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Harley MS 4067

Record Id:

040-002049904

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002049904

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000807.0x000243

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 4067

Title:

Bible, including Jerome’s preface, and Interpretationes Hebraicorum nominum

Scope & Content:

Bible with Interpretationes Hebraicorum nominum (Explanations of Hebrew names), an alphabetical list of Hebrew names found in the Bible, with a short Latin explanation, attributed to Stephen Langton, archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1228).

ff. 1v-2r: Jerome’s preface to the Vulgate.

ff. 2-331v: Bible.

ff. 332r-355r: Interpretationes Hebraicorum nominum.

ff. 355v-356r: Gilbert de la Porrée, Prologue to Revelation, very faded.

ff. 1r, 356v are blank.

ff. 1 and 356 are pastedowns.

Decoration:

1 very large historiated initial in colours (f. 2r). 80 smaller historiated initials in colours (ff. 1v, 15v, 25v, 32v, 43r, 52r, 58r, 65r, 66v, 75r, 83v, 92r, 100v, 107v, 119v, 123r, 126v, 129r, 132v, 136v, 143v, 147v, 149v, 151r, 152v, 154v, 156r, 160r, 166r, 167v, 169r, 173r, 184r, 196r, 211r, 212r, 214r, 228v, 234r, 236r, 237r, 239r (x 2), 240r, 241r, 242r, 242v, 243v, 246v, 247v, 256r, 263r (x 2), 272r, 277v, 287v, 294v, 295r, 299r, 302v, 305r, 306r, 307r, 308r, 308v, 309v, 310r, 310v, 311r (x 2), 312r, 314v, 323v, 324v, 325r, 326r, 326v, 327r (x 2), 327v. 3 initials in colours with foliate motifs (ff. 100r, 247r, 263r). Initials in red with blue pen-flourishing or in blue with red pen-flourishing. Plain initials in red or blue. Running headers in red and blue. Rubrics in red. A fragment of parchment with the beginning of Jerome's preface and a historiated initial is pasted onto f. 1v.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002049904

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 4067 : Bible, including Jerome’s preface, and Interpretationes Hebraicorum nominum

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[4060]/040-002049904

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:

1250

End Date:

1299

Date Range:

2nd half of the 13th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment.

Dimensions: 185 x 125 mm (text space: 120 x 80 mm).

Foliation: ff. 356 (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning + 1 at the end).

Script: Gothic.

Binding: Post-1600. Mottled brown leather with gold tooling.

Condition: Many leaves have cuts in the margins.

Custodial History:

Origin:

France.

Provenance:

Roger Foley (d. 1764), rector of Great Witley, Worcestershire in 1720: inscribed, 'R. Foley 1712' (f. 2).

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.

Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), no. 4067.

Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), p. 154.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)