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Harley MS 4719
- Record Id:
- 040-002050562
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002050562
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x0000ed
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 4719
- Title:
- Hagiographies
- Scope & Content:
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A collection of hagiographies, mostly of early saints, particularly those of Egypt and the Middle East.
Contents:
f. 1r: doodles of faces and erased ownership inscriptions.
ff. 1v-2r: table of contents.
ff. 3r-39v: Vitae monachorum aegyptiorum (Lives of the Egyptian Monks).
ff. 40r-65v: Palladius, Lausiac History.
ff. 66r-79v: Hagiographies attributed to St Ephrem.
ff. 80r-111v: Liber doctrine seu institutionis sanctorum patrum (Book of the Teachings or Institutions of the Holy Fathers).
ff. 111v-125r: Hagiographies.
ff. 125r-142v: Hagiographies of female saints.
ff. 143r-150v: Leontios of Neapolis, Life of St John the Merciful, imperfect, missing leaves at the end.
ff. 151r-152v: Extracts from Daniel 13 and St Paul’s Epistles, imperfect, missing leaves at the beginning and end.
Decoration:
Large initial in red and green with a zoomorphic motif (f. 141v). Large initials in colours with foliate motifs (early white vine style). Large initials in red. Rubrics in red. Capitals marked in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002050562", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 4719: Hagiographies" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002050562 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 4719 : Hagiographies - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[4718]/040-002050562
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1100
- End Date:
- 1124
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 385 x 250 mm (text space: 305 x 190 mm).
Foliation: ff. 152 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end).
Script: Protogothic.
Binding: Post-1600. British Museum in-house; marbled endpapers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Italy.
Provenance:
John Gibson (fl. 1720-1726), dealer; sold to Harley on 22 June 1726 (see Diary 1966; Wright 1972).
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 ‘22 die mensis Junij, A.D. 1726’ (f. 1r).
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:
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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. 4719.
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 (1893), p. 598.
Wilhelm Levison, 'Eine Bearbeitung des 10. Bonifaz-Briefe,' Neues Archiv der Gesellschaft für ältere deutsche Geschictskunde, 32 (1907), 380-85 (p. 383 n. 3).
The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by Cyril Ernest Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), II: 1723-1726, p. 337 n. 2.
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. 162.
Latin Learning and English Lore: Studies in Anglo-Saxon Literature for Michael Lapidge, ed. by Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe, and Andy Orchard (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005), pp. 201-13 (p. 210).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)