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Harley MS 6311B
- Record Id:
- 040-004374152
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-004374152
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100166894105.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6311B
- Title:
- Gospels
- Scope & Content:
-
Contents:
f. 1*v: ownership inscriptions, partly illegible due to water damage.
ff. 1r-252v: Gospels.
ff. 253r-273v: calendrical texts.
ff. 273r-274r: paschalia table.
ff. 274v-275v: colophon dated 1576.
ff. 275v-276r: homily on humility.
f. 276v: Cyrillic alphabet followed by a cryptogram.
ff. 1*r, 73v, 118v, 194v are blank.
Vertical catchwords.
Decoration:
Plaited borders on ff. 1r, 74r, 119r, 253r and 265v in gold, blue, green, yellow, and red, and a teratological one on f. 195r. Pen drawings of a hand holding a cross, with stars (ff. 73r, 118r, 194r, 252v). Large (usually about 30 mm) red, gold or green initials at the beginning of each pericope, often elaborately decorated with zavitki etc. Red, gold, blue, or green decoration to initials, headings, and capitals. Green and red line fillers (f. 264r).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-004374152", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 6311B: Gospels" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-004374152 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 6311B : Gospels - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[7981]/040-004374152
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Romanian
- Scripts:
- Cyrillic
- Start Date:
- 1574
- End Date:
- 1574
- Date Range:
- 1574
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Paper.
Dimensions: 195 x 130 mm (text space: 150 x 80 mm).
Foliation: ff. 1* + 276 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 3 at the end).
Script: Poluustav.
Binding: Post-1600. 'Harleian' binding of gold-tooled red leather; marbled endpapers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Romania.
Provenance:
Rupertus Lentulus de Dorndorff, 17th century (f. 1*v).
Andrew Hay (d. 1754), dealer; sold to Harley in February September 1722 (Wright 1972, pp. 182-83).
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 ‘die mensis Februarii, A.D. 1721/22’ (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.
- 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. 5322.
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. 183.
Ralph Cleminson, A Union Catalogue of Cyrillic Manuscripts in British and Irish Collections (London: University of London, 1988), pp. 161-62.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)