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Harley MS 3121
- Record Id:
- 040-002048952
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048952
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x0001d0
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3121
- Title:
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Arator, De actibus apostolorum, glossed
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
f. 1r-v: Introductory text about Arator (beginning 'Tempore quo gothi wandali obsederant romam').
f. 2r-v: Arator, Epistola ad Florianum, with interlinear and marginal glosses in Latin.
ff. 2v-3r: Arator, Epistola ad Vigilium, with interlinear and marginal glosses in Latin.
ff. 3r-56v: Arator, De actibus apostolorum (ends imperfectly at II, 1246), with interlinear and marginal glosses in Latin and in one instance in Old High German (f. 26v).
Decoration:
1 drawing in oxidised red and brown ink: Arator presenting a scroll to St Peter (f. 1r).
Small initials in plain oxidised red. Textual divisions marked with ink flourishes in the outer margins.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002048952", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 3121: Arator, De actibus apostolorum, glossed" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002048952 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3121 : Arator, De actibus apostolorum, glossed - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[3122]/040-002048952
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- German, Old High
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1060
- End Date:
- 1140
- Date Range:
- Late 11th century-Early 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 210 x 140 mm (text space: 160 x 100 mm).
Foliation: ff. 56 (+ 2 paper and 2 unfoliated medieval parchment flyleaves at the beginning and 2 paper flyleaves at the end).
Script: Caroline minuscule.
Binding: British Museum. Harleian binding of gold-tooled red leather; marbled endpapers.
Collation: i-vii8 (ff. 1-56).
Guide letters. Quire signatures.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Germany.
Provenance:
Possible shelf mark inscription, 17th? century: '129', or '29' altered to '19' (f. 1r).
?Johann Georg Graevius (b. 1632, d. 1703), German classical scholar and critic: sold to Wilhelm in 1703 with the rest of his library? (see Wright, Fontes (1972)).
?Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (b. 1658, d. 1716), owner of a library in Düsseldorf: bought the entire Graevius library in 1703 (Wright, Fontes (1972)).
?Giovanni Giacomo Zamboni (d. 1753), resident in London for the Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (c. 1723-1753), friend of Michael Mattaire, the classical scholar and historian of printing: bought the Wilhelm library sometime before 1724 through Johann Büchels (b. 1659, d. 1738) (Wright, Fontes (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 '20 die mensis Octobris, / A.D. 1725.' (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:
- Select digital coverage: Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts, http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/
- Publications:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: [n. pub.], 1808-12), III, no. 3121.
A. C. Clark, 'The Library of J. G. Graevius', The Classical Review, 5 (1891), 365-72 (p. 370).
Herbert Thoma, ‘Altdeutsches aus Londoner Handschriften’, Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutscher Sprache und Literatur, 73 (1951), 197-271 (p. 234).
The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by C. E. Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: The Bibliographical Society, 1966), II, 1722-1726, pp. 285-86.
C. E. Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 168-69, 357.
Michael Lapidge, Anglo-Latin Literature 600-899 (London: Hambledon Press, 1996), p. 484 n.
Rolf Bergmann and Stefanie Stricker, Katalog der althochdeutschen und altsächsischen Glossenhandschriften (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2005), no. 420, pp. 888-89.
BStK Online, Datenbank der althochdeutschen und altsächsischen Glossenhandschriften: https://glossen.germ-ling.uni-bamberg.de/bstk/420 (retrieved 8th June 2021).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)