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Harley MS 3217
- Record Id:
- 040-002049048
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002049048
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x000245
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3217
- Title:
- Julian of Toledo, Prognosticon futuri saeculi
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-77v: Julian of Toledo (b. 642, d. 690), Prognosticon futuri saeculi libri tres (Prognostics on future ages, in three books); ff. 1r-2v, 77r-v are written in an Italian humanist hand and were added in the 16th century to replace lost leaves (see Hillgarth, Sancti Iuliani Toletanae (1976), p. xxviii).
f. 78 was originally a medieval pastedown, with a mirrored imprint from a medieval parchment fragment used for binding on the verso.
Decoration:
Large (2-3 line) initials in red.
Capitals marked in red. Rubrics in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002049048", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 3217: Julian of Toledo, Prognosticon futuri saeculi" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002049048 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3217 : Julian of Toledo, Prognosticon futuri saeculi - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[3218]/040-002049048
- 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:
- 0975
- End Date:
- 1024
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 10th century-1st quarter of the 11th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Letter of introduction required to view this manuscript
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 170 x 110-115 mm (written area 130 x 85 mm).
Foliation: ff. 78 (+ 2 unfoliated modern paper and 2 unfoliated early modern parchment flyleaves at the beginning + 1 unfoliated modern paper flyleaf at the end).
2 unfoliated blank early modern parchment leaves after f. 77.
ff. 1-2, 77 are added parchment leaves of the 16th-century, written in an Italian humanist hand, to replace lost leaves (see Hillgarth, Sancti Iuliani Toletanae (1976), p. xxviii).
f. 78 was originally a medieval pastedown, with a mirrored imprint from a medieval parchment fragment used for binding on the verso.
Script: Caroline minuscule, by several scribes.
Binding: Post-1600. Tan leather with gilt- and blind-tooling.
Condition: Damage by mould and probably rodents in the upper right corners (especially on ff. 8-61).
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
France.
Provenance:
John Chamberlayne (b. 1666, d. 1723), son of Edward Chamberlayne (b. 1616, d. 1703): sale of his library conducted by Daniel Browne, bookseller at the Black Swan and Bible Without-Temple-Bar, 11 March 1723/4 (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), pp. 85, 101).
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, HumfreyWanley, ‘11 die Martij, A.D. 1723/4’ (f. [iii recto]).
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 available for this manuscript: see Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/welcome.htm.
- 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. 10, no. 3217.
Jocelyn N. Hillgarth, Sancti Iuliani Toletanae Sedis Episcopi Opera Pars I, Corpus Christianorum Series Latina, 115 (Turnhout: Brepols, 1976), pp. xxviii, lii.
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. 281, n. 6.
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. 85, 101.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Chamberlayne, John, translator and literary editor, 1666-1723
- Places:
- France