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Harley MS 2833
- Record Id:
- 040-002048664
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048664
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x000067
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100059311452.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2833
- Title:
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Vulgate Bible, volume 1, Genesis to Job
- Scope & Content:
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This 12th-century manuscript contains the first volume of an illuminated Latin Vulgate in two parts. It contains the Book of Genesis to the Book of Job with prologues that are attributed to St Jerome (b. 347, d. 420) and tables of contents. The manuscript was preserved at a religious house, as it features markers for liturgical lections and a list of possessions of a church on f. 319v. It may originate from the Cathedral of St Maurice at Angers as indicated on the Harleian binding and the Harleian catalogue. The second volume of this 2-volume set is Harley MS 2834.
Contents:
ff. 1r-29r: The Book of Genesis.
ff. 29r-52r: The Book of Exodus.
ff. 52r-67r: The Book of Leviticus.
ff. 67r-88r: The Book of Numbers.
ff. 88r-106v: The Book of Deuteronomy.
ff. 106v-119r: The Book of Joshua.
ff. 119r-131v: The Book of Judges.
ff. 132v-134r: The Book of Ruth.
ff. 134r-150v: The Book of 1 Kings.
ff. 150v-164r: The Book of 2 Kings.
ff. 164r-180r: The Book of 3 Kings.
ff. 180r-195v: The Book of 4 Kings.
ff. 195v-219r: The Book of Isaiah.
ff. 219r-248v: The Book of Jeremiah.
ff. 248v-273v: The Book of Ezekiel.
ff. 273v-285r : The Book of Daniel.
ff. 285r-288v: The Book of Hosea.
ff. 288v-290r: The Book of Joel.
ff. 290r-293r: The Book of Amos.
f. 293r: The Book of Obadiah.
ff. 293r-294r: The Book of Jonah.
ff. 294r-296r: The Book of Micah.
ff. 296r-297r: The Book of Nahum
ff. 297r-298r: The Book of Habakkuk.
ff. 298r-299r: The Book of Zephaniah.
ff. 299r-300r: The Book of Haggai.
ff. 300r-304r: The Book of Zechariah.
ff. 304r-305v: The Book of Malachi.
ff. 305v-319v: The Book of Job.
f. 319v: Glosses on the Book of Job (beginning: ‘Hos sermones in aliud inveni exemplar’; ‘Scriptum est autem eum resurrecturum’; and ‘Iob exemplar patienciae. que non mysteria suo sermone complectitur’).
Decoration:
9 large historiated initials in colours and gold backgrounds and frames with foliate decoration and interlace.
The subjects of the historiated initials are as follows:
f. 2r: Creation scenes, at the beginning of Genesis.
f. 30r: Pharaoh addressing Moses and Aaron, at the beginning of Exodus.
f. 68r: Moses in prayer before God, at the beginning of Numbers.
f. 107v: God speaking to Joshua, at the beginning of Joshua.
f. 131v: Ruth standing, at the beginning of Ruth.
f. 134v: David and Goliath, at the beginning of 1 Kings.
f. 195v: Isaiah writing, at the beginning of Isaiah.
f. 285v: A man lying in bed with a woman by his side and God above, at the beginning of Hosea.
f. 306r: Job on the dungheap, at the beginning of Job.
10 large initials in colours and gold with foliate decoration, interlace, and occasionally hybrid figures and naked human figures, birds (ff. 1r, 52v, 89v, 119v, 150v, 164v, 180v, 219r, 249r, 274r). 26 large initials in gold with a combination of blue, red, green and ochre penwork (ff. 107r, 133r, 195v, 219r, 273v, 285r, 289r, 290r (x2), 293r (x3), 293v, 294r, 296r (x2), 297r (x2), 298r (x2), 299r, 299v, 300r, 304r (x2), 305v). 3 large initials in silver with blue and red penwork decoration (ff. 248v, 288v, 294r), and 1 in gold, silver and blue with red penwork decoration (f. 300r). Small plain initials in blue, red, or brown (only f. 19v). Rubrics in red or blue. Roman numerals in red. Manicules and faces added along the text in brown ink (e.g., ff. 3r, 4v, 5r, 5v, 6r, 7r, 7v, 8r, 9r, 10r, 11r, 11v, 62r, 167r).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- England and France 700-1200 Project
Harley Collection - Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002048664", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 2833: Vulgate Bible, volume 1, Genesis to Job" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002048664 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 2833 : Vulgate Bible, volume 1, Genesis to Job - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[7766]/040-002048664
- 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_100059311452.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1150
- End Date:
- 1174
- Date Range:
- 3rd quarter of the 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 500 x 360 mm (text space: 355 x 230 mm, in 2 columns).
Foliation: ff. 319 ( + 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end); parts of the lower margins of f. 241 and f. 267 have been cut out; damage to the lower margins of f. 318 and f. 319; f. 319 also has damage in the upper margin, causing some loss of text; medieval foliation throughout the manuscript.
Script: Protogothic.
Binding: Post-1600. 'Harleian' binding of gold-tooled brown leather, the spine inscribed at the British Museum: ‘TEXTUS SS. BIBLIORUM ANDEGAVENSIS ECCLESIAE CATHEDRALIS VOLUMEN I. COD. SEC. XI.’.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Angers, Western France.
Provenance:
?The Cathedral of St Maurice, Angers: according to the early 18th-century Harleian spine: 'Textus SS. Bibliorum Andegavensis Ecclesiae Cathedralis'; and the Harleian catalogue: ‘Andegavensis Ecclesiae cathedralis Codex fuisse dicitur’ (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 50); perhaps its list of possessions added in a 13th- or 14th-century script on f. 319v: 'Hec sunt ornam[en]ta ist[ius] ecclesie. Sex caliceis. Uno encensiers arge[n]ti. Quatuor bibles duo veit et duo nov[...]. Viginti quinque toalleis. Tria gradualia. Duo antifonaria. [erased] psalteria. Duo tropiers. Un[o] eva[n]gelier. Unu[s] epistolier' followed by an erased inscription; perhaps its added markers for lections in a 15th- or 16th-century script: ff. 209r, 214r (‘lectio 1 & 2 in galicantu’); 206v (‘In epiphania dominu lectio prima’); 207r (‘lectio 3’); 219r (‘hec est pirma lectio dominice [sic] passionis’); perhaps its marginal annotations and Roman numerals throughout the manuscript.
John Chamberlayne (b. 1666, d. 1723), son of Edward Chamberlayne (b. 1616, d. 1703): sale of his library conducted by Daniel Browne, bookseller at the Black Swan and Bible Without-Temple-Bar, 11 March 1723/4 (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 101).
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 Martij, A.D. 1723/4’ (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.
- Information About Copies:
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Full digital coverage available for this manuscript; see Digitised Manuscripts, https://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), p. 714.
John Alexander Herbert, Schools of Illumination: Reproductions from Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1862-1948), V (1906): Carolingian and French to Early 14th Century, p. 4.
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. 281 n. 6.
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. 50, 85, 101.
- 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.