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Harley MS 4747

Record Id:

040-002050590

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002050590

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x000109

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 4747

Title:

Gospels

Scope & Content:

The manuscript includes:

ff. 1r-2v: Calendar for the use of Coldingham priory, fragment: July-October (early 13th century).

ff. 3r-58r: Four Gospels, with marginal Ammonian sections.

Decoration:

Large puzzle initials in red and blue, with foliate decoration in green, yellow and brown, at the beginning of prologues and chapters (ff. 3r, 4v, 19v, 29r, 45v). Small initials in red or blue.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002050590

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 4747 : Gospels

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[4746]/040-002050590

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Parchment codex.

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1200

End Date:

1249

Date Range:

1st half of the 13th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: ff. 1r-2v: 285 x 190 mm (text space: 210 x 140 mm); ff. 3r-58v: 305 x 200 mm (text space: 210 x 140 mm).

Foliation: ff. 58 (+ 2 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves: 1 at the beginning and 1 at the end; + 1 unfoliated parchment leaf after f. 58).

Script: Gothic; ff. 1r-2v: written above top line; ff. 3r-58v: written below top line

Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house binding; Rebound in 1947. Imprint of metal studs of a medieval binding on f. 58 and final end leaf.

Custodial History:

Origin: England (Durham?).

Provenance:

The Benedictine priory of St Mary, Coldingham, co Berwick, a cell of the Benedictine cathedral priory, Durham: evidence of the calendar, including the obit of its prior, Herbert, and the translation of Cuthbert (ff. 1v, 2r) (see Holmes 2011).

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.

Administrative Context:

England (Durham?).

Information About Copies:

Select digital coverage available for this manuscript, see Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/welcome.htm.

Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-1812), III (1808), no. 4747.

H. H. Glunz, History of the Vulgate in England from Alcuin to Roger Bacon (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1933), no. 65.

Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books, ed. by N. R. Ker, 2nd edn, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 3 (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), p. 53.

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. 108.

Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books ed. by N. R. Ker, Supplement to the Second Edition, ed. by Andrew G. Watson, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 15 (London: The Royal Historical Society, 1987), p. 31.

Stephen Mark Holmes, ‘Catalogue of Liturgical Books and Fragments in Scotland before 1650’, The Innes Review, 62 (2011), 127–212 (no. 27).

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Benedictine priory, Coldingham, Berwickshire, cell of Cathedral priory, Durham, c 1098-1606
Bentinck, Margaret Cavendish, duchess of Portland, née Harley, collector of art and natural history specimens and patron of arts and sciences, 11 Feb 1715-17 Jul 1785,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000115857160,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/2356861
Harley, Edward, second earl of Oxford and Mortimer, book collector and patron of the arts, 2 Jun 1689-16 Jun 1741,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000108078249,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/160524259
Harley, Henrietta Cavendish, Countess of Oxford and Mortimer, née Holles, patron of architecture, 4 Feb 1694-9 Dec 1755,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000030125833,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/6045563
Harley, Robert, first Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, 5 Dec 1661-21 May 1724,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000083423906