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Harley MS 4980
- Record Id:
- 040-002050824
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002050824
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x0001f3
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100059910360.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 4980
- Title:
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Augustine, Fragment from De civitate Dei; Bede, Expositio actuum apostolorum; De fide Sanctae Trinitatis et de incarnatione Christi and other Alcuin's works
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript consists of three parts of different origin and period, perhaps bound together in the 13th century in Carcassone, according to Knibbs and Matter, Alcuini (2012).
Laistner, 'The Spanish Archetype of MS Harley 4980' (1936) argues that 'textual and orthographic peculiarities' in this copy of Bede's Commentary on Acts are due to a Visigothic exemplar.
The first part (ff. 1r-2v) was produced in Corbie in the late 8th century. The 2nd part (ff. 3r-75v) containing Bede's treatise was written in south of France in the 2nd half of the 9th century. The last part (ff. 76r-143v) was composed around Tours in the 1st half of the 9th century.
Contents:
ff. 1r–2v: St Augustine, Fragment of De civitate Dei (The City of God).
ff. 3r–75v: Bede, Expositio actuum apostolorum.
ff. 76r–143v: Alcuin, De fide Sanctae Trinitatis et de incarnatione Christi; Alcuin, Invocatio ad Sanctam Trinitatem; Alcuin, Questiones de Sancta Trinitate; Alcuin, De animae ratione: liber ad Eulaliam virginem.
Decoration:
See separate parts.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- England and France 700-1200 Project
Harley Collection - Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002050824 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 4980 : Augustine, Fragment from De civitate Dei; Bede, Expositio actuum apostolorum; De fide Sanctae Trinitatis et de incarnatione… - Contains:
- Harley MS 4980, ff 1-2v : Fragment from Augustine, De civitate Dei
Harley MS 4980, ff 3-75 : Bede, Expositio actuum apostolorum
Harley MS 4980, ff 76-143 : Alcuin, De fide Sanctae Trinitatis et de incarnatione Christi; Invocatio ad Sanctam Trinitatem; Questiones de…
Click here to View / search full list of parts of Harley MS 4980 - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[4980]/040-002050824
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- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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A parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100059910360.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0700
- End Date:
- 0899
- Date Range:
- 8th century-9th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 250 × 185 mm (text space: 190 × 140 mm).
Foliation: ff. 143 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + at the end). At f. 2v, a quire signature, ‘VII’.
Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house. Rebound in 1964.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: France.
Provenance:
The cathedral church of St Nazaire, Carcassone: its 13th-century ownership inscription, ‘Iste liber est ecclesie sancti Nazarii Carcassonnensis. Quicumque eum furatus fuerit vel alienaverit vel hunc titulum deleverit, anathema sit’ (f. 3r).
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. 4980.
[E. Maunde Thompson and G. F. Warner], Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts in the British Museum, 2 vols (London: British Museum, 1881-1884), Part II, Latin, p. 52.
Wilhelm Köhler, 'Die Karolingishen Miniaturen', in Zweiter Bericht über die Denkmäler Deutscher Kunst (Berlin: Reimer, 1912), pp. 52-77 (p. 58).
Dom A. Wilmart, 'Un nouveau temoin de l'écriture ab de Corbie,' Revue Bénédictine, 42 (1930), 270-27.
Codices Latini Antiquiores, ed. by E. A. Lowe, 11 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1934-1966), II: Great Britain and Ireland (1935), no. 201.
M. L. W. Laistner, 'The Spanish Archetype of MS Harley 4980 (Bede's Exposition of Acts)', Journal of Theological Studies, 37 (1936), 132-37.
Leslie Webber Jones, 'The Scriptorium at Corbie: II. The Script and the Problems', Speculum, 22:3 (1947), 375-94 (p. 379).
Patrick McGurk, 'Citation Marks in Early Latin Manuscripts', Scriptorium: Revue internationale des Études relatives aux manuscrits, 15 (1961), 3-13 (p. 10) [on ff. 1-2].
H. Rochais, 'Fragments du "De civitate Dei": Bibliothèque de l'Institut Catholique de Paris (ms latin 55, VIes.)', Revue des Études Augustiniennes, 17 (1971), 293-98.
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. 96.
Pierre Salmon, 'Livrets de prières de l'epoque carolingienne', Revue bénédictine, 86 (1976), 218-34.
David Ganz, Corbie in the Carolingian Renaissance, Beihefte der Francia, 20 (Sigmaringen: Jan Thorbecke, 1990), p. 50.
E. Ann Matter, 'A Carolingian Schoolbook? The Manuscript Tradition of Alcuin's De Fide and Related Treatises', in The Whole Book: Cultural Perspectives on the Medieval Miscellany, ed. by Stephen Nichols and Siegfried Wenzel (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996), pp. 145-52.
Paul E. Szarmach, 'A Preface, Mainly Textual, to Alcuin's De Ratione Animae', The Man of Many Devices who Wandered Full Many Ways: Festschrift in honour of János M. Bak, ed. by Balázs Nagy and Marcell Sebok (Budapest: Central European University Press, 1999), pp. 397-408 (p. 404).
Berhard Bischoff, Katalog der festländischen Handschriften des neunten Jahrhunderts (mit Ausnahme der wisigotischen) (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1998-), II (2004): Laon-Paderborn, ed. by Birgit Ebersperger, p. 122 (no. 2486).
Alcuini Eboracensis: De Fide Sanctae Trinitatis et De Incarnatione Christi: Questiones de Sancta Trinitate, ed. by Eric Knibbs and E. Ann Matter, Corpus Christianorum: Continuatio Mediaevalis, 249 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2012), p. xxvi.
- 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.