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Harley MS 3165

Record Id:

040-002048996

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002048996

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x000201

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 3165

Title:

Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy, glossed

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-84v: Genesis, glossed (beginning imperfectly due to loss of leaves).

ff. 85r-185r: Exodus, glossed.

ff. 186r-v: prologue to Leviticus.

ff. 187r-258r: Leviticus, glossed.

ff. 258r-259r: prologue to Numbers.

ff. 259r-348v: Numbers, glossed.

ff. 348v-349v: prologue to Deuteronomy.

ff. 349v-374v: Deuteronomy, glossed (ending imperfectly due to loss of leaves).

All quires have been thoroughly corrected and marked 'correctus' in lower margin of the last leaf, near the fore-edge (see e.g., ff. 12v, 24v, 48v or 60v).

Decoration:

4 historiated initials in blue and pink, with some gold, grey, green, red and white: Moses conversing with two men (f. 85r); two men offer a sheep before an altar (f. 187r); Moses speaks to God, who emerges from a cloud (f. 259r); Moses holding a Tablet of the Law and conversing with a man (f. 349v). 3 decorated initials with foliate motifs and grotesques, in pink and blue with some gold, grey, green, red and white (ff. 258r, 348v, 349r). Simple initials in red or blue with pen-flourishing in the alternate colour. Paraphs in blue or red. Running headers and chapter numbers in alternate red and blue.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002048996

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 3165 : Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy, glossed

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[3166]/040-002048996

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:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 400 x 260 mm (text space: 240 x 140 mm).

Foliation: ff. 374 (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning and 1 at the end).

Script: Gothic, written below the top line.

Collation: indicated by catchwords.

Binding: Post 1600. Gold- and blind-tooled dark brown leather over wooden boards; gauffered edges with a vine-leaf painted pattern.

Custodial History:

Origin: Central France.

Provenance:

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.

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:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), no. 3165.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)