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Harley MS 3091

Record Id:

040-002048922

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002048922

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x0001b1

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ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 3091

Title:

Computational and theological miscellany, including Bede, De temporum ratione

Scope & Content:

Computational and theological texts mainly by Bede and Paulinus of Aquileia, with the addition of medical recipes. The manuscript includes:

1. Herbal remedies against apostemes, paralysis and other ailments (f. 1r);

2. Paulinus of Aquileia, Regula fidei metrica (ff. 1v-3v);

3. Astronomical tables with added notated proses and antiphones (ff. 4v-6r);

4. Collection of four works by Bede (b. c. 673, d. 735), monk of Wearmouth–Jarrow:

Bede, De natura rerum (ff. 6r-12);
Bede, De Temporibus (ff. 12v-17v);
Bede, Epistola ad Wicthedum (ff. 17v-19v);
Bede, De temporum ratione, chapter 29 added with calendrical notes (ff. 19v-21v);

5. Lunar and calendrical notes and astronomical tables (ff. 22r-40r);

6. Bede, De temporum ratione (ff. 41r-128v);

7. Bede, In Regum librum xxx quaestiones, preceded by the letter to Nocthelm (ff. 129r-139r);

8. Collection of verse relating to the calendar (ff. 139v-140v);

9. Verse-epistle to Fedolius attributed to Columbanus (ff. 141r-141v).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002048922

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 3091 : Computational and theological miscellany, including Bede, De temporum ratione

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Hierarchy:

032-002045828[3092]/040-002048922

Container:

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

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Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

0800

End Date:

0999

Date Range:

9th century-10th century

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment codex

Dimensions: 280 x 200 mm.

Foliation: ff. [ii] + iii+142+ii (the two unfoliated flyleaves are modern paper leaves; ff. i-ii are paper flyleaves, f. iii is a parchment flyleaf); missing one gathering after f. 128; ff. 1-5 and 37-40 are later additions (10th century). Modern foliation in pencil '1-141' (including back flyleaf as f. 142; ff. 40v and 142r are blank).

Collation: i², ii⁴, iii-v⁸, vi^8-1 (eighth missing), vii^6-2 (fifth and sixth cancelled), viii⁶, ix-x⁸, xi¹⁰, xii-xix⁸, xx^6-1 (fifth missing), with hair-side out and two series of quire signatures, alphabetical on ff. 6-88, numerical from f. 89 (beginning with 'vii') erased and substituted with alphabetical.

Layout: Pricked and ruled (single bounding lines) in dry point for single columns of 30-35 lines. Text written above top line.

Script: Caroline minuscule; written in brown ink by several hands; a note in pencil (f. ii verso) identifies one of the hands as that of Harley 5431.

Binding: Harley binding on gilt-tooled red morocco over pasteboards attributable to Thomas Elliott: rolls and tools identical to Elliott's rolls nos. 3-4 and tools nos. 1-3, 10, 15, 18 reproduced in Howard M. Nixon, 'Harleian Bindings', in Studies in the Book Trade in Honour of Graham Pollard, Bibliographical Society Publications, n.s., 18 (Oxford: Oxford Bibliographical Society, 1975), pp. 153-94 (pls. 14 and 15).

Custodial History:

Origin:

France.

Provenance:

The Cathedral of St. Cyr in Nevers, probably owned the manuscript from the 10th century until at least the 14th century: added saints in the calendar, in a 10th-century hand, including Arey (Arigius), bishop of Nevers (f. 26r), note by Stephanus de Mariston, canon of Nevers that he read the book in 1392 (partly erased, f. 142v).

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: purchased by Harley on 13 August 1724.

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 Augustij, A.D. 1724’ (f. iii recto).

Edward Harley bequeathed the library to his widow, Henrietta, née Cavendish 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. Harley shelfmarks '110.B.13 / 3091' in ink and '18/I C' in pencil (f. i recto), the latter repeated in ink on f. ii verso.

Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts, in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: [n. pub.], 1808-12), II (1808), no. 3091.

E. Maunde Thompson and G. F. Warner, Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts in the British Museum, 2 vols (London: British Museum, 1881-1884), Part II: Latin, p. 66.

Wilhelm Köhler, 'Die Karolingishen Miniaturen', in Zweiter Bericht über die Denkmäler Deutscher Kunst (Berlin: Reimer, 1912), pp. 52-77 (p. 58).

Charles W. Jones, 'Manuscripts of Bede's De Natura Rerum', Isis, 27 (1937), 430-40 (p. 433).

C. W. Jones, Bedae Pseudepigrapha: Scientific Writings Falsely Attributed to Bede (Ithaca, New York, 1939), p. 122.

Bedae Opera de temporibus, ed. by C. W. Jones, The Mediaeval Academy of America Publication, 41 (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1943), pp. 152, 162, 165, 168, 169, 363.

M. Huglo, 'Un noveau prosaire Nivernais', Ephemerides Liturgicae, 71 (Rome, 1957), 3-30 (p. 30).

M. Esposito, 'On the New Edition of the Opera Sancti Columbani', Classica et mediaevalia, 21 (1960), 184–203 (p. 187).

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.

A. Cordoliani, 'Le comput ecclésiastique à l'Abbaye du Mont-Cassin au XIe siècle', Anuario de estudios medievales, 3 (1966), 65-89 (p. 77, n. 76).

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. 250, 253-54.

Gerald Bonner, Wearmouth, Bede, and Christian Culture: An Exhibition of Manuscripts at The Central Museum and Art Gallery, Sunderland (Sunderland: [n. pub.], 1974), no. 6.

Birger Munk Olsen, L’Étude des auteurs classiques latins aux XIe et XIIe siècles, 3 vols (Paris: Centre national de la recherche scientifique, 1982-1989), I, p. 336, no. B. 635.

P. Lendinara, 'Presenza e collocazione dei componimenti poetici di Paolino d'Aquileia nei codici medievali', in Paolino d'Aquileia e il contributo italiano all'Europa carolingia. Atti del Convegno Internazionale di StudiCividale del Friuli-Premariacco, 10 - 13 ottobre 2002, ed. by P. Chiesa (Udine, 2003), pp. 329-71 (p. 347).

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Bede the Venerable, Saint, c 673-735,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000120962352,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/61539765
Columbanus, Abbot and missionary, d 615
Elliott, Thomas, bookbinder, fl 1712-1763
Noel, Nathaniel, bookseller, fl 1681, d c 1753
Paulinus of Aquileia, Saint, Patriarch of Aquileia, c 750-802,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000080148179,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/3268904
Stephanus de Mariston, Canon of Nevers