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Harley MS 5273
- Record Id:
- 040-002051118
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002051118
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x000319
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 5273
- Title:
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Book of Job, glossed
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 3r-99r: The Book of Job, glossed.
The manuscript contains several later additions:
f. 1r: An English note: ‘This Book belong’d to the Abbey of Rival or Rievaux in the County of York. Which Abbey of Cistertians was founded in the Year 1132. There ys a Book mention’d in Capleys Catalogue of the Royal Library p. 107 which belonged to the same Abbey’; added in the 17th century.
f. 2r: A verse from the Distichs of Cato (Catonis Disticha) by Dionysius Cato: ‘Cum tibi sunt nati nec opes, tunc artibus illis [sic] : instrue, quo possint inopem defendere vitam’; added in the 14th century.
f. 99r: A Latin text added to the Book of Job, added by William Harland in the 16th century.
f. 99v: A quotation of Job 10:20-21, beginning: 'dimitte ergo me, ut plangam paululum dolorem meum'; signed ‘per me [...]’; added in the 16th century.
Decoration:
1 large initial in blue, yellow, and green with blue, red, and green penwork decoration (f. 3r). 1 large initial in green with yellow and green penwork decoration in the bowl of the letter (f. 75r). Large and small simple initials in green, yellow, red, or blue. The words in the first rubric in alternating colours of blue, red and green. Small simple initials in brown. On the lower half of f. 99v a series of six concentric circles with a six-cornered knot inside it has been added in brown ink.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002051118", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 5273: Book of Job, glossed" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002051118 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 5273 : Book of Job, glossed - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[5274]/040-002051118
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1150
- End Date:
- 1174
- Date Range:
- 3rd quarter of the 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 245 x 170 mm (text space: 190 x 145 mm).
Foliation: ff. 99 (+ 3 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end); ff 1-2 are parchment leaves that originally served as flyleaves; each quire has been mounted onto a paper guard.
Collation: i-xii8 [ff. 3-98]; xiii one [f. 99].
Script: Protogothic.
Binding: British Museum in-house. Rebound on 27 October 1965.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Northern England.
Provenance:
The Cistercian abbey of St Mary, Rievaulx, Yorkshire: its possibly contemporaneous ownership inscription on f. 2v: 'Liber Sancte Mariae Rievall[ens]is'; and 13th-century inscription on f. 3r: 'liber sancte marie Ryevall[ens]is'; listed as P 191 or P 192 in its late 12th-century catalogue (see Bell, The Libraries (1992), p. 117).
? ‘Gregorius bery [dan]’, (?) 16th century: his name inscribed on a strip of parchment pasted on f. 2r (not in Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)).
? Isabel Elslake [Elslack], (?) 16th century: her name inscribed on a parchment pastedown on f. 2r: ‘Ezabell Elslake’; Elslack is a village in the parish of Craven, North Yorkshire (not in Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)
Ralph Harland, 16th century: added ‘Cato’ to the verse from the Distichs of Cato on f. 2r, followed by his ownership inscription: ‘per me Radulphu[m] harland est verus possessor’; also inscribed his name on f. 33v: ‘hyme Rayffe harland aw this bouke [aw this bouke] Amen so be’; perhaps also added the Latin quotation of Job 10:20-21 on f. 99v (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 179).
William Herlande [Harlande] of ‘Rechebroughe’, 2nd half of the 16th century: his name written on ff. 33r: ‘Wyll[ia]m Harlande for me’; and in the added text on 99r: ‘per me gulielmum herlande de rechbroughe’ and ‘by me Wyll[ia]m harlande of Rechebroughe’; and ending: ‘god save the quene’ (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 188)
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), p. 257.
Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books, ed. by N. R. Ker, 2nd edn, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 3 (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), p. 159.
Anne Lawrence, ‘English Cistercian Manuscripts of the Twelfth Century’, in Cistercian Art and Architecture in the British Isles, ed. by Christopher Norton and David Park (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986), pp. 284-98 (p. 291).
Anne Lawrence-Mathers, Manuscripts in Northumbria in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries (Woodbridge: Brewer, 2003), pp. 208 n, 210, fig. 72.
The Libraries of the Cistercians, Gilbertines and Premonstratensians, ed. by David N. Bell, Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 3 (London, 1992), p. 117.
Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 179, 188, 286.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Cato, Dionysius, 3rd century-4th century,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000079749401,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/49256470 - Places:
- Rievaulx, England