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Harley MS 2886
- Record Id:
- 040-002048717
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048717
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x00009c
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100056044820.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2886
- Title:
- Collectio Dacheriana, with marginalia
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
This manuscript consists of a collection of canons known as Collectio Dacheriana. It includes glosses throughout, added in the late 11th century or early 12th century.
ff. 2r-v: Fragment from a 10th-century glossary.
ff. 3r-104v: Collectio Dacheriana, imperfect at the end, with marginalia, beginning: 'Incipit de utilitate penitentie et quomodo credendum sit de remisione peccatorum per pentitentiam cum prefatione operis subsequentis. Excepto baptismatis munere'.
Decoration:
Three pen drawings of two soldiers killing a man and a dragon with their spears (f. 27v), medallions with Christ and two angels (f. 51v), and two enthroned figures (St Augustine in dispute with Faustinus?) (f. 56r). Title in display capitals and initial with interlace decoration in ink (ff. 3r, 10v). Initials and rubrics in rustic capitals highlighted in yellow.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- England and France 700-1200 Project
Harley Collection - Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002048717", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 2886: Collectio Dacheriana, with marginalia" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002048717 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 2886 : Collectio Dacheriana, with marginalia - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[2887]/040-002048717
- 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_100056044820.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0875
- End Date:
- 0899
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 9th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 270 x 180 mm (text space: 200 x 125 mm).
Foliation: ff. 104 ( + 3 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning + 5 at the end), ff. 1-2 are the original upper flyleaves.
Script: Caroline minuscule.
Binding: Post-1600. 'Harleian' binding of gilt-tooled red morocco, attributable to Thomas Elliott; marbled endpapers. Rebacked and gilt-tooled red morocco doublures added, 19th century.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: France.
Provenance:
Added, late 11th century or early 12th century, glosses throughout (e.g., ff. 3r, 3v).
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: sold to Edward Harley on 13th August 1724 (see Wright and Wright, The Diary of Humphrey Wanley (1966); 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, '13 die mensis 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.
- Information About Copies:
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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. 2886.
Wilhelm Köhler, 'Die Karolingishen Miniaturen', in Zweiter Bericht über die Denkmäler Deutscher Kunst (Berlin: Reimer, 1912), pp. 52-77 (p. 57).
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. 304 n. 7.
J. J. G. Alexander, Norman Illumination at Mont St Michel 966-1100 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1970), p. 101 n. 6.
Cyril E. Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 255, 418.
- 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.