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Harley MS 5251
- Record Id:
- 040-002051095
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002051095
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x000302
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100056057761.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 5251
- Title:
- Pseudo-Fredegarius Scholasticus, Chronicon
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript consists of the Chronicon (Chronicle),attributed to 'Fredegarius Scholasticus' in the 16th century; however, it is a compilation of several chronicles written by different 7th-century writers. The chronicleis composed of 4 books, which include the Liber generationis (Book of generations), a chronicle attributed to Hippolytus of Rome (b. 170, d. 235), and several extracts from chronicles attributed to Eusebius of Caesarea (b. c. 260, d. 339), and St Jerome (b. c. 347, d. 420). It also includes an abridgement of the Historia Francorum (History of the Franks) by Gregory of Tours (b. 538/9, d. 594). Each part of the chronicle is preceded by capitula.
Bern, Burgerbibliothek, MS 318, a late ninth-century manuscript from Reims, is a copy of Harley MS 5251.
Contents:
ff. 1r-93v: Pseudo-Fredegarius Scholasticus, Chronicon, beginning with the Liber de generationis, preceded by capitula (ff. 1r-v): 'Dinumeratio temporum et annorum a generatione saeculi usque in hunc diem', ending: 'Ego cum istis non loquor vita illorum'.
f. 93v: A charm for staunching blood, invoking the names of God and referring the apocryphal stories of the Jordan (becoming static at Christ's baptism) and Longinus (wounding Christ with a lance, who then stops the bleeding), beginning '+ Pater noster . Adiuro te sanguis . per patrem + et filum + et spiritum sanctum + . et per Beatam Mariam matrem domini nostri ihesu Christe per VIIIJ ordines angelorum et per intercessionem omnium sanctorum dei', added by a late 11th-century or early 12th-century scribe.
f. 93v: Priscian (fl. 500), Institutio de nomine et pronomine et verbo (Instruction on the Noun, Pronoun and Verb)of Priscian (fl. 500), imperfect: contains only the incipit of the grammatical treatise, added by a late 11th-century or early 12th-century scribe.
Decoration:
Initials in colours (oxidised) with penwork decoration. Initials in brown ink. Display script in red. Capitals marked in red.
- 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
040-002051095 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 5251 : Pseudo-Fredegarius Scholasticus, Chronicon - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[5251]/040-002051095
- 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_100056057761.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0875
- End Date:
- 0899
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 9th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 200 x 160 mm (text space 155 x 125 mm).
Foliation: ff. 92 (+ 1 unfoliated parchment leaf at the beginning + at the end)
Script: Caroline minuscule.
Binding: Post-1600. White leather over pasteboard.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: ? Southern France.
Provenance:
? A workshop in Southern France: perhaps produced in Aquitaine, as suggested by the 10th- and 11th-century neumes on f. 35v (see Bischoff, Katalog (2004)).
An unknown late 11th- or early 12th-century owner: added a charm and incipit of a grammatical treatise in an 11th- or 12th-century script (f. 92v).
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. 5251.
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, pp. 84-85.
Wilhelm Köhler, 'Die Karolingishen Miniaturen', in Zweiter Bericht über die Denkmäler Deutscher Kunst (Berlin: Reimer, 1912), pp. 52-77 (p. 58).
John Michael Wallace-Hadrill, The Fourth Book of the Chronicle of Fredegar with its Continuations (London: Thomas Nelson, 1960), p. l.
Bernhard Lambert, Bibliotheca Hieronymiana manuscripta: La tradition manuscrite des œuvres de Saint Jérôme, Instrumenta Patristica, 4:2 (Steenbrugge: Abbey of St Peter, 1969), p. 203.
Bernhard Bischoff, Katalog der festländischen Handschriften des neunten Jahrhunderts, 3 vols (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1998-2014), II (2004): Laon-Paderborn, ed. by Birgit Ebersperger, p. 123.
Roger Collins, Die Fredegar-Chroniken, Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Studien und Texte, 44 (Hannover: Hahn, 2007), pp. 63-65.
Helmut Reimitz, History, Frankish Identity and the Framing of Western Ethnicity, 550-850 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015), p. 238.
- 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.