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Harley MS 110, ff 2r-55v
- Record Id:
- 041-003202536
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002045938
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100026731891.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100061343262.0x000002
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 110, ff 2r-55v
- Title:
- Glossed copy of Prosper, Epigrammata ex sententiis S. Augustini [Clavis Patrum Latinorum, no. 526]; Prosper, Pseudo-Prosper, or Paulinus, Poema coniugis ad uxorem [Clavis Patrum Latinorum, no.531]; Isidore, Synonymorum de lamentatione animae peccatricis [Clavis Patrum Latinorum, no. 1203]
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains a group of patristic texts which have been glossed in both Latin and Old English. Most of the glosses seem to be contemporary, with a few eleventh-century glosses (Ker, Catalogue (1957), p. 304). The style of the initials suggest that the manuscript was written at Christ Church, Canterbury in the late tenth century (Wormald, Collected Writings (1984), p. 73). Musical notation and an exercise in Latin comparatives and superlatives, written in later, protogothic hands, were added at blank spaces at the beginning and end of the folios.
Contents:
ff. 3-24v: Prosper, Epigrammata ex sententiis S. Augustini [Clavis Patrum Latinorum, no. 526] and Versus ad coniugem [Clavis Patrum Latinorum, no.531];
ff. 25-53r: Isidore, Synonyma de lamentatione animae peccatricis [Clavis Patrum Latinorum, no. 1203]
Decoration: zoomorphic initial with interlace in green, red and black, foliate initial in red, initial with a zig-zag pattern in green and red (f. 3r); pointing manicula (ff. 40v, 50r, 52r); initials in red and black and rubrication throughout.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002045938
041-003202536 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 110 : Glossed copy of Prosper, Epigrammata ex sententiis S. Augustini; Versus ad coniugem; Isidore, Synonyma de lamentatione…
Harley MS 110, ff 2r-55v : Glossed copy of Prosper, Epigrammata ex sententiis S. Augustini [Clavis Patrum Latinorum, no. 526]; Prosper,… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0109]/040-002045938[0002]/041-003202536
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
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53 parchment folios, part of a parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Harley_MS_110 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English, Old
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0975
- End Date:
- 0999
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of 10th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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ff 2r-55v:
Origin: Christ Church, Canterbury, late tenth century. The decoration of the initials resembles other manuscripts from Christ Church from that period (Wormald, Collected Writings (1984), p. 73). Bishop associated the manuscript with his 'Scribe XX' from Canterbury, to whom he also attributed Royal MS 15 B. XIX, Royal MS 5 E XI, Bodleian Library MS Hatton 42, and Paris, Bibliothèque nationale lat. 14380 (Bishop, 'Notes on Cambridge Manuscripts Part VI', p. 423; Bishop, English Caroline, p. xxvi).
- Information About Copies:
- Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk.manuscripts.
- Publications:
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Edward Bernard, Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae in unum collecti cum indice alphabetico (Oxford, 1697), p. 388.
Herbert Meritt, Old English Glosses: A Collection (London: Oxford University Press, 1945), no. 21, 23 [includes edition of some glosses].
N.R. Ker, Catalogue of Manuscripts containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957), no. 228.
T.A.M. Bishop, 'Notes on Cambridge Manuscripts, Part VI', Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society 3 (1959-1963), 412-23 (pp. 421, 423).
Andrew Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes (London: British Museum, 1966), no. A 257.
T.A.M. Bishop, English Caroline Minuscule (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971), p. xxvi.
Elisabeth Temple, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts, 900-1066 (London: Harvey Miller, 1976), no. 19.
Karl Toth, 'Altenglische Interlinearglossen zu Prospers Epigrammata und Versus ad Coniugem', Anglia, 102 (1984), 1-36.
Insular and Anglo-Saxon Illuminated Manuscripts: An Iconographic Catalogue c. A.D. 625 to 1100, ed. by Thomas Ohlgren (New York: Garland, 1986), no. 103.
E. Dekker, Clavis Patrum Latinorum (Steenbrugis: Brepols, 1995), no. 526, no.531, no. 1203.
Michael Lapidge, Anglo-Latin Literature 600-899 (London: Hambledon Press, 1996), pp. 466 n. 45, 469.
Mechthild Gretsch, The Intellectual Foundations of the English Benedictine Reform (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), pp. 216-18.
Michael Lapidge, The Anglo-Saxon Library (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), pp. 312, 327, 328.
Claudia Di Sciacca, 'The Manuscript Tradition, Presentation, and Glossing of Isidore's Synonyma in Anglo-Saxon England: The Case of CCCC 448, Harley 110, and Cotton Tiberius A.iii', in Foundations of Learning: The transfer of encyclopaedic knowledge in the early Middle Ages, ed. by Rolf Bremmer and Kees Dekker (Leuven: Peeters, 2007), 95-124 (pp. 97, 111-13).
Claudia Di Sciacca, Finding the Right Words: Isidore's Synonyma in Anglo-Saxon England (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008), pp. 68-71, 110-11, 168-69.
Claudia Di Sciacca, 'Glossing in Late Anglo-Saxon England: A Sample Study of the Glosses in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 448 and London, British Library, Harley 110', in Rethinking and Recontextualizing Glosses: New Perspectives in the Study of Late Anglo-Saxon Glossography, ed. by Patrizia Lendinara, Loredana Lazzari, and Claudia Di Sciacca, Textes et Études Du Moyen Âge, 54 (Porto: Fédération Internationale des Instituts d'Études Médiévales, 2011), 299-336.
Richard Gameson, 'The material fabric of early British books', in The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, Volume I: c. 400-1100, ed. by Richard Gameson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), pp. 13-93 (p. 29 n. 66).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)