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Harley MS 526, ff 1r-27v
- Record Id:
- 041-003252193
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046355
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100026969206.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100061362409.0x000005
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 526, ff 1r-27v
- Title:
- Bede, Vita Cuthberti Metrica (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina 2020)
- Scope & Content:
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This work contains a late 9th century copy of Bede's verse Life of Cuthbert, written in the region which is now northern France. It was in England by the mid-10th century, given the Old English names inscribed in the margin and the Old English glosses in the text (see, for example, ff. 2r, 15r).
Decoration: initials in brown and red and red rubics, with some red text now oxidised.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046355
041-003252193 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 526 : Bede, Vita Sancti Cuthberti metrica (BHL 2020); Vita Venerabilis Bedae (BHL1069); Vita Ædwardi Regis (BHL 2421); fragment of Aelred…
Harley MS 526, ff 1r-27v : Bede, Vita Cuthberti Metrica (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina 2020) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0526]/040-002046355[0001]/041-003252193
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
- 27 folios, part of a parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Harley_MS_526 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- English, Old
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0875
- End Date:
- 0899
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of 9th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Dimensions: folio 215 x 155 mm; text 155 x 115 mm.
Script: Caroline Minuscule.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: ? Northern France, late 9th century: possibly from the same scriptorium as Oxford, Bodleian Library, Rawlinson C 697 and Bibliothèque nationale de France, lat. 2825 (see Gretsch, Intellectual Foundations (1999), p. 357).
Provenance:
Sketches of decorated initials (f. 27v).
? England: added glosses and marginal inscriptions, 10th century (for example, f. 15r).
'Ælfric Wulfrices [erased]': inscribed names (f.2r).
Sketches of squares or Greek or Hebrew letters? (f. 27v).
Sir Simonds d'Ewes (b.1602, d. 1650), 1st baronet, diarist, antiquary: he inscribed 'Edit' per Henricum Canisium in Antiquis Lectionibus: sed vetustissimum hoc exemplar et optimi usus' (f. 27v). His number 5 is on f. 1r.
- Information About Copies:
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Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk.manuscripts.
- Publications:
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J. Stevenson, Venerabilis Bedae Opera Historica Minora, 2 vols (London: Sumptibus Societatis, 1841), II, 1-43 [includes edition].
J.A. Giles, Bedae Opera Quae Supersunt Omnia: The Complete Works of the Venerable Bede, 12 vols (London, 1843-4), I, 1-34 [includes edition].
Werner Jaager, Bedas metrische Vita Sancti Cuthberti (Leipzig, 1935) [includes edition].
N. R. Ker, Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957), no. 230 [ff. 1-27].
Gerald Bonner, Wearmouth, Bede, and Christian Culture: An Exhibition of Manuscripts at The Central Museum and Art Gallery, Sunderland (Sunderland: [n. pub.], 1974), no. 9.
The Golden Age of Anglo-Saxon Art 966-1066, ed. by Janet Backhouse, D. H. Turner, and Leslie Webster (London: British Museum, 1984), no. 149 [exhibition catalogue].
Michael Lapidge, 'Prolegomena to an Edition of Bede's Metrical "Vita Sancti Cuthberti" ', Filologia Mediolatina, 2 (1995), 127-163 (pp. 130, 131, 133, 136-37, 159).
Mechthild Gretsch, The Intellectual Foundations of the English Benedictine Reform (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), pp. 357-58.
Richard Gameson, ‘L’Angleterre et la Flandre aux Xe et XIe siècles: le témoignage des manuscrits’, in Les Échanges culturels au Moyen Âge, Série Histoire Ancienne et Médiévale, 70 (Paris: Sorbonne, 2002), pp. 165-206 (p. 183).
Mechthild Gretsch, Ælfric and the Cult of Saints in Late Anglo-Saxon England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), p. 81.
Michael Lapidge, The Anglo-Saxon Library (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), p. 170.
Nicholas Vincent, 'The Great Lost Library of England's Medieval Kings' in 1000 Years of Royal Books and Manuscripts, ed. by Kathleen Doyle and Scot McKendrick (London: The British Library, 2013), pp. 73-112 (p. 103).
Richard Gameson, 'The Circulation of Books between England and the Continent, c. 871-c.1100', in The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, 6 vols (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999-2012), I: 400-1100 (2012), ed. by Richard Gameson, 344-74 (p. 350 n. 21).
Helmut Gneuss and Michael Lapidge, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: A Bibliographical Handlist of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Written or Owned in England up to 1100 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014), no. 419.
Peter A. Stokes, English Vernacular Minuscule from Æthelred to Cnut circa 990-1035 (D.S. Brewer: Cambridge, 2014), pp. 178-80.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)