 'Die Karolingischen Miniaturen', in Zweiter Bericht über die Denkmäler Deutscher Kunst (Berlin: Reimer, 1912), pp. 52-77 (p. 57).
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. 182-83, 417.
Cyril Ernest Wright, 'Manuscripts of Italian Provenance in the Harleian Collection in the British Museum: Their Sources, Associations and Channels of Acquisition', in Cultural Aspects of the Italian Renaissance: Essays in Honour of Paul Oskar Kristeller, ed. by C. H. Clough (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1976), pp. 462-84 (p. 469).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- Italy