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Harley MS 526, ff 68r-77v

Record Id:

041-003252197

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002046355

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100026969259.0x000001

LARK:

SLARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100061362409.0x000001

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 526, ff 68r-77v

Title:

Vita Ade et Evae

Scope & Content:

This item contains a 14th-century copy of an apocryphal text, entitled 'Vita Protoplasti nostri Ade, et Eve uxoris sue, fabulosissima' in this manuscript.

Decoration: 1 large initial in blue and red (f. 68r).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002046355
041-003252197

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 68r-77v : Vita Ade et Evae

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[0526]/040-002046355[0005]/041-003252197

Container:

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

Record Type (Level):

Item

Extent:

10 folios, part of a parchment codex

Digitised Content:

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Harley_MS_526 (digital images currently unavailable)

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Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1300

End Date:

1399

Date Range:

14th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment and ink, with paper guards on three, sometimes four sides of the parchment.

Dimensions: parchment approx. 200 x 120 mm; text approx. 150 x 90 mm.

Script: Gothic.

Custodial History:

Origin: England, 14th century.

Provenance:

15th or 16th century inscription: 'J H[faded]' (f. 77r).

Information About Copies:

Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk.manuscripts.

Publications:

Wilhelm Meyer, 'Vita Adae et Evae', Abhandlungen der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-historische Klasse, 14 (1879), 185-250 [includes edition largely based on German manuscripts].

J. H. Mozley, 'The Vita Adae', Journal of Theological Studies 30 (1929), 121-47 (pp. 121, 128-48) [includes edition].

M.E.B. Halfrod, 'The Apocryphal Vita Adae et Evae: Some Comments on the Manuscript Tradition', Neuphilologische Mitteilungen, 82 (1981), 417-27 (p. 422).

J.P. Pettorelli, 'La Vie Latine d'Adam et Eve: Analyse de la tradition manuscrite', Apocrypha, 10 (1999), 195-296 (pp. 203, 254).

Stella P. Revard, 'From Metanoia to Apocalypse: Paradise Lost and the Apocryphal Lives of Adam and Eve', JEGP, 104 (2005), 80-102 (p. 83 n. 7).

'Life of Adam and Eve', ed. by David M. Miller and Ian W. Scott, in The Online Critical Pseudepigrapha, ed. by Ken Penner, David M. Miller, and Ian W. Scott (Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2006) http://www.purl.org/net/ocp/Adam.html.

Brian Murdoch, The Apochryphal Adam and Eve in Medieval Europe: Vernacular Translations and Adaptations of the Vernacular Vita Adae et Evae (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), pp. 75, 108, 110.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)