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Harley MS 4911
- Record Id:
- 040-002050755
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002050755
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x0001ae
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 4911
- Title:
- Haimo of Auxerre, Commentary on Revelation
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-159v: Haimo of Auxerre, Commentary on Revelation.
The manuscript contains later additions:
Marginal 15th-century notes throughout the manuscript (especially ff. 99r-100r).
ff. 56r-56v: Theological tract using the seven strings of the harp of David as a metaphor for the Cross of Christ, beginning: 'Cithara ergo Christi est crux'; added in the 15th century.
Decoration:
6 large initials in red and blue, one with light brown, with penwork decoration and reserved designs including dotted lines (ff. 1r, 1v, 83r, 99r, 108v, 127r). Numerous large and small initials in blue, red, light brown or yellow (f. 40r) with some penwork decoration, occasionally in one of the alternate colours. Rubrics in blue, red, brown or yellow. Faces and manicules added in black ink to margins (see 19r, 27v, 49r, 66v, 129r).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002050755", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 4911: Haimo of Auxerre, Commentary on Revelation" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002050755 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 4911 : Haimo of Auxerre, Commentary on Revelation - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[4911]/040-002050755
- 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:
- 1150
- End Date:
- 1199
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 290 x 200 mm (text space: 210 x 140 mm).
Foliation: ff. 159 (+ 1 paper flyleaf at the beginning and 2 paper flyleaves at the end); 1 unfoliated parchment stub after ff, 59, 62, 69, 115, 117; 2 unfoliated paper strips (binding materials) between f. 49 and f. 50; and 1 larger paper strip foliated as f. 56.
Collation: Indicated by quire numbers and catchwords.
Script: Protogothic.
Binding: British Museum in-house; gold-tooled brown leather with the initials 'M.B.' (Museum Brittanicum) gold stamped on the upper cover.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
France (? Toulouse).
Provenance:
Toulouse Cathedral, owned in the 14th/15th century: its faded ownership inscription in a late medieval script, previously unnoticed and untranscribed, in the upper margin of f. 159v: 'Iste liber est […] canonici ecclesie Tholosane'.
Unknown 17th century owner: perhaps their inscription on 159r (lower margin): 'Lapocalip[se] Par. St. [? Brune]'.
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, no. 4911.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Haimo of Auxerre, member of the Benedictine Abbey of Saint-Germain d'Auxerre, d c 855,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000072679172,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/79148266 - Places:
- France
Toulouse, France