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Harley MS 4980, ff 76-143
- Record Id:
- 041-003368882
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002050824
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100041024419.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100060295947.0x000001
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 4980, ff 76-143
- Title:
- Alcuin, De fide Sanctae Trinitatis et de incarnatione Christi; Invocatio ad Sanctam Trinitatem; Questiones de Sancta Trinitate; De animae ratione: liber ad Eulaliam virginem
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 76r-123r: Alcuin, De fide Sanctae Trinitatis et de incarnatione Christi (On faith in the Holy Trinity and on the incarnation of Christ), preceded by the dedicatory epistle (ff. 76v-78v) and capitula (ff. 78v-80v).
ff. 123v-126r: Alcuin, Invocatio ad Sanctam Trinitatem (Invocation to the Holy Trinity).
ff. 126v-131r: Alcuin, Questiones de Sancta Trinitate (Questions on the Holy Trinity).
ff. 131v-143v: Alcuin, De animae ratione: liber ad Eulaliam virginem (On the rational soul, book to Eulalie the Virgin) (ff. 131v-141r), followed by an elegiac poem (ff. 141v-142r), beginning 'Qui mare, qui terram'; and by another poem (f. 142v), beginning: 'Te homo laudet' and ending with Alcuin's statement on the poem (ff. 143r-v), beginning: 'Hoc carmen tibi cecini senario numero nobile'; ending with a litany, partially erased (f. 143v): 'Miserere, Domine, miserere, Christe'.
Decoration:
Large rustic capitals in red at the beginning of each book and for some chapters. Initials highlighted in red or/and yellow, partially oxidised. Rubrics in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- England and France 700-1200 Project
Harley Collection - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002050824
041-003368882 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 4980 : Augustine, Fragment from De civitate Dei; Bede, Expositio actuum apostolorum; De fide Sanctae Trinitatis et de incarnatione…
Harley MS 4980, ff 76-143 : Alcuin, De fide Sanctae Trinitatis et de incarnatione Christi; Invocatio ad Sanctam Trinitatem; Questiones de… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[4980]/040-002050824[0003]/041-003368882
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
- Part of Harley MS 4980
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0800
- End Date:
- 0824
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 9th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Letter of introduction required to view this manuscript
- Physical Characteristics:
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Dimensions: 240 x 175 mm (text space 190 x 140 mm).
Script: Caroline minuscule.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: ? Tours, Central France.
Provenance:
Produced in the region of Tours, according to Bischoff, Katalog (2004) and Knibbs and Matter, Alcuini (2012).
Added, 11th century, notes on the calendar (f. 76r).
Added, 11th century, neumes (f. 110r).
Added, 11th century or 12th century, pen-trial of a decorated initial 'C' (f. 89v, lower margin).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Alcuin of York, c 735-804,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000115788089,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/96533523 - Subjects:
- Theology
- Places:
- Tours, France