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Harley MS 4831
- Record Id:
- 040-002050674
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002050674
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x00015d
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100056057046.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 4831
- Title:
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Paulinus of Nola, Letters and Poems
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
This manuscript consists of a collection of works written by Paulinus of Nola (d. 431), including letters, Carmina varia (poems) and the first ten Natalicia (a collection of poems dedicated to anniversary of St Felix of Nola).
The numbers following the prose-epistles, which have not been edited in Dolveck (2015) are those of the Hartel's edition: Sancti Pontii Meropii Paulini Nolani Epistulae, ed. by Wilhelm von Hartel (Vienna: F. Tempsky, 1894).
ff. 1-57v: Ad Severum (Epistles to Severus), epistles 5, 24, 23, 11, 1, 22, 30, 28, 29, 31.
ff. 57v-65v: Ad Delphinum (Epistles to Delphinus), epistles 10, 20, 19, 14, 35.
ff. 65v-78v: Ad Amandum (Epistles to Amandus), epistles 36, 12, 9, 2, 21, 15.
ff. 78v-86r: Ad Victricium (Epistles to Victricius), epistles 37, 18.
ff. 86r-97v: Ad Aprum (Epistles to Aper), epistles 38, 39, 44.
ff. 97v-99v: Ad Florentinum (Epistle to Florentinus), epistle 42.
ff. 99v-100r: Ad Alethium (Epistle to Alethius), epistle 33.
ff. 100r-107r: Ad Pammachium (Epistle to Pammachius), epistle 132.
ff. 107r-111r: De gazophylacio, perhaps addressed to Alethius, epistle 34.
ff. 111r-114r: Ad Desiderium (Epistle to Desiderius), epistle 43.
ff. 114r-126r: Ad Severum de basilicarum dispositione (Epistle to Severus on basilicas), epistle 32.
ff. 126r-131r: Ad Jovium (Epistle to Jovius), epistle 16.
ff. 131r-134v: Ad Jovium versus (Epistle to Jovius in verse) (Dolveck, Paulini Nolini Carmina (2015), pp. 556-72).
ff. 134v-136r: Ausonius, Ad Paulinum (Epistle to Paulinus from Ausonius) (Dolveck (2015), pp. 521-25), beginning: 'Quarta tibi haec notos detexit epistola questus').
ff. 136r-137v: Paulinus of Nola, Ad Ausonium (Epistle to Ausonius) (Dolveck (2015), pp. 530-33).
ff. 137v-138r: Ausonius, Ad Paulinum (Epistle to Paulinus of Nola from Ausonius) (Dolveck (2015), pp. 526-28), beginning: 'Proxima quae nostrae fuerat querimonia chartae'.
ff. 138r-139r: Paulinus of Nola, Ad Ausonium (Epistle to Ausonius) (Dolveck (2015), pp. 552-55).
ff. 139r-139v: Ausonius, Ad Paulinum (Epistle to Paulinus of Nola from Ausonius) (Dolveck (2015), pp. 544-45), beginning: 'Discutimus, Pauline'.
ff. 139v-143r: Paulinus of Nola, Ad Ausonium (Epistle to Ausonius) (Dolveck (2015), pp. 534-43).
ff. 143r-160r: Paulinus of Nola, Ad Cytherium (Epistle to Cytherius) (Dolveck (2015), pp. 573-605).
ff. 160r-178v: Natalicia I-VI.167, VII.1-120, X.269-325. (Dolveck (2015), pp. 293-21).
ff. 178v-189v: De obitu Celsi (On the death of Celsius) (Dolveck (2015), pp. 606-28).
ff. 189v-195v: Ad Nicetam (Dolveck (2015), pp. 629-43).
ff. 195v-196v: Psalmus 136 (Dolveck (2015), pp. 644-46).
ff. 196v-197v: Psalmus 1 (Dolveck (2015), pp. 647-49).
ff. 197v-198v: Psalmus 2 (Dolveck (2015), pp. 650-51).
ff. 198v-203r: Natalicium VI.168-468 (Dolveck (2015), pp. 341-352).
ff. 203r-208r: Ad Macharium (Epistle to Macharius), epistle 49.
ff. 208r-209v: Ad Pammachium (Epistle to Pammachius), epistle 131, imperfect at the end.
Decoration:
Large initials in brown ink.
Rubrics in red.
13th-century quire signatures in Roman numerals.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- England and France 700-1200 Project
Harley Collection - Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002050674", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 4831: Paulinus of Nola, Letters and Poems" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002050674 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 4831 : Paulinus of Nola, Letters and Poems - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[4830]/040-002050674
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- A parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100056057046.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0825
- End Date:
- 0849
- Date Range:
- 1st or 2nd quarter of the 9th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 300 x 210 mm (text space: 250 x 135/70 mm).
Collation: i-iii8 (ff. 1-24), iiibis (ff. 25-26), iv-x8 (ff. 27-82), xi6 (ff 83-88), xii-xvii8,(ff. 89-136), xviii8 (the 8th leaf is a singleton), xix-xxii8 (ff. 146-177), xxiii10 (ff. 178-187), xxiv6 (ff. 188-193), xxv-xxvi8 (ff. 193-209).
Foliation: ff. 209 (+ 2 unfoliated parchment flyleaves at the beginning + at the end).
Script: Caroline minuscule, several scribes, from the same scriptorium, according to Dolveck, Paulini Nolani Carmina (2015).
Binding: Post-1600. Green suede; leaves from a late 13th-century or early 14th-century manuscript reused as endpapers containing Augustine's De Trinitate (XIII. 4-6 at the beginning and XIV.8-10 at the end).
- Custodial History:
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Origin: ?St-Denis, Ile-de-France.
Perhaps produced in the scriptorium of the Benedictine abbey of St-Denis, according to Nebbiai-Della Guarda, La Bibliothèque de l'abbaye de St Denis (1985).
Provenance:
The Benedictine abbey of St.-Denis, Paris: 13th-century press-mark 'LB+' and ownership inscription (cut out) 'Iste liber...' (f. 1r); a 15th-century press-mark 'xvi.iiiiclxxi' (see Nebbiai-Della Guarda, La Bibliothèque de l'abbaye de St Denis (1985)); added 13th-century catchwords and quire signatures (e. g., ff. 24v, 26v).
Added, 17th-century notes for collation and corrections, the same hand also notes lacunae (ff. 19r, 58v, 175v, 198r, 197r, 203r).
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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- 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. 4831.
Wilhelm Hartel, Sancti Pontii Meropii Paulini Nolani Epistulae, (Vindobonae, 1894) [on the text].
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. 292.
Donatella Nebbiai-Dalla Guarda, La bibliothèque de l'Abbaye de Saint-Denis en France du IXe au XVIIIe siècle, Documents, études et répertoires, Institut de recherche et d'histoire des textes (Paris: CNRS, 1985), pp. 103, 190, 261, 272, 287, 379, 381.
Bernhard Bischoff, Katalog der festländischen Handschriften des neunten Jahrhunderts (mit Ausnahme der wisigotischen), aus dem Nachlaß herausgegeben von Birgit Ebersperger (Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für die Herausgabe der Mittelalterlichen Bibliothekskataloge Deutschlands und der Schweiz / Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften). Teil 2: Laon – Paderborn. (Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2004), 122 (no. 2482).
Franz Dolveck, Paulini Nolani Carmina, Corpus Christianorum, Series Latina, 21 (Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2015), pp. 40-42, 69-73 (for the manuscript, numbered 'J' in the edition) [edition of the poems and versified letters].
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Notes:
- This manuscript is part of The Polonsky Foundation England and France Project: Manuscripts from the British Library and the Bibliothèque nationale de France, 700-1200.