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Harley MS 3761
- Record Id:
- 040-002049593
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002049593
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000807.0x00010e
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3761
- Title:
- Book of Deuteronomy, with gloss
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-122v: Book of Deuteronomy, with gloss, ending imperfectly.
Lacking the end of the text (end of chapter 34).
The manuscript contains a later addition:
f. 123: An (untranscribed) inscription, beginning: ‘cerasa (?) prima [etc.]; added in the 13th century.
Decoration:
Large initials in colours and gold with foliage and white dog-like hybrid figures (f. 1r). Coloured initials in red or blue. Paraphs in red or blue.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002049593", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 3761: Book of Deuteronomy, with gloss" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002049593 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3761 : Book of Deuteronomy, with gloss - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[3762]/040-002049593
- 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:
- 1200
- End Date:
- 1249
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 13th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 255 x 170 mm (text space: 175 x 110 mm, with gloss).
Foliation: ff. 123 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves and 2 unfoliated parchment leaves at the beginning + 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end); + 2 unfoliated parchment leaves after f. 122; ff. [iii] and 123 are former pastedowns.
Collation: Mainly in quires of 8. Quire marks (Roman numerals on the verso of the last leaf of each quire, and sometimes also on the first leaf).
Script: Gothic, written above the top line (below the top line for the gloss).
Binding: Post-1600. Brown calf with gold fillets, blind-stamped and gold-tooled.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Central France.
Provenance:
An unknown owner, ? 15th century: their signature inscribed on f. 2r and 121r: 'chasteau [?] Sid'.
Nathaniel Noel (fl. 1681, d. c. 1753), bookseller, employed by Edward Harley for buying books and manuscripts chiefly on the Continent, where his agent was George Suttie: sold to Edward Harley on 13 August 1724 (Diary, ed. by Wright and Wright (1966), II, p. 304 n. 7l; Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), pp. 253-55).
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 ‘13 die mensis Augusti, A.D. 1724’ (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.
- 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. 59.
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. 304 n. 7.
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. 253-55.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- Central France