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Harley MS 3826
- Record Id:
- 040-002049662
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002049662
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000807.0x000151
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100058107372.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3826
- Title:
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Alcuin, De orthographia; Bede, De orthographia; Abbo of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Bella Parisiacae urbis; and other grammatical texts
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains texts on vocabulary and scribal practices and glossaries. It includes:
ff. 1r-24r: Alcuin, De orthographia (incomplete);
ff. 24v-71r: Bede, De orthographia;
ff. 71v-84r: Abbo of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Bella Parisiacae urbis, book III;
ff. 84r-86v: text beginning 'Sculpturam possum in lapidibus ...';
ff. 87r-149r: Martianus Capella, De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii, book IV;
f. 149v: blank;
ff. 150r-167v: glossaries, including a Greek-Latin list of grammatical and metrical terms and glosses to Juvenal's Satirae;
f. 168r: blank;
f. 168v: early modern notes.
Decoration:
Initials in red (throughout); initial in green (f. 87v); rubrics in red (ff. 1r, 71v, 84r, 94r); letters highlighted in red (ff. 25r, 86v, 150r); letters in brown in the margin (ff. 30r-v, 31v); red lines (f. 87r); spaces left blank for initials (ff. 97r-137r, 138r-147v).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002049662", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 3826: Alcuin, De orthographia; Bede, De orthographia; Abbo of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Bella Parisiacae urbis; and other grammatical texts" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002049662 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3826 : Alcuin, De orthographia; Bede, De orthographia; Abbo of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Bella Parisiacae urbis; and other grammatical texts - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[3818]/040-002049662
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100058107372.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- English, Old
Greek, Ancient
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0980
- End Date:
- 1015
- Date Range:
- late 10th-early 11th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: parchment.
Dimensions: binding: 130 x 120 mm (folios: 125 x 80 mm).
Foliation: ff. 168 (+ 5 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and 4 at the end).
Binding: British Museum in-house, rebound in 1966.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Southern England (? The Benedictine Abbey of St Mary, Abingdon): this manuscript's script has previously been attributed to Abingdon, but this has recently been challenged (Stokes, English Vernacular, p. 96).
Provenance:
Late medieval 'nota' inscribed in margin (ff. 103r, 105v).
Anthony Turpyn (d. 1624): inscribed 'Anth: Turpyne' (f. 167v; see Ker, Catalogue, p. 314).
Lord William Howard (b. 1563, d. 1640), antiquary and landowner: owned by 1590 (see Wright Fontes (1972), p. 198).
John Warburton (b. 1682, d. 1759), antiquary and herald, Somerset Herald in 1720: inscribed with his name and 'Bede: / Albinus Anglus' (f. 168v). Both inscriptions are upside-down.
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 by their librarian, Humfrey Wanley 'Bought of Mr. Warburton' (f. [iv] verso).
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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Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts in Microfiche Facsimile, ed. by A.N. Doane and others, 15 (Binghamton, New York, and Tempe, Arizona, 2007), no. 276.
Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk.manuscripts.
- 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. 84.
E. Dümmler, 'Die handschriftliche Überlieferung der lateinischen Dichtungen aus der Zeit der Karolinger.' Neues Archiv der Gesellschaft für Ältere Deutsche Geschichtskunde, 4 (1878-79), p. 557.
Wilhelm Köhler, 'Die Karolingishen Miniaturen', in Zweiter Bericht über die DenkmälerDeutscher Kunst (Berlin: Reimer, 1912), pp. 52-77 (p. 58).
M.L.W. Laistner, A Hand-list of Bede Manuscripts (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1943), p. 137.
N. R. Ker, Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957), no. 241.
C. Leonardo, 'I codici de Marziano Capella.' Aevum, 34 (1960), 1-99 (78-79).
T.A.M. Bishop, English Caroline Miniscule, Oxford Paeleographical Handbooks (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971), p. 13.
C. E. Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 198-99, 333, 347, 383.
Texts and Transmission: A Survey of the Latin Classics, ed. by L. D. Reynolds (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983), p. xxxii.
Helmut Gneuss, 'A Grammarian's Greek-Latin Glossary in Anglo-Saxon England', From Anglo-Saxon to Early Middle English: Studies Presented to E. G. Stanley, ed. by Malcolm Godden, Douglas Gray, and Terry Hoad (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994), pp. 60-86 (with an edition of the glossary on ff. 150-152v, pp. 74-78).
Patrizia Lendinara, 'Glossarial Activity in the Anglo-Saxon Period (with an edition of the glossary to Juvenal, Satires IV-VIII in London, B. L. Harley 3826)', in Anglo-Saxon Glosses and Glossaries, Variorum Collected Studies Series, 662 (Aldershot: Ashgate, 1999), pp. 289-328.
Helmut Gneuss and Michael Lapidge, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: A Bibliographical Handlist of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Written or Owned in England up to 1100 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014), no. 438.
Peter A. Stokes, English Vernacular Minuscule from Æthelred to Cnut circa 990-1035 (D.S. Brewer: Cambridge, 2014), pp. 19, 96.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)