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| Part 1 |
ff. 1-17v |
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| Author |
Prosper of Aquitaine (Prosperi Aquitanici) |
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| Title |
Epigrammata |
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| Origin |
France |
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| Date |
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century |
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| Language |
Latin |
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| Script |
Protogothic |
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| Decoration |
Initials in brown and red (the red oxidised). Plain initials in brown or red. |
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| Dimensions in mm |
215 x 130 (185 x 90) |
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| Part 2 |
ff. 18-45v |
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| Title |
Treatise on etymology, imperfect at the beginning |
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| Origin |
France |
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| Date |
12th century |
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| Language |
Latin |
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| Script |
Protogothic |
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| Decoration |
No decorative features. |
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| Dimensions in mm |
215 x 140 (195 x 125) |
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| Part 3 |
ff. 46-53 |
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| Title |
Treatise on logic with a gloss |
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| Origin |
France |
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| Date |
2nd half of the 13th century |
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| Language |
Latin |
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| Script |
Gothic, written below the top line |
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| Decoration |
1 large initial in blue with red pen-flourishing (f. 46). 2 smaller plain initials in red (f. 46). |
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| Dimensions in mm |
210 x 150 (115 x 60) |
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| Part 4 |
ff. 54-56 |
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| Title |
Life of bishop Maternien of Reims, imperfect at the beginning |
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| Origin |
France |
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| Date |
Last quarter of the 10th century or 1st quarter of the 11th century |
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| Language |
Latin |
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| Script |
Caroline minuscule |
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| Decoration |
Large plain initials in brown ink. |
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| Dimensions in mm |
215 x 145 (165 x 100) |
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| Official foliation |
ff. 56 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 1 unfoliated parchment and 1 paper flyleaf at the end) |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
Post-1600. Brown leather with gold-tooling. |
| Provenance |
Inscribed, 'J. de Selve' (ff. 1, 46).
The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (b. 1661, d. 1724), 1st earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, and Edward Harley (b. 1689, d. 1741), 2nd earl of Oxford and Mortimer, book collector and patron of the arts.
Edward Harley bequeathed the library to his widow, Henrietta Cavendish, née Holles (b. 1694, d. 1755) during her lifetime and thereafter to their daughter, Margaret Cavendish Bentinck (b. 1715, d. 1785), duchess of Portland; the manuscripts were sold by the Countess and the Duchess in 1753 to the nation for £10,000 (a fraction of their contemporary value) under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library. |
| Notes |
f. 45 is a stub.
Added notated hymns, one to St Boniface (f. 56v). Musical notation: neumes and mixed alphabetic with system notation, northern France, 10th century (f. 56v). |
| Select bibliography |
A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), II (1808), no. 3019. |
