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Harley MS 2834
- Record Id:
- 040-002048665
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048665
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x000068
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100059312949.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2834
- Title:
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The second volume of a Vulgate in two parts, containing the Book of Proverbs to the Book of Revelation
- Scope & Content:
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This 12th-century manuscript contains the second volume of an illuminated Latin Vulgate in two parts. It contains the Book of Proverbs to the Book of Revelation, with prologues that are attributed to St Jerome (b. 347, d. 420) and tables of contents, and ends with the apocryphal Epistle to the Laodiceans. The origin of this copy of the Vulgate is uncertain: it may originate from the Saint Maurice Cathedral of Angers as indicated on the two volumes’ Harleian bindings and in their description in the Harleian catalogue. It was preserved at a religious house, as both volumes feature markers for liturgical lections and the first volume (Harley MS 2833) contains a list of possessions of a church on f. 319v.
Contents:
ff. 1r-11r: The Book of Proverbs.
ff. 11r-15r: The Book of Ecclesiastes.
ff. 15r-16v: The Song of Solomon.
ff. 16v-24v: The Book of Wisdom.
ff. 24v-46v: The Book of Sirach.
ff. 46v-61v: The Book of 1 Chronicles.
ff. 61v-80r: The Book of 2 Chronicles.
ff. 80r-92v: The Book of Esdras.
ff. 92v-99r: The Book of Esther.
ff. 99r-104r: The Book of Tobit.
ff. 104r-110v: The Book of Judith.
ff. 110v-126v: The Book of 1 Maccabees.
ff. 126v-138r: The Book of 2 Maccabees.
ff. 138r-138v: St Jerome, Commentarius super Evangelia (Commentary on the Gospels).
ff. 138v: Argumentum Evangeliorum (Argumentum of the Gospels), beginning: ‘Sciendum etiam nequis ignarum ex similitudine numerorum’.
ff. 139r-140r: Eusebian Canon Tables.
ff. 140v-157v: The Gospel of Matthew.
ff. 157v-168r: The Gospel of Mark.
ff. 168r-185v: The Gospel of Luke.
ff. 185v-198v: The Gospel of John.
ff. 198v-215r: The Acts of the Apostles.
ff. 215r-258v: The Letters of the Apostles.
ff. 258v-266v: The Book of Revelation.
f. 266v: The Epistle to the Laodiceans.
Decoration:
Canon tables framed by arches in purple, blue, green and ochre preceding the Gospels (ff. 139r-140r).
48 large initials in gold with penwork decoration in a combination of blue, green, red and ochre (ff. 1r, 1v, 11v, 15r, 17r, 24v, 25v, 46v, 47r, 61v, 80r, 81r, 92v, 93r, 99r (2x), 104r (2x), 111v, 127v, 142r, 158v, 169v, 186r, 199r, 215, 217r, 218v, 219v, 221v (2x), 222r, 224v, 230v, 236v, 240v, 243r, 245r, 246v, 247v, 248v, 250r, 251v, 253r, 253v, 254v, 259r, 266v); 15 large and small initials in blue or red with penwork decoration in blue, green, and red (ff. 138r, 141r, 157v, 168r, 185v, 198v, 215r, 222r, 222v, 223r, 230v, 245r, 251v, 254r, 258v); Large and small plain in blue or red throughout the manuscript. Rubrics in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- England and France 700-1200 Project
Harley Collection - Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002048665 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 2834 : The second volume of a Vulgate in two parts, containing the Book of Proverbs to the Book of Revelation - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[2835]/040-002048665
- 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_100059312949.0x000001
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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: 485 x 350 mm (text space: 340 x 225 mm).
Foliation: ff. 266 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 2 at the end); the lower margin of f. 217 has been cut out; 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 II. COD. SEC. XI.’.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Angers, Western France.
Provenance:
?The Saint Maurice Cathedral of 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 of Harley MS 2833: '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: ‘Lectio prima in die assumptionis’ (f. 15r); ‘Lc iii’ (f. 203r); ‘in octavi Sancti Stephani Lc i De Actibus Apostolorum’, ‘Lc ij’ and ‘Lc iij’ (f. 203v); ‘beati pauli apostoli’, ‘Dominica infra octavam nativitatis’, ‘Lectio Prima’, ‘Lectio 2a’ and ‘Lectio 3a’ (f. 224v); ‘De Sancto Silvestro’, ‘Lectio ia De Epistola ad Romanos’ (followed by ‘ii’ and ‘iii’) and ‘in circoncisione Domini Lectio ia’ (f. 225r); ‘L ij’’ and ‘L iij’ (f. 225v); ‘In octavo ss. innocentium’, ‘L prima’, ‘L ij’ and ‘L iij’ (f. 226r); ‘In vigilia epiphaniae Lc ia’ and ‘L ija’ (f. 226v); ‘L iija’ (f. 227r). 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.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot, Saint Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and to Philemon: A Revised Text with Introductions, Notes, and Dissertations (London: Macmillan, 1875), p. 349 [on the Epistle to the Laodiceans].
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.