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Harley MS 624, ff 84-143v

Record Id:

041-003316524

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002046453

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100033398779.0x000001

LARK:

SLARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100066733280.0x000003

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 624, ff 84-143v

Title:

Passionale (Lives of Saints), imperfect

Scope & Content:

This part of Harley MS 624 comes from a Passionale (Lives of Saints) that was written at Christ Church, Canterbury. It was originally bound with Cotton MS Nero C VII (ff. 29r-79r) and Harley MS 315 (ff. 1r-39r).

Contents:

ff. 84v-89v: Passio Sancti Theodoreti (Passion of St Theodore).

ff. 89v-93v: Vita Sancti Eustasii (Life of St Eustace of Luxueil).

f. 93v: Prologue of the Vita Sancti Ambrosii Mediolanensis (Life of St Ambrose).

ff. 94r-99v: Vita Sancti Ambrosii Mediolanensis (Life of Saint Ambrose), imperfect.

f.100r: Explicit of the Office of the Holy Cross.

ff. 100r-101r: Passio Sancti Alexandrini (Passion of St Alexander, Pope Alexander I).

ff. 101v-103v: Passio Sancti Iude Quiriacus (Passion of St Judas Cyriacus).

ff. 103v-104v: Passio sancte Domitillae (Passion of St Domitilla).

ff. 104v-106v: Passio Sancti Victoris (Passion of St Victor the Moor).

ff. 106v-107v: Passio Sanctus Giordanus (Passion of St Giordanus).

ff. 107v-108v: Passio Sancti Pancratii (Passion of Saint Pancras).

ff. 108v-112r: Passio Sanctorum Nerei et Achillei (Passion of St Nereus and St Achilleus).

ff. 112r-112v: Passio Sancte Petronille (Passion of St Petronilla).

ff. 112v-113v: Passio sanctorum Nerei et Achillei, rescripta de passione eorum.

ff. 113v-114v: Passion Sancti Servatii (Passion of St Servatius).

f. 114v: Passio Sancti Maximi (Passion of Saint Maximus the Confessor), imperfect.

ff. 115r-120r: Vita Sancti Germani (Life of St Germanus).

ff. 120r-121r: Passion Sancti Cononis (Passion of St Conon).

ff. 121r-126r: Passio Sancti Odonis (Passion of St Odo).

ff. 126r-128v: Passio Sanctorum Marcellini presbyteri et Petri exorciste (Passion of St Marcellinus and St Peter).

ff. 128v-131v: Passio Sancti Herasmi (Passion of St Erasmus).

ff. 132r-134v: Passio Sancti Bonifacii (Passion of Saint Bonifacius).

ff. 134v-136v: Passio Sancti Alexis confessoris (Passion of St Alexis of Rone).

ff. 137r-139v: Passio Sancti Aelfegi (Passion of St Alphege of Canterbury).

ff. 139v-141v: Passio Sancti Medardi (Passion of St Medardus).

ff. 141v-143v: Passio Sancti Primi and Feliciani (Passion of Saint Primus and Felicianus), imperfect.

[ff. [114a]r, [114a]v are blank].

Decoration:

1 large initial in colours and gold with foliate decoration, faces and hybrids (f. 115r). 2 large historiated initials in colours: a historiated initial with hybrids, a portrait bust (emperor Julian or his minister?), and mask, at the beginning of the life of St Gordian (f. 106v); a historiated initial with St Michael the Archangel, who holds the scales to weigh the souls at the Last Judgement and spears a dragon below his feet, at the beginning of the life of St Alexis (f. 134v). Large initials in colours with foliate decoration, many also zoomorphic or inhabited with heads, men, animals, or hybrids (ff. 84v, 89v, 93v, 94r, 100r, 101v, 103v, 104v, 106v, 107v, 108v, 112r, 112v, 113v, 114v, 120r, 121r, 126r, 128v, 132r, 137r, 140r, 141v). Large initial in yellow with penwork decoration in red and green (f. 111r). Large initials in green, yellow, blue, or red, some with reserved white lines or simple penwork decoration. Rubrics in red.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

England and France 700-1200 Project
Harley Collection

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002046453
041-003316524

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 624 : Chronicles; Passionale (Lives of Saints); Historica collectanea

Harley MS 624, ff 84-143v : Passionale (Lives of Saints), imperfect

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[0624]/040-002046453[0001]/041-003316524

Container:

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

Record Type (Level):

Item

Extent:

Part of Harley MS 624

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:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 380 x 260 mm (text space: 310 x 200 mm, in two columns).

Script: Protogothic.

Custodial History:

Origin: Canterbury, Southeastern England.

Provenance:

The cathedral priory of the Holy Trinity or Christ Church, Canterbury, founded in 597: cited in its catalogue (see Ker, Medieval libraries of Great Britain (1964), p. 36); typical Canterbury-Dover script (see Sharpe,Willoughby, Medieval libraries of Great Britain (2015) «http://mlgb3.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/mlgb/book/1263/?search_term=harley%20624&page_size=500» [accessed 18 July 2016]).

? 'Johannes Byrchynton' (fl. 15th century): his name inscribed (f. 88v).

John Dee (b. 1527; d. 1608), mathematician and astrologer: his hand throughout (Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1975), p. 126).

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Subjects:

Hagiography
Liturgy

Places:

Canterbury, England

Related Archive Descriptions:

Cotton MS Nero C VII, ff 29–79
Harley MS 315 ff 1r-39v