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Harley MS 3058

Record Id:

040-002048889

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002048889

MDARK:

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LARK:

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Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 3058

Title:

Jerome, Liber interpretationis Hebraicorum nominum; Interpretatio alphabeti Hebraici; Eusebius, De situ et nominibus locorum Hebraicorum; Gloss on the Old and New Testaments

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1v-23v: Jerome, Liber interpretationis Hebraicorum nominum, entitled: 'glosa et interpretacio nominum hebreorum quae sunt in libris divinis', beginning: 'Philo vir disertissimus iudeorum'.

ff. 23v-24r: Interpretatio alphabeti Hebraici (Interpretation of the Hebrew Alphabet), beginning: 'Aleph mille vel doctrina'.

ff. 24r-42r: Eusebius, De situ et nominibus locorum Hebraicorum; translated by Jerome, entitled: 'liber locorum beati ieronimi', beginning: 'Eusebius qui a beato Pamphilo martyre cognomentum sortitus est'.

ff. 42r-76r: Gloss on the Old and New Testaments from Jerome's Quaestiones Hebraicae in Genesim and other authors, entitled: 'collectio Glose novi et veteris testamenti'.

Decoration:

1 large and 1 smaller initial, outlined in red, with foliate motifs and one with clasps, on green and blue grounds (ff. 1v, 24r). Numerous small initials in red, frequently with some penwork decoration in red, occasionally with some green. Rubrics in red.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002048889

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 3058 : Jerome, Liber interpretationis Hebraicorum nominum; Interpretatio alphabeti Hebraici; Eusebius, De situ et nominibus…

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[3059]/040-002048889

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:

1150

End Date:

1199

Date Range:

2nd half of the 12th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 275 x 175 mm (text space: 215 x 140 mm, in 3 columns [ff. 1v-32v] and in 2 columns [ff. 33-76]).

Foliation: ff. 76 (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning + 1 at the end).

Collation: Indicated by quire marks in the centre of the lower margin of the verso of the last leaf of the quires.

Script: Protogothic.

Binding: Post-1600. Gold- and blind-tooled sprinkled brown leather over wooden boards; sewn on five supports.

Custodial History:

Origin:

Western Germany (Arnstein).

Provenance:

The Premonstratensian abbey of St Mary and Nicholas, Arnstein, founded in 1139: its 12th-century ownership inscription on f. 1r: 'Liber sancte Marie sanctique Nycolai in arenstein, si quis eum prefate ecclesie abstulerit anathema sit'; and f. 1v: 'Liber ecclesie sancte marie virginis sanctique nicolai in arinstein' (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 53).

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 (see Diary, ed. by Wright and Wright (1966), I, p. 81 n. 16; Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 254).

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 ‘16 die Januarij, A.D. 1720/21’ (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:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), II, p. 731 (no. 3058).

The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by C. E. Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), I: 1715-1723, p. 81 n. 16.

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. 53, 254.

Sigrid Krämer, Handschriftenerbe des deutschen Mittelalters, Mittelalterliche Bibliothekskataloge Deutschlands und der Schweiz: Ergänzungsband 1, 3 vols (Munich, 1989-90), I (1989), p. 26.

Bruno Krings, Das Prämonstratenserstift Arnstein a. d. Lahn im Mittelalter (1139-1527) (Wiesbaden: Selbstverlag der Historischen Kommission für Nassau, 1990), p. 254, no. 28.

Eyal Poleg, ‘The Interpretations of Hebrew Names in Theory and Practice’, in Form and Function in the Late Medieval Bible, ed. by Eyal Poleg and Laura Light (Leiden: Brill, 2013), pp. 217-36 (p. 219 n. 5).

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Eusebius of Caesarea, Bishop of Caesarea in Palestine, c 263-c 340,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000122758806,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/4929593
Jerome, Saint, c 345-420,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000123213293,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/95147024

Places:

Arnstein, Germany
Western Germany