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Harley MS 3771
- Record Id:
- 040-002049603
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002049603
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000807.0x000118
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100056054567.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3771
- Title:
- Quintus Julius Hilarianus, Chronologia sive Libellus de mundi duratione; Fredegarius Scholasticus, Chronica
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
f. 1:
ff. 2r-11r: Quintus Julius Hilarianus, Chronologia sive Libellus de mundi duratione (Chronology or tract on the duration of the world), beginning: 'Quantocumque tempore, in divinis legibus'.
ff. 11r-145v: Fredegarius Scholasticus, Chronica, a chronicle about the Merovingian kingdoms from 584 to 642, attributed to an author called 'Fredegar' (imperfect, including Book 2 to Book 4. This chronicle is probably the work of several 7th-century chroniclers. The text is preceded by capitula (ff. 11r-12v), beginning (f. 12v): 'Incipit regnum Assiriorum. Primus rex Ninis regnavit annos L'; ending: 'pariter uno die a proceribus eorum et consecratione sacerdotum sublimati sunt in regno'; followed on f. 145v by seven lines of verses partially erased. Parts of Book 4 (chapters 5, 6 and 7) are lacking due to a folio having been cut out between f. 93 and f. 94.
Decoration:
Added sketch in brown ink of a bearded man, probably Hilarianus (f. 1r).
Initials in red and/or brown, some large, some small. Rubrics in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- England and France 700-1200 Project
Harley Collection - Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002049603", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 3771: Quintus Julius Hilarianus, Chronologia sive Libellus de mundi duratione; Fredegarius Scholasticus, Chronica" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002049603 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3771 : Quintus Julius Hilarianus, Chronologia sive Libellus de mundi duratione; Fredegarius Scholasticus, Chronica - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[3772]/040-002049603
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100056054567.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0825
- End Date:
- 0849
- Date Range:
- 2nd quarter of the 9th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 265 x 175 mm (text space: 185 x 125 mm).
Foliation: ff. 145 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end); f. 1* is a medieval flyleaf; a folio between f. 93 and f. 94 has been excised.
Script: Caroline minuscule.
Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house. Rebound in 1964. The gold-tooled red leather covers of a previous binding are pasted inside the present ones.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Eastern France.
Provenance:
The abbey of St Pantaleon, Cologne: its 15th-century ownership inscription, 'Liber Sancti Panthaleonis in Colonia' (f. 2r) (now completely effaced, see Wallace-Hadrill, The Fourth Book of the Chronicle of Fredegar (1960)).
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 (see Wright, fonts Harleiani (1972)): sold to Harley on 20 January 1721/22.
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 ‘20 die mensis Januarii, A.D. 1721/22’ (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.
- Information About Copies:
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- 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), no. 3771.
[E. Maunde Thompson and G. F. Warner], Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts in the British Museum, 2 vols (London: British Museum, 1881-1884), Part II, Latin, pp. 85-86.
Wilhelm Köhler, 'Die Karolingishen Miniaturen', in Zweiter Bericht über die Denkmäler Deutscher Kunst (Berlin: Reimer, 1912), pp. 52-77 (p. 58).
John Michael Wallace-Hadrill, The Fourth Book of the Chronicle of Fredegar with its Continuations (London: Thomas Nelson, 1960), pp. li-lii.
The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by Cyril Ernest Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), I: 1715-1723, p. 138 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. 109, 254.
Patrick J. Geary, Authors in the Middle Ages, 4 vols (Aldershot: Variorum, 1993-1996), IV: Historical and Religious Writers of the Latin West (1996), no. 13.
Berhard Bischoff, Katalog der festländischen Handschriften des neunten Jahrhunderts (mit Ausnahme der wisigotischen) (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1998-), II (2004): Laon-Paderborn, ed. by Birgit Ebersperger, p. 121.
Roger Collins, Die Fredegar-Chroniken, Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Studien und Texte, 44 (Hannover: Hahnsche Buchhandlung, 2007), pp. 102-04.
Magali Coumert, Origines des peuples: les récits du Haut Moyen Age occidental (550-850), (Paris: Institut d'études augustieniennes, 2007), p. 341.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Notes:
- This manuscript is part of The Polonsky Foundation England and France Project: Manuscripts from the British Library and the Bibliothèque nationale de France, 700-1200.