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Harley MS 4952
- Record Id:
- 040-002050796
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002050796
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x0001d7
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 4952
- Title:
- A martyrology for the period from 6 August to 6 February; Passion of St Catherine of Alexandria
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-167r: A martyrology for the period from 6 August to 6 February.
ff. 168r-171v: Passion of St Catherine of Alexandria.
Decoration:
1 large initial with foliate motifs in silver, blue, mauve, green, red and beige (f. 18v). 1 large initial with foliate motifs and a clasp on a coloured ground (f. 1v). Numerous large and smaller initials in red or in beige, frequently with elaborate penwork decoration and occasionally with reserved designs. Simple initials in red (f. 1r). Rubrics in red. Simple line fillers in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002050796", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 4952: A martyrology for the period from 6 August to 6 February; Passion of St Catherine of Alexandria" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002050796 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 4952 : A martyrology for the period from 6 August to 6 February; Passion of St Catherine of Alexandria - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[4952]/040-002050796
- 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:
- 1174
- Date Range:
- 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 360 x 260 mm (written space: 310 x 210 mm), apart from ff. 168-171v: 300 x 200 mm (written space: 220 x 135), both in 2 columns.
Foliation: ff. vi + 171 (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + at the end).
Script: Protogothic.
Binding: BM/BL in-house. Rebound in 1968.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: France, S. (Fontfroide?).
Provenance:
The Benedictine abbey of Fontfroide near Narbonne, Cistercian from 1145: Inscribed, 2nd half of the 13th century 'Liber beate Marie fontis frigidi', 'Liber beate marie' (f. 167r) (see Bell 1995); Passionaria are mentioned twice in surviving records on manuscripts of the abbey: among the books given by Fontfroide to its daughter-house Valbonne, in 1242 (Bell 1995, B45: 'item librum passionarii in prima parte & secunda'), and in the list of books in the 'armarium ecclesiae', 1244 (Bell 1995, C16: 'Duo passionaria').
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:
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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. 4952.
C. E. Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), p. 154.
Anne Bondeelle-Souchier, Bibliothèques cisterciennes dans la France médiévale (Paris: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 1991), p. 113.
David N. Bell, 'Fons Sapientiae: A Study of the Book Collection of the Abbey of Fontfroide from the Twelfth Century to the Fifteenth', Citeaux, 1-2 (1995), 77-109 (p. 99).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- France