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Harley MS 3742

Record Id:

040-002049574

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002049574

MDARK:

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Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 3742

Title:

Dudo of Saint-Quentin, De moribus et actis primorum Normanniae Ducum; William of Jumièges, Gesta Normannorum Ducum; John of Hildesheim, Historia Trium Regum; 'Liber qui Regius dicitur'; Pierre d'Ailly, collected astronomical works; John Norfolk, In artem progressionis

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-57v: Dudo of Saint-Quentin, De moribus et actis primorum Normanniae Ducum; imperfect at the beginning (lacking the first leaf).

ff. 57v-69r: William of Jumièges, Gesta Normannorum Ducum; redaction A, books 5-7, imperfect at the beginning (lacking the first two leaves).

ff. 70r-107v: John of Hildesheim, Historia Trium Regum; imperfect at the beginning (lacking the first leaf). ff. 107v-149v: 'Liber qui Regius dicitur'; imperfect at the end.

ff. 150r-162v: Pierre d'Ailly, Vigintiloquium de concordia astronomicae veritatis cum theologia; imperfect at the beginning and end (lacking the first and last leaves).

ff. 163r-181r: Pierre d'Ailly, Concordantia astronomiae cum historica narratione; imperfect at the beginning (lacking the first leaf), and ending with the colophon: 'Explicit tractatus de concordia Astronomice veritatis et narracionis historice a domino Petro cardinali Cameracensi compositus et completus in civitate Basiliensis Anno Christi 1414'.

ff. 181r-181v: Note on calculations for the conjunctions of Saturn and Jupiter.

ff. 181v-203r: Pierre d'Ailly, Elucidarium astronomicae concordiae cum theologica et historica veritate; ending with the colophon: 'Explicit tractatus tercius sive Astronomice concrodie com theologica et historica veritate compilatus a domino Petro de Aliaco Cardinali cameracensi et apostolice sedis legato Deo gracias'.

ff. 203v-204v: Pierre d'Ailly, Elucidacio capitis arietis mobilis.

ff. 204v-210r: Pierre d'Ailly, Exhortacio ad concilium generalem super kalendarii correctione.

ff. 210r-211v: Pierre d'Ailly, Astronomical tables: 'Tabula quere aureum numerum anni', 'Tabula latitudinis climatum', 'Tabula elevationis poli super quolibet climate in principio, medio et fine', and 'Tabula prol[i]xioris diei in principio cuiuslibet climatis'.

ff. 211r-213r: Pierre d'Ailly, De vero ciclo lunari.

ff. 213r-213v: Astronomical tables, entitled: 'Iste tres tabule sequentes ad inveniendum annos arabum et per eos coniunciones lunares deserviunt'.

ff. 214r-222v: Pierre d'Ailly, De concordia discordantium astronomorum.

ff. 222v-224r: Pierre d'Ailly, Prima apologetica defensio astronomicae veritatis.

ff. 224r-226v: Pierre d'Ailly, Secunda apologetica defensio astronomicae veritatis.

ff. 226v-228r: Astronomical diagrams and tables, beginning: 'Figura celi que fuit ante Christum 5348 et 243 diebus'.

ff. 228v-231r: Pierre d'Ailly, De figura inceptionis mundi.

f. 232r: Note on calculations for conjunctions between Saturn and Jupiter.

ff. 232v-233v: Astronomical tables and diagrams of 'revoluciones'.

ff. 233v-238r: Pierre d'Ailly, Epilogus mappe mundi.

ff. 238v-240v: John Norfolk, In artem progressionis. ; ending: 'et sic perfectusest iste tractatus brevissimus in collegio animarum Oxon. Anno domini Millesimo quadringentesimo quadragesimo quinto quod Norfolk scriptor ac compilator huius tractatus' (see Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts (1979), p. 139 no. 784, II, pl. 477).

ff. 241r-241v: 'Tabula exemplarium summule super progressione continua et discontinua secundum Norfolk'.

Decoration:

2 'champ' initials in gold in frames with blue and purple grounds with foliate and spray decoration (ff. 107v, 181v). Large (2- to 3-line) initials in blue with pen-flourished decoration in red. Rubrics in red. Paraphs in blue or red. Circular astrological diagrams in red and ink (ff. 161v, 194v, 203v, 227r-228v, 232r-233v). Astronomical tables in red and ink (ff. 210v, 213v, 227v-228, 231v). Spaces left blank for decorated initials (ff. 205r-241r).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002049574

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 3742 : Dudo of Saint-Quentin, De moribus et actis primorum Normanniae Ducum; William of Jumièges, Gesta Normannorum Ducum; John…

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[3743]/040-002049574

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:

1445

End Date:

1445

Date Range:

c 1445

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 320 x 230 mm (text space: 215/20 x 135 mm).

Foliation: ff. 241 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 2 at the end); 2 unfoliated blank but ruled leaves after f. 69 and 3 after f. 241; 1 unfoliated torn parchment stub between f. 107 and f. 10; 1 unfoliated paper pastedown on f. [ii]recto (bibliographical notes).

Collation: Gatherings of 8, with quire signature in the lower right corner of the rectos in the first half of gatherings and horizontal catchwords in the right lower margin of the last verso. Lacking 2 leaves before ff. 1 and 70, and single leaves after ff. 107, 122, 135, 150?, 165?, 182,

Script: Gothic cursive (Anglicana with Secretary features).

Binding: British Museum in-house; red half leather binding with the Harleian arms gold stamped on the outside covers; the spine of the previous cover (with the gold-stamped inscription: 'Guilielmus Gemeticencis - Chronica. / Petrus de Alliaco - Johannes Norfolke') has been pasted on the inside cover.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England, Central (Oxford).

Provenance:

James Anderson (b. 1662, d. 1728), historiographer and antiquary: sold to Edward Harley on 19 November 1725 on behalf of an unnamed owner (see Diary, ed. by Wright and Wright (1966), II, p. 394 n. 9; Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 49).

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, Humfrey Wanley, '19 die mensis Novembris, A.D. 1725' (f. 1r).

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:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), p. 57 (no. 3742).

Lynn Thorndike, 'Four British Manuscripts of Scientific Works by Pierre d'Ailly', Imago mundi, 16 (1962), 157-60.

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. 394 n. 9.

Malcolm Beckwith Parkes, English Cursive Book Hands 1250-1500 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969), p. 6, pl. 6.i.

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. 49, 434.

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), I, p. 139 no. 784, II, pl. 477.

Elisabeth M. C. Van Houts, Gesta Normannorum Ducum: Een studie over de handschriften, de tekst, het geschiedwerk en het genre (Meppel: Krips Repro, 1982), pp. 198-99.

Gerda C. Huisman, 'Notes on the Manuscript Tradition of Dudo of St Quentin's Gesta Normannorum', Anglo-Norman Studies, 6 (1984), 124-35 (pp. 123-27, 131).

Elisabeth M. C. Van Houts, The Gesta Normannorum Ducum of William of Jumièges, Orderic Vitalis, and Robert of Torigni, 2 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992, 1995), I, pp. xcvi-xcvii.

Carl Philipp Emanuel Nothaft, 'Pierre d'Ailly's 'Tractatus de vero cyclo lunari': Introduction and Edition', in Pierre d'Ailly, un esprit universel à l'aube du XVe siècle: actes du colloque international organisé par l'Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres, la Bibliothèque Mazarine, la Fondation Simone et Cino Del Duca, le CERCOR, l'ERC, le Laboratoire d'excellence Hastec, le CNRS, l'IRHT et le LaMOP à la Fondation Simone et Cino Del Duca (Paris) et à l'Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres (Palais de l'Institut, Paris), les 2 et 3 mars 2017, ed. by Jean-Patrice Boudet and others (Leuven: Peeters, 2019), pp. 35-60 (p. 39).

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Anderson, James, historiographer and antiquary, 1662-1728
Dudo of Saint-Quentin, historian, 965-1043,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000114080847,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/166879783
John of Hildesheim, Carmelite friar, d 1375,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000079790092
Pierre d'Ailly [Petrus de Alliaco], French theologian, astrologer, and cardinal, 1351-1420,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000122783681
William of Jumièges, Benedictine monk of the abbey of Jumièges, fl 1190,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000455892835,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/259261547

Places:

Oxford, England