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Harley MS 3272

Record Id:

040-002049103

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002049103

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x00028c

LARK:

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Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 3272

Title:

Logica vetera and Logica nova, Aristotle, De anima

Scope & Content:

The manuscript is composed of two originally independent volumes:

ff. 1r-207v: Logica vetara and Logica nova made of several booklets, written by several scibes at the beginning of the 14th century, and provided with rubricated titles by one contemporary hand.

ff. 208r-227v: Aristotle, De anima, copied in 1303.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002049103

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 3272 : Logica vetera and Logica nova, Aristotle, De anima

Contains:

Harley MS 3272, ff 1r-207v : Logica vetus and Logica nova
Harley MS 3272, ff 208r-227v : Aristotle, De anima

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Hierarchy:

032-002045828[3273]/040-002049103

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Parchment codex.

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1300

End Date:

1324

Date Range:

1st quarter of the 14th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: ff. 1-68: 240 x 180 mm (text space: 120 x 60/80 mm); ff. 69-72: 225 x 180 mm (text space: ff. 69r-70r: 140 x 100 mm; ff. 70v-72v: 205 x 155 mm); ff. 73-207: 250/260 x 190 mm (text space: ff. 73-120: 140 x 80 mm; ff. 121-142: 135 x 65 mm; ff. 143r-143v: 230 x 155 mm; ff. 144-207: 120/135 x 70/75 mm); ff. 208-227: 255 x 190 mm (text space: 175 x 110 mm).

Foliation: ff. 227 (+ 10 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves: 6 at the beginning and 4 at the end).

Script: Gothic cursive. Written by several scribes.

Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house binding. Rebound in 1968. The covers of a previous brown leather binding are pasted inside the present ones. A fragment of the brown leather spine of a previous binding, with 'Porphyrius' in gold letters, is pasted onto f. [vi].

Custodial History:

Origin: Part 1 (ff. 1r-207v): England (?); Part 2 (ff. 208r-227r): Germany.

Provenance:

Part 1 (ff. 1r-207v):

Added inscriptions reading: 'Edwardus dei gratia rex' (f. 159r) and 'Edward p[ar] la g[ra]ce de diux (sic) roy dengletere', in an early 14th-century English hand.

Part 2 (ff. 208r-227r):

Written by the scribe Volpertus, his colophon: 'Explicit liber tertius de anima completus per manus Volperti de Wolmarkusen [possibly Vollmarshausen near Kassel]. Anno domini MCCCIII in die dionis apostolorum, deo gratias' (f. 227r).

Part 1 and 2:

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.

Administrative Context:

Part 1 (ff. 1r-207v): England (?); Part 2 (ff. 208r-227r): Germany.

Information About Copies:

Select digital coverage available for this manuscript, see Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/welcome.htm.

Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-1812), III (1808), no. 3272.

George Lacombe, Aristoteles Latinus (Rome: Libreria dello Stato, 1939), no. 300.

Andrew G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c. 700-1600 in The Department of Manuscripts: The British Library, 2 vols (London: British Library, 1979), no. 744.

Sten Ebbesen, 'Stray Questions: Little Logical Notes in British and French Manuscripts', Cahiers de l'Institut du Moyen Âge Grec et Latin, 57 (1988), pp. 68-80 (pp. 79-80).

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

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