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Harley MS 3861
- Record Id:
- 040-002049697
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002049697
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000807.0x000174
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3861
- Title:
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Petrus Alfonsi, Dialogus contra Judaeos
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains a copy of the Dialogus contra Judaeos (Dialogue against the Jews), written by the Jewish physician and astronomer Petrus Alphonsi (b. 1062 d. 1140), born Moses Sephardi, who converted to Christianity in 1106. The polemic takes the form of an imagined debate between his former Jewish self 'Moses' and his current Christian self 'Peter'.
Contents:
ff. 1r-94v: Petrus Alphonsi, Dialogus contra Judaeos.
Decoration:
1 Tetragrammaton-Trinity diagram in red and brown, with a yellow wash (f. 53v). Numerous large initials in red or green. Simple initials in red (for the two speakers). Rubrics in red. - Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002049697", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 3861: Petrus Alfonsi, Dialogus contra Judaeos" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002049697 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3861 : Petrus Alfonsi, Dialogus contra Judaeos - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[3853]/040-002049697
- 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:
- 1125
- End Date:
- 1174
- Date Range:
- 2nd quarter of the 12th century-3rd quarter of the 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 260 x 170 mm (written space: 210 x 115 mm) written in two columns.
Foliation: ff. 93 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 2 at the end).
Running headers (ff. 1-17r). Catchwords (1 word respectively). Quire signatures (on the first leaf of quires, near the gutter).
Ampersands.
Script: Protogothic.
Binding: Post-1600. Blind-tooled brown leather over paste boards, gold-tooled edges of the upper and lower covers, rebacked.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England or Northern France.
Provenance:
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. 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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Select digital coverage available for this manuscript; see the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts, https://bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/.
- Publications:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III, no. 3861.
H. L. D. Ward and J. A. Herbert, Catalogue of Romances in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum, 3 vols (London: British Museum, 1883-1910), II, pp. 235-36.
John Victor Tolan, Petrus Alfonsi and his Medieval Readers (Gainesville: University Press of Florida) 1993, p. 189.
Alexander Patschovsky, 'Die Trinitätsdiagramme Joachims von Fiore (+ 1202). Ihre Herkunft und semantische Struktur im Rahmen der Trinitätsikonographie, von deren Anfängen bis ca. 1200', in Die Bildwelt der Diagramme Joachims von Fiore. Zur Medialität religiös-politischer Programme im Mittelalter, ed. by Alexander Patschovsky (Ostfildern: Jan Thorbecke, 2003), pp. 55-114 (p. 109).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Petrus Alfonsi, Jewish Spanish physician and writer, 1062-1140,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000083450832 - Places:
- England
Northern France