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Harley MS 3373
- Record Id:
- 040-002049204
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002049204
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x000331
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3373
- Title:
- Mnemotic hand diagrams; sermon on Psalm 38: 6 by John Chrysostom; Lives and miracles of SS Sabbatius and Zosima of Solovki
- Scope & Content:
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This composite manuscript comprises three parts that were produced separately and joined together at a later stage, probably in the Harleian Library.
Contents:
Part 1:
ff. 1v-8v: Mnemotic hand diagrams for learning the alphabet, counting and calculating.
Part 2:
ff. 9r-14v: Sermon on Psalm 38: 6 by John Chrysostom.
Part 3:
ff. 15r-162v: Lives and miracles of SS Sabbatius [Savatius] and Zosima of Solovki, founders of Solovetsky Monastery on the Solovetsky Islands, Northern Russia.
Decoration:
Hand diagrams in red ink (ff. 1v-8v). 1 large plain red initial with minor penwork decoration (f. 9r) and 1 without penwork decoration (f. 15r). Rubrics in red (f. 9r).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002049204", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 3373: Mnemotic hand diagrams; sermon on Psalm 38: 6 by John Chrysostom; Lives and miracles of SS Sabbatius and Zosima of Solovki" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002049204 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3373 : Mnemotic hand diagrams; sermon on Psalm 38: 6 by John Chrysostom; Lives and miracles of SS Sabbatius and Zosima of Solovki - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[3374]/040-002049204
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Russian
- Scripts:
- Cyrillic
- Start Date:
- 1675
- End Date:
- 1699
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 17th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 165 x 110 mm [ff. 1-8]; 210 x 165 mm [ff. 9-14, ff. 15-162] (text space: 125 x 75 mm [ff. 1v-8v]; 140 x 120 mm [ff. 9r-14r]; 255 x 115 [ff. 15r-162v]).
Foliation: ff. 162 (+ 5 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end); 1 unfoliated blank paper leaf after f. 14 (f. [14a]); 1 unfoliated paper stub after f. [14a] and f. 29; 1 unfoliated paper pastedown on f. [iv]recto (bibliographiocal notes); and 1 on f. 16r (Harleian spine label, inscribed: 'Historia Russ. MS').
Collation: Indicated by quire signatures; each quire has been mounted separately onto a paper guard.
Script: Cyrillic.
Binding: British Museum in-house; brown half leather with the Harleian arms gold stamped on the outside covers; the previous binding (blind-stamped and gold-tooled brown speckled leather) has been pasted on the inside covers; re-bound on 18 November 1966.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Russia.
Provenance:
Jacobus Seniawicz ['Kiovio-Polonus'], owned until 1715: according to an inscription by Humfrey Wanley on f. 15r [transcribed below] (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 344).
Humfrey Wanley (b. 1672, d. 1726), Anglo-Saxon scholar, palaeographer, and librarian of Robert and Edward Harley, earls of Oxford: inscribed his receipt of this manuscript on f. 15r: 'Humfredo Wanley, hunc Codicem D. D. Jacobus Seniawicz Kiovio-Polonus A. D. 1715' (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 302).
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.
- 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), pp. 20-21.
Vladimir Burtsev, 'Russian Documents in the British Museum', The Slavonic Review, 4:12 (1926), 669-85 (p. 674).
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. 302, 344.
Aksinija Dobreva Džurova and Ivan Simeonov Dujčev, Slavjanski răkopisi ot Britanskija Muzej i Biblioteka (Sofia: Nevski, 1977), no. 15, pl. XLVI.
Ralph Cleminson, The Anne Pennington Catalogue: A Union Catalogue of Cyrillic Manuscripts in British and Irish Collections, ed. by V. du Feu and W. F. Ryan (London: University of London, 1988), pp. 152-54 (no. 100).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- John Chrysostom, Saint, Archbishop of Constantinople, c 347-407,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000456059482,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/305214868 - Places:
- Russia