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Harley MS 5373

Record Id:

040-002051219

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002051219

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x00037e

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 5373

Title:

Gaius Julius Solinus, Collectanea rerum memorabilium; Rorgo Fretellus, Liber locorum sanctorum terrae Jerusalem

Scope & Content:

This composite manuscript consists of two parts. The first part (ff. 1-53) was written in the 12th century (before c. 1175); the second part (ff. 53-59) was written during the 13th century.

Contents:

ff. 1r-53r: Gaius Julius Solinus, Collectanea rerum memorabilium.

ff. 53v-59v: Rorgo Fretellus, Liber locorum sanctorum terrae Jerusalem; followed by an explicit: 'Scripto completo consul Rodice valeto / Quod tibi praesentat genuit quem Pontica tellus / Archidiaconus Antiochenus rogo Fretellus’.

f. 59v: Poems, including part of Hieronymus de Vallibus, Epitaphium Salvatoris quod est fixum ad sacrum sepulchrum in Hierusalem.

The manuscript contains a later addition:

f. 26v: An inscription in Greek, added in the 17th century.

Decoration:

Small red initials, 1 with penwork decoration in brown ink (f. 1r) and some with arabesque motifs, throughout the manuscript. Red line-fillers. Manicules in brown ink and human faces (ff. 55r, 57r, 57v) added to margins.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002051219

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 5373 : Gaius Julius Solinus, Collectanea rerum memorabilium; Rorgo Fretellus, Liber locorum sanctorum terrae Jerusalem

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[5375]/040-002051219

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:

1100

End Date:

1299

Date Range:

12th century-13th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 210 x 135 mm.

Foliation: ff. 59 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end); each quire has been mounted onto a paper guard.

Script: Gothic.

Binding: British Museum in-house; re-bound on 17 April 1967.

Custodial History:

Origin:

? England or France.

Provenance:

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), I (1808), p. 263.

David Paniagua, 'An Inventory of the Manuscripts of Julius Solinus', Scriptorium, 73 (2019), 101-25 (p. 109).

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Fretellus, Rorgo, Archdeacon of Antioch, fl 12th century,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000118841156
Julius Solinus, Gaius, fl 3rd century ,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000083818625,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/51672454

Places:

England
France