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Harley MS 2688, ff 55r-66v

Record Id:

041-001612930

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-001612920

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000002012.0x0000b9

LARK:

SLARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100060276198.0x000001

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 2688, ff 55r-66v

Title:

Boethius, De musica (books 1-2)

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 55r-66v: Boethius (b. c. 480, d. 524), De musica (On music), books 1-2, with marginal glosses, beginning: '[O]mnium quidem percepcio sensum'; ending: 'Nunc voluminis seriem fastidii vitator astringam'.

Decoration:

Space left for an initial at the beginning of the text. Initials highlighted in blue and red.

Diagrams highlighted in colours.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

England and France 700-1200 Project
Greek Manuscripts
Harley Collection

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-001612920
041-001612930

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 2688 : A collection of fragments including Liutprand of Cremona, Antapodosis; a Miscellany; Quintus Horatius Flaccus Epodes; Quintus…

Harley MS 2688, ff 55r-66v : Boethius, De musica (books 1-2)

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[2689]/040-001612920[0010]/041-001612930

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661

Record Type (Level):

Item

Extent:

Part of Harley MS 2688

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1100

End Date:

1149

Date Range:

1st half of the 12th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Dimensions: 345 x 230 mm (text space: 270 x 155 mm).

Script: Late Caroline minuscule.

Custodial History:

Origin: France.

Provenance:

An unknown 12th-century owner: added the first line of the chant 'Confitemini Domino quoniam bonus' in the early 12th century (f. 54v).

An unknown 14th-century owner: added early 14th-century annotations and pen trials (ff. 55r, 60v; 66v).

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: purchased by Edward Harley on 13th August 1724 (see Wright and Wright, The Diary of Humfrey Wanley (1966); Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)).

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Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Boethius, Anicius Manlius Torquatus Severinus, c 480-524/525,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000122834442,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/100218964

Subjects:

Classical Literature
Science

Places:

France