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Harley MS 4092
- Record Id:
- 040-002049929
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002049929
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000807.0x00025c
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 4092
- Title:
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Prudentius, Psychomachia (imperfect); Sedulius, Carmen Paschale; Sedulius, Elegia; Sedulius, Hymnus; Acrostic poem attributed to Liberatus, Liberii acrotichis de Sedulio; Bernardus Morlanensis, De contemptu mundi; Hymn beginning Qui sua dat cunctis; Boethius De consolation philosophie.
- Scope & Content:
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Codex composed of three parts.
Leaves lost before f. 1.ff. 4-5 and 151-157 apparently replaced in the 13th or 14th century.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002049929", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 4092: Prudentius, Psychomachia (imperfect); Sedulius, Carmen Paschale; Sedulius, Elegia; Sedulius, Hymnus; Acrostic poem attributed to…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "041-003314243", "parent" : "040-002049929", "text" : "Harley MS 4092 ff. 39-86v: Bernardus Morlanensis, De contemptu mundi; Hymn beginning: Qui sua dat cunctis." },{ "id" : "041-003314244", "parent" : "040-002049929", "text" : "Harley MS 4092 ff. 87-157v: Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae." }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002049929 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 4092 : Prudentius, Psychomachia (imperfect); Sedulius, Carmen Paschale; Sedulius, Elegia; Sedulius, Hymnus; Acrostic poem attributed… - Contains:
- Harley MS 4092 ff. 39-86v : Bernardus Morlanensis, De contemptu mundi; Hymn beginning: Qui sua dat cunctis.
Harley MS 4092 ff. 87-157v : Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae.
Click here to View / search full list of parts of Harley MS 4092 - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[4085]/040-002049929
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- A parchment codex, 158 folios.
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1100
- End Date:
- 1149
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: parchment.
Foliation: ff. 158 (+ 5 paper flyleaves at the beginning and 4 at the end; f. 158 is a lifted paste-down).
Script: Protogothic.
Binding: BM/BL in-house. Rebound in 1978; traces of the wooden boards of a previous binding (f. 158).
- Custodial History:
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Provenance:
Added, annotations and pen trials, mainly of the end of the 14th century: (ff. 38r-v and throughout ff. 87r-157v).
Added, 14th century: list of contents (f. 158) suggesting that by this date at least parts 1 and 3 were bound together and that part 1 was preceded by Prosper of Aquitaine's Epigrammata.
Samuel Knott (d. 1687), rector of Combe Raleigh in Devon (1661-1668), antiquary and collector of manuscripts: added notes (see Wright 1972).
Robert Burscough (b. 1650/51, d.1709), prebendary of Exeter in 1701, archdeacon of Barnstaple in 1703, rector of Cheriton Bishop in 1705; sold by his widow on 17 May 1715 to Robert Harley, along with other manuscripts (see Diary 1966).
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 ‘17 Maij 1715’ (f. 1). Humfrey Wanley added 'Coelius Sedulius natione Scotus, i.e. Hibernus, claruit circa A. D. 430' (f. 3).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:
- Select digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/welcome.htm.
- Publications:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: [n. pub.], 1808-12), III, no. 4092.
C. D'Evelyn, 'A Lost Manuscript pf the "De Contemptu Mundi"', Speculum 6 (1931), 132-33 (pp. 132-33).
The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by C. E. Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), I: 1715-1723, p. 11 n. 6.
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. 88, 211.
Codices Boethiani : A Conspectus of Manuscripts of the Works of Boethius ed. by M. T. Gibson and Lesley Smith, Warburg Institute Surveys and Texts 25 (London: Warburg Institute, 1995- ), I: Great Britain and the Republic of Ireland, no. 130, pp. 149-50.
Carl P. E. Springer, The Manuscripts of Sedulius: A Provisional Handlist, Transaction of the American Philosophical Society, 85 (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1995), p. 64.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)