London. British Library, Harley MS 1915

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The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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London. British Library
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  • British Library, Harley MS 1915
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Language
  • Latin
Title
  • The Eusebian canon tables; Zacharias of Besançon, De Concordia Evangelistarum; Bede, Expositio Super Acta Apostolorum; Bede, Retractatio in Actus Apostolorum; Victorinus of Pettau, Commentarius in Apocalypsim; Bede, Nomina Regionum atque Locorum de Actibus Apostolorum; Commemoratorium de Apocalypsi Iohannis Apostoli
Agent
  • Preferred form
    • Bède le Vénérable (saint, 0673?-0735)
    Original form
    • Bede the Venerable, c 673-735, Saint
    Other form
    • Bède le Vénérable (saint ; 0673?-0735)
    • Beda Venerabilis
    • Beda Venerabilis (saint ; 0673?-0735)
    • BEDA VENERABILIS
    • BEDA
    • Beda
    • BEDA VENERABILIS (s.)
    • Bède
    • S. Beda venerabilis
    • Venerabilis Bedae
    • Bède le Vénérable (0673?-0735)
    • Beda Venerabilis (ps.)
    • S. Beda Venerabilis
    • Venerabilis BEDE
    • Bede
    • Bedae
    • Bedae venerabilis
    • Bède le Vénérable saint 0673?-0735
    • Beda, el Venerable, sant, 673-735
    • Beda el Venerable, Santo
    • Beda Venerabilis 672-735
    • Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735
    • Author: Beda, Venerabilis
    • Commentator: Beda, Venerabilis
    • Bede (attributed to)
    • Bede the Venerable
    • Bede the Venerable (attrib.)
    • Bede (673/4–735)
    • The Venerable Bede
    • Beda Venerabilis, 673-735
    • Beda<Venerabilis>
    • Bède le Vénérable
    • Beda <Venerabilis> (672-735)
    • Beda Scotus
    • Beda Venerabilis, ca.673-735
    • Beda Venerabilis, ca. 673-735
    • Bede, the Venerable, Saint 673-735
    • Bede the Venerable (b. c. 673, d. 735), monk and theologian
    • Bede the Venerable, Saint (673-735)
    • Bede, the Venerable, Saint (673-735)
    • Bède le Vénérable, saint (0673?-0735)
    • Beda, Venerabilis, 672-735
    • Beda <Venerabilis>
    • Beda, O Venerável, 673-736
    • Beda, O Venerável, 673-736 > , co-autor
    • Beda Venerabilis - 673 - 735 - auteur
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  • Preferred form
    • Victorin (saint, 02..-0304)
    Original form
    • Victorinus of Pettau, d 304, Saint, Bishop of Pettau
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  • Preferred form
    • Zacharie de Besançon (11..?-1157)
    Original form
    • Zacharias of Besançon, d c 1156, also known as Zacharias Chrysopolitanus
    Other form
    • Zacharias Chrysopolitanus
    • Zacharias of Besançon OPrem
    • Zacharie de Besançon, écolâtre de la cathédrale Saint-Jean de Besançon en 1131, puis, vers 1140, moine prémontré à l'abbaye Saint-Martin de Laon (11..?-1157)
    • Zacharias Chrysopolitanus, ?-1155
    • Zacharias Chrysopolitanus, ?-1155 > , co-autor
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Description
  • This manuscript is closely related to the readings of the New Testament as it includes a concordance on the four Gospels written by Zacharias of Besancon (d. 1157). It is followed by Bede's commentary on the Acts of Apostle, including his retractatio, a treatise in which he underlined his own mistakes in a previous commentary on the Acts of Apostle. The manuscript includes also another Bede's text related to the Acts of Apostle, the Nomina Regionum atque Locorum de Actibus Apostolorum (The Names of the Regions and Places in the Book of Acts) , a geographical dictionary on the places and regions cited in Acts. The eschatological part of the manuscript includes a commentary on Apocalypse by Victorinus of Pettau and an anonymous commentary on Apocalypse. Contents:ff. 1v-6r: A table of chapters of the four Gospels ff. 6v-8v: The Eusebian canon tables. ff. 9r-164v: Zacharias of Besançon, De concordia evangelistarum (On the concordance of Gospels) with glosses copied by the same scribe , preceded by a prologue (ff. 9r-16r); beginning of the prologue, imperfect: '[De excellentia Evangelii et differentia ipsius ad legem, de figuris evan]gelistarum et eorum modo scribendi, de materia Evangelii'; the Epilogus brevis (the Brief Epilogue) in verse (f. 16r); the second prologue (ff. 15v-16r); the third prologue (ff. 16r-v); capitula of the two books (ff. 16v-17r); commentary on capitula (f. 17r); Book 1 (ff. 17r-48v), preceded by a prologue (ff. 17r-v), the text beginning: 'In principio erat verbum [...]. Verbum, id est sapientia nata, disponens omnia'; Book 2 (ff. 49r-80r), beginning: 'Et factum est cum consummasset Ihesu participiens duodecim discipulis suis [...]. Civitates discipulorum dicit'; Book 3 (ff. 80r-131v), preceded by capitula (ff. 80r-v), beginning: 'Venit Ihesu in partes Cesaree Philippi. Philippus frater Herodis tetracha Ituree et Trachnotidis regionum'; Book 4 (ff. 132r-164v), preceded by capitula (f. 132r), beginning: 'Et factum est, cum consummasset Ihesus sermones hos omnes [...]. Scitis qui post biduum pascha fiet [...]. Consummatis verbo et opera sermonibus cunctis ab initio Evangelii', ending: 'Novissime visus est et mihi. Hoc non post parvum tempus ascensionis'. ff. 165r-183r: Bede, Expositio super Acta Apostolorum (Commentary on the Acts of Apostles), preceded by capitula (ff. 165r-167r), extracts from the Admonitio Lectori (Admonition to the reader) from Zacharias of Besancon's De concordia evangelistarum (f. 167r), followed by a short text, which is an anonymous commentary on Matthew, attributed here to Remigius of Auxerre on the Passion and the Last Supper (f. 167r), beginning: 'Remigius in Mattheum capitulum CCCLI. Si anni recte computentur ab inicio mundi usque ad passionem Domini invenimus quum ipso anno quo Dominus passus est secundum annos Lunares VIII idus Martii fuit neomenia'. Prologue of Bede's Expositio super Acta Apostolorum (ff. 167v-168r) , beginning: 'Domino in Christo desideratissimo et vere beatissimo Acce episcopo'; beginning of the text (f. 168r): 'Primum quidem sermonem feci de omnibus [...]. De omnibus se dicit Christi factis et dictis in Evangelio scripsisse'. ff. 183r-192v: Bede, Retractatio in Actus Apostolorum, in which the author corrected the errors he made in his Commentary on the Acts of Apostles; preceded by a prologue (f. 183r), beginning: 'Scimus eximium doctorem ac pontificem Augustinum'; beginning of the text (f. 183r): 'Primum quidem sermonem feci de omnibus'. ff. 193r-198v: Victorinus of Pettau, Commentarius in Apocalypsim (Commentary on Apocalypse) , preceded by St Jerome's prologue on Victorinus of Pettau's commentary on Apocalypse (f. 193r), beginning: 'Diversos marina discrimina transvadantes inveniunt casus'; Victornus's commentary beginning (f. 193r): 'Principium libri beatitudinem legenti, audienti et servanti'. ff. 198v-200v: Bede, Nomina Regionum atque Locorum de Actibus Apostolorum , beginning: 'Acheldemach, hoc est ager sanguinis, qui hodieque demonstratur in Helia ad Australem plagam montis Syon', imperfect at the end: 'Theatrum, locus a spectaculo vocabulum mutuans, quod in eo populus desuper atque spectans ludos scenicos contemplaretur'. ff. 200v-202r: Anonymous, Commemoratorium de Apocalypsi Iohannis Apostoli, a reading guide on the Apocalypse, beginning: 'Incipit brevis expositio Ieronimi in Apocalypsim Iohannis apostoli. Iohannes Gratia Dei interpretatur, figuram Christi tenuit' Decoration:Full-page canon tables with decorated architectural frames in red, green, blue, and some yellow (ff. 6v-8v). Four large decorated initials in gold and colours with foliate motifs, hybrid creatures, and animals (ff. 17v, 49r, 80v, 132r), one including a head (f. 17v). Six puzzle initials in red and blue with penwork decoration including arabesque motifs, one with ropework motifs, one with some green (ff. 167v, 168r, 183r, 193r (x2), 100v). Numerous initials in blue or red, with penwork decoration in the alternate colour and occasionally with a reserved line. 3 initials in green with penwork decoration in red (ff. 49, 61v, 87v). Numerous small initials in red or blue. Display script in red with some blue (f. 77v) or in brown with some red (f. 49r). Rubrics in red. Underlining in red.
Place
  • Preferred form
    • England (United Kingdom)
    Original form
    • England
    Other form
    • Angleterre
    • Angleterre (?)
    • Angleterre.
    • Angleterre ?
    • Anglaterra
    • Inglaterra
    • Engeland
    • Angleterre (Salisbury ?)
    • Anglaterra (Salisbury?)
    • Inglaterra (Salisbury?)
    • England (Salisbury?)
    • [Oxford?]
    • [England]
    • England, Norwich?
    • England, Canterbury, St. Augustine's Abbey?
    • England, Cornwall?
    • England, St. Albans?
    • England, North?
    • England, York?
    • England, Witham?
    • England, Winchester or St. Albans
    • England, Reading or Leominster
    • England, Cirencester?
    • England, Sherborne?
    • England, Worcester?
    • England, Bury St. Edmunds?
    • England, Tewkesbury?
    • England, East Anglia?
    • England, Peterborough?
    • England, Mercia?
    • England, Canterbury, Christ Church?
    • England, Canterbury, St. Augustine's?
    • England, Winchester?
    • England, Oxford?
    • Flanders (possibly executed in England)
    • England and Netherlands
    • England, Canterbury?
    • England, West Midlands?
    • England, London?
    • England, Crowland?
    • England, Wessex?
    • England, Reading?
    • England, Northeast?
    • England, Southeast?
    • England, Ely?
    • England, Winchester or Hereford?
    • England, Salisbury?
    • England, Oxford or Salisbury
    • German (but made in England)
    • England, South East (?)
    • England. Peterborough (?) or Lincoln (?)
    • Hereford?, England
    • England, Durham ?
    • England, Durham?
    • England, probably Durham
    • England, Oxford (?)
    • England, possibly Oxford
    • England (?Oxford)
    • England, Durham (?)
    • England, London/Westminster
    • Unknown, possibly London and Cambridge
    • Royal Chancery, London; Cambridge
    • Engeland (?)
    • England (II)
    • I. England
    • [Engeland]
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  • Preferred form
    • France, Northern
    Original form
    • Northern France
    Other form
    • Nord de la France
    • Nord de la France (?) (Fichier Avril)
    • Nord de la France (?)
    • France (Nord).
    • France (Nord)
    • France (Nord) (?)
    • France (nord)
    • France (Nord : voir Faral, Bastin, Œuvres complètes de Rutebeuf, p. 26-27).
    • France (Nord de la France ?)
    • Nordfrankreich
    • França (nord)
    • Francia (norte)
    • Frankrijk (noorden)
    • Laon
    • France (nord : Laon ?)
    • França (nord: Laon?)
    • Nordfrankreich (Laon?)
    • Northern France (Laon?)
    • Francia (norte: Laon?)
    • Northern France (Paris?)
    • France, North, Chelles (nunnery) or Jouarre (nunnery) (?)
    • France, North
    • Northern France
    • Northern France
    • Northern France, Paris (?)
    • [Nordfrankreich]
    • Oberitalien und Nordfrankreich
    • Noord-Frankrijk (?)
    • Noord-Frankrijk
    • Nordfrankreich (Teil 2]
    • II./III. Nordfrankreich
    • Nordfrankreich (I)
    • [Noord-Frankrijk]
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  • Public domain in most countries other than the UK
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