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Harley MS 2798-2799
- Record Id:
- 040-002899105
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002899105
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x000044
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2798-2799
- Title:
- Bible ('The Arnstein Bible')
- Scope & Content:
-
Bible, known as 'The Arnstein Bible', formed of two volumes: Harley MS 2798 and Harley MS 2799.
For detailed descriptions see the individual entries for Harley MS 2798 and Harley MS 2799.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002899105", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 2798-2799: Bible ('The Arnstein Bible')" },{ "id" : "041-002899106", "parent" : "040-002899105", "text" : "Harley MS 2798: Bible ('The Arnstein Bible') (Genesis to Malachi)" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "041-002899108", "parent" : "040-002899105", "text" : "Harley MS 2799: Bible ('The Arnstein Bible') (Job to Revelation)" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002899105 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 2798-2799 : Bible ('The Arnstein Bible') - Contains:
- Harley MS 2798 : Bible ('The Arnstein Bible') (Genesis to Malachi)
Harley MS 2799 : Bible ('The Arnstein Bible') (Job to Revelation)
Click here to View / search full list of parts of Harley MS 2798-2799 - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[2799]/040-002899105
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Two parchment volumes
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1167
- End Date:
- 1177
- Date Range:
- c 1172
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Letter of introduction required to view this manuscript.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Germany, North-West (Arnstein).
Provenance:
The Premonstratensian abbey of St Mary and St Nicholas, Arnstein: inscription 'Liber sancte Marie sanctique Nycolai in Arrinstein' (f. 235v). The manuscript is also included in a late 12th-century list of the books of Arnstein Abbey, Harley MS 3045, ff. 47v-49r: 'Sunt etiam alia duo vetus et novum testamentum continentia et insuper tripartitum psalterium et annalia'. The manuscript was written by Lunandus, a monk of Arnstein Abbey, in 1172 or 1173: his name is recorded in the annals that were formerly part of this manuscript and are now in Darmstadt, Hessisches Landes- und Hochschlbibliothek, MS 4128: 'Hoc anno scriptus est liber iste a quodam fratre nostro nomine Lunandus' (see Watson, Dated and Datable Manuscripts (1997), p. 128, no. 704).
Nathaniel Noel (fl. 1681, d. c. 1753), bookseller, employed by Edward Harley for buying books and manuscripts chiefly on the Continent, where his agent was George Suttie (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), pp. 253-255, 322): sold to Robert Harley on 16 January 1720/21. For other manuscripts formerly owned by Arnstein Abbey in the Harley collection, and for a list of those among them acquired by or through Noel, see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 53.
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, inscribed as usual by their librarian, Humfrey Wanley ‘16 January 1720/21' (f. 1r).
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.
- Administrative Context:
- Germany, West (Arnstein).
- Information About Copies:
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Complete digital coverage available; see Digitised Manuscripts, http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/.
Select digital coverage available; see Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts, http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/welcome.htm.
- Publications:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-1812), II (1808), nos 2798 and 2799.
Walter de Gray Birch and Henry Jenner, Early Drawings and Illuminations: An Introduction to the Study of Illustrated Manuscripts (London: Bagster and Sons, 1879), p. 5.
A. Kohl, 'Arnsteiner Handschriften im Britischen Museum zu London', Nassovia: Zeitschrift für nassauische Geschichte und Heimatkunde, 4 (1903), 106-08, 120-21, 133-34 (p. 107).
J. A. Herbert, Illuminated Manuscripts (London: Methuen, 1911), pp. 154-55.
[Eric G. Millar], British Museum Reproductions from Illuminated Manuscripts, Series 4 (London: British Museum, 1928), pl. 12.
R. Schilling, 'Studien zur deutschen Goldschmiedekunst des 12. und 13. Jahrhunderts' in Form und Inhalt: Kunstgeschichtliche Studien, Otto Schmitt zum 60. Geburtstag am 13. Dezember 1950 dargebracht von seinen Freunden, ed. by Hans Wentzel (Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, [1950]), pp. 73-88 (pp. 74, 76-80; figs 2, 8).
Jacques Stiennon, ‘Du lectionnaire de Saint-Trond aux Evangiles d’Averbode: Contribution à l’étude de la miniature mosane du XIIe siècle’, Scriptorium: Revue internationale des études relative aux manuscrits, 7 (1953), 37-50 (pp. 45 n. 4, 48, 50).
Jacques Stiennon, ‘La miniature dans le diocese de Liège aux XIe et XIIe siècles’, in L’art Mosan, Bibliothèque Générale de L’École Pratique des Hautes Études, 6 (Paris: Armand Colin, 1953), 90-101 (pp. 98-100).
André Grabar and Carl Nordenfalk, Romanesque Painting from the Eleventh to the Thirteenth Century, trans. by Stuart Gilbert (Lausanne: SKIRA, 1958), pp. 143, 195.
François Masai, ‘Les manuscrits à peintures de Sambre et Meuse aux XI et XII siècles: Pour une critique plus méthodique’, Cahiers de civilisation medievale, 3 (1960), 168-89.
D. H. Turner, Romanesque Illuminated Manuscripts in the British Library (London: British Museum, 1966), pls IV, 9.
The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by Cyril Ernest Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), I: 1715-1723, pp. xlix, 81 n. 6.
C. R. Dodwell, Painting in Europe: 800 to 1200 (London : Penguin Books, 1971), p. 163.
Rhein und Maas: Kunst und Kultur 800-1400 (Cologne: Rudolf Müller, 1972), no. J48 [exhibition catalogue].
Herbert Köllner, ‘Ein Annalenfragment und die Datierung der Arnsteiner Bibel in London’, Scriptorium: Revue internationale des études relative aux manuscrits, 26 (1972), 34-50.
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. 53, 254, 322.
Die Zeit der Staufer (Stuttgart: Württembergisches Landesmuseum, 1977), pp. 533-35, no. 716 [exhibition catalogue].
Jonathon J. G. Alexander, The Decorated Letter (London: Braziller, 1978), p. 91, pl. 26.
Andrew G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c. 700-1600 in The Department of Manuscripts: The British Library, 2 vols (London: British Library, 1979), p. 128, no. 704.
Walter Cahn, Romanesque Bible Illumination (Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1982), pp. 26, 230, 253 no. 8, pls 157, 162 [with additional bibliography].
François Avril, 'Les arts de la couleur', in François Avril, Xavier Barral I Altet, and Danielle Gaborit-Chopin, Le Monde Roman 1060-1200, 2 vols (Paris: Gallimard, 1983), I: Le Temps des Croisades, pp. 131-225 (p. 207, pl. 194).
John E. Murdoch, Album of Science: Antiquity and the Middle Ages, ed. by I. B. Cohen (New York: Scribner's Sons, 1984), no. 207.
Bonifatius Fischer, Lateinische Bibelhandschriften im frühen Mittelalter, Vetus Latina, 11 (Freiburg: Herder, 1985), p. 56.
Sigrid Krämer, Handschriftenerbe des deutschen Mittelalters, Mittelalterliche Bibliothekskataloge Deutschlands und der Schweiz: Ergänzungsband 1, 3 vols (Munich, 1989-90), I (1989), p. 25.
Aliza Cohen-Mushlin, A Medieval Scriptorium: Sancta Maria Magdalena de Frankendal, Wolfenbütteler Mittelalter-Studien, 3, 2 vols (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1990), I, 105.
Aliza Cohen-Mushlin, 'The Twelfth-Century Scriptorium at Frankenthal', in Medieval Book Production: Assessing the Evidence, ed. by Linda L. Brownrigg, Proceedings of the Second Conference of The Seminar in the History of the Book to 1500, Oxford, July 1988 (Los Altos Hills, California: Anderson-Lovelace, 1990), pp. 85-101 (pp. 97, 101 n. 37).
Jonathan J. G. Alexander, Medieval Illuminators and their Methods of Work (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992), p. 39, fig. 58.
Peter Lasko, Ars Sacra 800-1200, 2nd edn (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994), p. 229.
Walter Cahn, Romanesque Manuscripts: The Twelfth Century, 2 vols (London: Harvey Miller, 1996), II, 179.
Janet Backhouse, The Illuminated Page: Ten Centuries of Manuscript Painting in the British Library (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997), no. 41.
Christopher de Hamel, The British Library Guide to Manuscript Illumination: History and Techniques (London: British Library, 2001), pl. 16.
Alixe Bovey, Monsters and Grotesques in Medieval Manuscripts (London: British Library, 2002), pp. 12, 15, pl. 9.
Jeffrey F. Hamburger, St. John the Divine: The Deified Evangelist in Medieval Art and Theology (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002), pp. 104-05.
Scot McKendrick and Kathleen Doyle, Bible Manuscripts: 1400 Years of Scribes and Scripture (London: British Library, 2007), pp. 10 and 95, fig. 82.
Jacqueline Leclercq-Marx, ‘Les avatars d’un mythe antique au moyen age thésée et le minotaure aux époques préromane et romane’, Les Cahiers de Saint-Michel de Cuxa, 39 (2008), 193-207 (p. 201, pl. 11).
Jeffrey M. Hamburger, 'The Hand of God and the Hand of the Scribe: Craft and Collaboration at Arnstein', in Die Bibliothek des Mittelalters als dynamischer Prozess, ed. by Michael Embach, Claudine Moulin and Andrea Rapp, Trierer Beiträge zu den Historischen Kulturwissenschaften, 3 (Wiesbaden: Reichert, 2012), pp. 53-78, colour plates 19-24, 27, 32-35, 39, black and white plates 5-9.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Bentinck, Margaret Cavendish, duchess of Portland, née Harley, collector of art and natural history specimens and patron of arts and sciences, 11 Feb 1715-17 Jul 1785,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000115857160,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/2356861
Harley, Edward, second earl of Oxford and Mortimer, book collector and patron of the arts, 2 Jun 1689-16 Jun 1741,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000108078249,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/160524259
Harley, Henrietta Cavendish, Countess of Oxford and Mortimer, née Holles, patron of architecture, 4 Feb 1694-9 Dec 1755,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000030125833,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/6045563
Harley, Robert, first Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, 5 Dec 1661-21 May 1724,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000083423906
Lunandus, scribe and monk of Arnstein Abbey, c 1172
Noel, Nathaniel, bookseller, fl 1681, d c 1753
The Premonstratensian abbey of St Mary and St Nicholas, Arnstein, Arnstein, 1139-1803