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Harley MS 526, ff 28r-37v

Record Id:
041-003252194
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
040-002046355
MDARK:
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LARK:
SLARK:
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Format:
ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 526, ff 28r-37v
Title:

Vita Venerabilis Bedae (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina 1069)

Scope & Content:

This item contains prose life of Bede (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina 1069), copied in France or England in the first half of the 12th century. The preface begins 'Inter catholicos sacrae Scripturae expositores...'

Decoration: 2 coloured initials (f. 28r-v).

Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Harley Collection
Hierarchy Record Ids:
032-002045828
040-002046355
041-003252194
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 28r-37v : Vita Venerabilis Bedae (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina 1069)
Hierarchy:
032-002045828[0526]/040-002046355[0002]/041-003252194
Container:
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Record Type (Level):
Item
Extent:
10 folios, part of a parchment codex
Digitised Content:
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Languages:
Latin
Scripts:
Latin
Start Date:
1100
End Date:
1149
Date Range:
1st half of 12th century
Era:
CE
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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: parchment and ink, where the lower margin and longest edge of the parchment sheets have been set in guarded paper folios.

Dimensions: parchment only approximately 200 x 140 mm; text approximately 165 x 110 mm.

Script: Protogothic.

Custodial History:

Origin: ? Durham, 1st quarter of the 12th century: The main scribe of this manuscript may be the same as the scribe of Durham Cathedral Library, B II 26. Symeon of Durham added the rubrication and some marginalia to this item (see Gullick, 'Hand of Symeon' (1998), p. 28).

Provenance:

Sir Simonds d'Ewes (b.1602, d. 1650), 1st baronet, diarist, antiquary: inscribed 'Rarissimum exemplar MS' (f. 37v). His number '43' is on f. 28r.

Information About Copies:

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Publications:

Michael Gullick, 'The Hand of Symeon of Durham: Further Observation on the Durham Martyrology Scribe', in Symeon of Durham: Historian of Durham and the North, ed. by David Rollason (Stamford: Shaun Tyas, 1998), 14-31 (p. 28, no. 25).

David Rollason, 'The Cult of Bede', in The Cambridge Companion to Bede, ed. by Scott DeGregorio (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), 193-200 (pp. 195, 198 n. 9).

Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)