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Harley MS 3941/2
- Record Id:
- 041-003346696
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002032707
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100035896733.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100057810379.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3941/2
- Title:
- Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae
- Scope & Content:
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The second of two volumes of the Etymologiae (Etymologies) of Isidore of Seville (b. c. 560, d. 636), an encyclopedia in twenty books dedicated to Braulio, Bishop of Saragossa (b. 590, d. 651), the editor of the text. The first volume is Harley MS 3941/1.
Contents:
ff. 140r-151r: Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae, Book XI, the human body and medicine.
ff. 151r-168r: Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae, Book XII, various animals, with a later addition to the text on inserted parchment strip (f. 166r).
ff. 168r-177r: Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae, Book XIII, celestial and terrestrial elements, such as air, water, sea, and rivers.
ff. 177r-189v: Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae, Book XIV, geographical aspects of the earth, including a small round map on f. 177r.
ff. 189v-202v: Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae, Book XV, aspects of human settlements such as cities, villages, fields and their boundaries, and travels.
ff. 202v-219v: Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae, Book XVI, stone, ivory, marble, metals, and weights and measures, with a later addition to the text on an inserted parchment strip (f. 216v).
ff. 219v-234v: Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae, Book XVII, agriculture and its products.
ff. 234v-244v: Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae, Book XVIII, war, weapons and trophies, and games.
ff. 244v-259v: Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae, Book XIX, ships, metal smithing, building construction, clothing and ornaments.
ff. 259v-265r: Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae, Book XX, furniture, implements for drinking and eating, vehicles, country life and gardening, and saddlery. lacking one leaf between ff. 263r-264r with consequent loss of text (XX, 6, 9-11,11).
Each book is preceded by a table of contents, with the exception of books X and XIX.
The manuscript is partly a palimpsest (ff. 240r-241r, 246r, 248r-249r, 251r, 253r-260r, 265r): the palimpsest leaves contain extracts from the Chronicle of Eusebius-St Jerome in uncial script datable to the 5th or 6th century.
The manuscript contains some later additions:
ff. 142v-143, 144r, 145v-146, 150r, 152v, 163v, 169v, 172r, 173r, 228v, 231r-231v, 234r, 238v: Marginal and interlinear glosses, in a contemporary and slightly later (10th-century) script.
Decoration:
Several large initials with interlace decoration, usually in yellow, red (oxidised), blue, and green, outlined in brown. Initials in brown ink, filled in red (oxidised), yellow, and/or green. Diagrams in red and brown (ff. 126v-127r). A small round map of the world in brown (f. 177r, lower margin).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- England and France 700-1200 Project
Harley Collection
Harley Science Project - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002032707
041-003346696 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3941 : Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae
Harley MS 3941/2 : Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[3934]/040-002032707[0002]/041-003346696
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
- A parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100057810379.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Breton
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0800
- End Date:
- 0899
- Date Range:
- 9th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 250 x 195 mm (text space: 205 x 150 mm).
Foliation: ff. 126 (+ 4 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and 4 at the end; lacking one leaf after f. 263); 2 foliated parchment strips (ff. 166, 216); 1 unfoliated parchment stub between f. 263 and f. 264.
Collation (continued from the first volume, Harley 3941/1): xviii8(ff. 140-147), xix8-1 (fourth leaves cancelled) (ff. 148-154), xx8(ff. 155-162), xxi10-2+i (fourth and eighth leaves cancelled, strip inserted between third and fifth leaves, foliated 166) (ff. 163-171),xxii8 (ff. 172-179), xxiii10-2 (third and seventh leaves cancelled) (ff. 180-187) ,xxiv-xxv8 (ff. 188-203), xxvi10-2 (fourth and eighth leaves cancelled) (ff. 204-211), xxvii10-2+i (third and seventh leaves cancelled, strip inserted between fifth and sixth leaves, foliated 216) (ff. 212-220), xxviii8(ff. 221-228), xxix10-2 (third and seventh leaves cancelled) (ff. 229-236), xxx10-2 (third and seventh leaves cancelled) (ff. 237-244), xxxi8 (ff. 245-252), xxxii10-2 (second and eighth leaves cancelled) (ff. 253-260), xxxii 8-3 (first and fourth leaves cancelled, sixth leaf lacking) (ff. 261-265). With hair-sides out and gathering number written in Roman numerals in lower margin of the last verso of each gathering.
Script: Caroline minuscule.
Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house. Rebound in 1966. The Harley arms and motto gilt-tooled at centre of covers.
- Custodial History:
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For the origin and provenance of this manuscript, please see the catalogue entry for Harley MS 3941 in the Archives and Manuscripts catalogue.
- Former Internal References:
- Harley MS 3941, folios 140-265
Harley MS 3941, part two - Information About Copies:
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- Publications:
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For the bibliography for this manuscript, please see the catalogue entry for Harley MS 3941 in the Archives and Manuscripts catalogue.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Notes:
- This manuscript is part of The Polonsky Foundation England and France Project: Manuscripts from the British Library and the Bibliothèque nationale de France, 700-1200.