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Detailed record for Harley 3131
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| Title |
Glossed Pauline Epistles, table of Psalms, excerpts from John, excerpts from Kings with allegorical and moral exposition (imperfect at the end) |
| Origin |
England or France |
| Date |
2nd half of the 12th century |
| Language |
Latin |
| Script |
Protogothic |
| Decoration |
1 initial in red and green with penwork decoration in the same colours (f. 93). Large initials in red, some with simple penwork decoration (e.g., f. 36v). Small plain initials in red or light green. Smaller plain initials in red. Headers and rubrics in red. |
| Dimensions in mm |
215 x 155 (160 x 80), ff. 78-107 in two columns |
| Official foliation |
ff. 108 (+ 5 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end) |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
BM/BL in-house. Rebound in 1965. Brown leather covers of a previous binding are pasted inside the present ones. |
| Provenance |
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 |
Interlinear and marginal glosses.
f. 108 is a small parchment fragment. |
| Select bibliography |
A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), no. 3131. |
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