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Harley MS 3845
- Record Id:
- 040-002049681
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002049681
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000807.0x000164
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100056055075.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3845
- Title:
- Collectio Dacheriana
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
This manuscript consists of the Collectio Dacheriana, a collection of canon law created in Southern France, perhaps in Lyon, during the Carolingian reform in the first half of the 9th century, according to Kéry, Canonical Collections (1999).
ff. 1r-147v: Collectio Dacheriana, preceded by the preface (ff. 1r-7v) and capitula (ff. 8r-20r); beginning of the preface: 'De utilitate pentitentiae et quomodo credendum sit de remissione peccatorum per penitentiam. Excepto baptismatis munere'.
Decoration:
One very large initial in red and green (f. 1r).
Plain initials in red or brown, some large, some small. Rubrics in red.
Ruled in hardpoint.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- England and France 700-1200 Project
Harley Collection - Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002049681", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 3845: Collectio Dacheriana" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002049681 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3845 : Collectio Dacheriana - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[3837]/040-002049681
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- A parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100056055075.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0850
- End Date:
- 0874
- Date Range:
- 3rd quarter of the 9th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Letter of introduction required to view this manuscript
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 190 x 160 mm (text space: 135 x 90 mm).
Foliation: ff. 147 (+ 3 unfoliated paper and 1 parchment flyleaves at the beginning and at the end).
Script: Caroline minuscule.
Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house. Rebound in 1981.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Northeastern France.
Provenance:
Added, 10th-century verses from anonymous, Proverbia Catonis (Cato's proverbs), beginning: 'Tolle mali testes, levius mala nostra feremus/ Vir constans quidquid coepit complere laborat' (f. 123r).
The Church of St Pierre, Ghent, Belgium: its 12th-century ownership inscription inscribed, 'Liber S[ancti] Petri Gandensis aecclesie. Servanti benedictio: tollenti maledictio. Qui folium tulerit vel cortaverit anathena (sic) sit' (f. 1r).
Humfrey Wanley (b. 1672, d. 1726), Anglo-Saxon scholar, palaeographer, and librarian of Robert and Edward Harley, earls of Oxford: inscribed, 'Liber Humfredi Wanley, AD 1714' (f. 1r).
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 (see above).
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. 3845.
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. 161, 344.
Hubert Mordek, Kirchenrecht und Reform im Frankenreich (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1975), p. 262.
Lotte Kery, Canonical Collections of the Early Middle Ages (ca. 400-1140): A Bibliographical Guide to the Manuscripts and Literature (Washington: Catholic University of America Press, 1999), p. 88.
Berhard Bischoff, Katalog der festländischen Handschriften des neunten Jahrhunderts (mit Ausnahme der wisigotischen) (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1998-2014), II (2004): Laon-Paderborn, ed. by Birgit Ebersperger, p. 121 (no. 2480).
- 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.