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Harley MS 3353

Record Id:

040-002049184

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002049184

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x0002fd

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 3353

Title:

Composite miscellany relating to medicine, alchemy and mathematics

Scope & Content:

The manuscript includes:

1. Macer Floridus, De viribus herbarum (ff. 2r-38v);

2. Marbod of Rennes, Liber lapidum seu de gemmis (ff. 39r-54v);

3. Pseudo-Ovidius (Thierry, abbot of St. Trond?), De mirabilibus mundi, hexameter verse (ff. 54v-57v);

4. Johannes Philosophus, Summa chiromantiae (ff. 58r-66v);

5. De quatuor temporibus anni (ff. 67r-69r);

6. Doctrina Henrici libello de imagine mundi (ff. 69v-70v).

7. Office of the Passion, Matins, excerpt (ff. 70v-75v);

8. Johannes de Sacro Bosco, Algorismus (ff. 76r-86v);

9. 'Tractatus super Arithmeticam' (ff. 87r-114r);

10. Johannes de Sacro Bosco, Computus (ff. 114v-144);

11. Notes on arithmetics and a drawing of the Virgin (ff. 144v-146r);

12. Pseudo-Ovidius, De vetula, excerpt (ff. 147r-147v);

13. Odo of Tournai, Rhythmomachia with tables (ff. 148r-157r, 157v-159v);

14. Chronicle relating to the year 1291 (ff. 160r-177v).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection
Harley Science Project

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002049184

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 3353 : Composite miscellany relating to medicine, alchemy and mathematics

Contains:

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Hierarchy:

032-002045828[3354]/040-002049184

Container:

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

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Languages:

French, Old
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1250

End Date:

1370

Date Range:

2nd half of the 13th century-Mid 14th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment codex.

Dimensions: 153 x 110 mm (text space: ff. 1-38: 120 x 70 mm, ff. 39-57: 115 x 70 mm, ff. 58-107: 125 x 75 mm; ff. 108-144: 105 x 80 mm; ff.147-159: c. 110 x 65 mm; ff. 160-176: 105 x 70 mm).

Foliation: ff. iv + 178; f. 167 fragmentary. Old alphabetic foliation 'a-z' (ff. 1-38) in pen in the lower margins, continued by symbols for the last five leaves. Modern foliation in pencil ff. '1-178' (including original front and back flyleaves as ff. 1, 177-178; ff. 41v-42r, 75v, 145v, 146v, 178v blank; ff. 144v-145r originally blank).

Collation: The manuscript comprises three units: ff. 1-38, 39-159, 160-176. Gatherings individually mounted on guards: i¹²,ii^6-2(lacking fifth and sixth), iii⁶, vi^16-1 (lacking seventh), v¹⁰, vi^10-1 (tenth excised), vii¹⁶, viii², ix-x¹⁰, xi¹², xii-xv⁸, xvi^8-1 (lacking seventh), xvii^14-1 (lacking fourteenth), xviii⁸, xix^12-1+2 (twelfth excised; two back flyleaves added at the end), with horizontal catchwords and alpha-numerical signature in red in the upper margins of the first leaf of quires.

Layout: Variously ruled in metal point or ink for single columns of 19-35 lines, text below top line.

Script: Gothic cursive (Anglicana). Written in brown ink by several hands.

Binding: British Museum/British Library binding with Harley arms and motto gilt-tooled at centre of covers.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

Added table of contents, 15th century (f. 1v).

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: possibly acquired by Edward Harley after the death of the librarian of the Harleian Collection, Humfrey Wanley (1672-1726).

Edward Harley bequeathed the library to his widow, Henrietta, née Cavendish 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. Harley shelfmarks '144.A.30 / 3353' in dark brown ink followed by '2/III A' in pencil (f. 1r).

Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), no. 3353.

Marbode of Rennes (1035-1123) 'De Lapidibus' considered as a medical treatise; with text, commentary and C. W. King's translation. Together with text and translation of Marbode's Minor works on stones, ed. by J. M. Riddle (Wiesbaden, 1977), p. 131.

A. Borst, Das mittelalterliche Zahlenkampfspiel (Heidelberg, 1986), pp. 294-295.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Bentinck, Margaret Cavendish, duchess of Portland, née Harley, collector of art and natural history specimens and patron of arts and sciences, 11 Feb 1715-17 Jul 1785,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000115857160,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/2356861
Harley, Henrietta Cavendish, Countess of Oxford and Mortimer, née Holles, patron of architecture, 4 Feb 1694-9 Dec 1755,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000030125833,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/6045563
Jeanne, de Châtillon, Countess of Blois and Chartres
Macer Floridus, c 1070-c 1112
Marbod of Rennes, Bishop of Rennes, c 1035-1123,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000122379363,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/241082057
Odo, of Tournai, Bishop of Cambrai
Pseudo-Ovid,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000391458457,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/285292080
Sacrobosco, Johannes de
Thierry, Abbot of St Trond