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Harley MS 3159
- Record Id:
- 040-002048990
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048990
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x0001fb
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3159
- Title:
- Genesis and Exodus, glossed
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-214v: The books of Genesis and Exodus, glossed. The manuscript forms part of a two- or multi-volume set together with Harley MS 3160.
Decoration:
2 large historiated initials in gold and colours with foliate motifs and one with a grotesque (ff. 2v, 107v). 1 large decorated initial in gold and colours with foliate motifs and a grotesque (f. 1r). Small initials in red or blue with penwork decoration in the alternate colour. Running headers and chapter numbers in alternate red and blue with penwork decoration. Paraphs in red or blue.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002048990", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 3159: Genesis and Exodus, glossed" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002048990 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3159 : Genesis and Exodus, glossed - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[3160]/040-002048990
- 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:
- 1225
- End Date:
- 1274
- Date Range:
- 2nd quarter of the 13th century-3rd quarter of the 13th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 440 x 280 mm (text space: 260 x 170 mm, frequently in 3 columns).
Foliation: ff. 214 (+ 1 unfoliated paper and 1 parchment flyleaf at the beginning + 1 unfoliated parchment flyleaf and 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the end).
Collation: Indicated by catchwords.
Script: Gothic, written below the top line.
Binding: Post-1600. Blind- and gold-tooled light brown sprinkled leather over wooden boards. Marbled endleaves.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
France or England.
Provenance:
A monastic library founded or endowed by the Guicciardini; perhaps its erased (? ownership) inscription on f. 1r (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 174).
? 'Casley': their name inscribed in a partially effaced modern inscription in pencil on f. [ii]recto: 'Cod Sec. XV [...] Casley [...]'; perhaps referring to the manuscript's use or information provided by David Casley (b. 1681/2, d. 1754), deputy to Richard Bently, Keeper of the Royal Library and Cotton Library. Casley visited Humfrey Wanley, Keeper of the Harleian Library, between 1720 and 1725 and borrowed Harley manuscripts for Bentley's use; this manuscript is not listed in his entry in Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 97.
John Gibson (fl. 1720-1726), dealer; sold to Edward Harley on 13th February 1723/4 (see Diary, ed. by Wright and Wright (1966), II, pp. 213, 216 n. 1; Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 165).
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 Februarij, 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.
- Publications:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), p. 6.
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, pp. 213, 216 n. 1.
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. 162, 174.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- England
France