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London. British Library, Harley MS 2637

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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 2637
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  • Latin
Title
  • Cassiodorus, Oratio ( Institutiones 1, 32); Cassiodorus, Institutiones, book 2; added chants; Helisachar, Epistola ad Nibridium archiepiscopum Narbonensem; a list of verbs; Smaragdus, Liber in Partibus Donati
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  • Preferred form
    • Cassiodore (0490?-0580?)
    Original form
    • Cassiodorus, Flavius Magnus Aurelius Senator, c 485-585
    Other form
    • CASSIODORIUS
    • Cassiodorus, Flavius Magnus Aurelius (0490?-0580?)
    • Cassiodoro
    • Cassiodore (0490?-0580?)
    • Flavius Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus
    • Cassiodorus
    • CASSIODORUS (Magnus Aurelius)
    • Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus
    • Cassiodori
    • CASSIODORUS
    • Cassiodore
    • Cassiodore 0490?-0580?
    • Cassiodorus, Flavius Magnus Aurelius
    • Casiodoro, Magno Aurelio
    • Cassiodor, Flavi Magne Aureli, ca. 490-ca. 580
    • Cassiodorus, Flavius Magnus Aurelius 490-583
    • Cassiodorus, Senator, ca. 487-ca. 580
    • Author: Cassiodorus, Flavius Magnus Aurelius
    • Cassiodorus Senator
    • Cassiodorus, Senator, approximately 487-approximately 580
    • Cassiodorus, Flavius Magnus Aurelius, senator, 485?-580?
    • Flavius Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus (490-583)
    • Cassiodorus senator
    • Cassiodorus senator servus Dei
    • Aurelius Cassiodorus
    • Cassiodoro, Flavio Magno Aurelio
    • Senator, Cassiodorus, 485-580
    • Cassiodorus Senator (b. c. 485, d. c. 580), statesman, scholar and administrator
    • Cassiodore (v. 485-v. 580))
    • Cassiodorus Senator, Flavius Magnus Aurelius (ca.485-ca.580)
    • Cassiodorus, Flavius Magnus Aurelius, 490-583.
    • Cassiodorus, Flavius Magnus Aurelius, 490-583
    • Cassiodoro, ca 487-ca 580 > , co-autor
    • Cassiodoro, ca 487-ca 580
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    • Smaragde de Saint Mihiel (0750?-0825?)
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    • Smaragdus of Saint-Mihiel, c 750-c 825, Abbot of St Mihiel-sur-Meuse
    Other form
    • Smaragdus Sancti Michaelis (0750?-0825?)
    • Smaragdus
    • SMARAGDUS
    • Smaragde de Saint Mihiel (0750?-0825?)
    • Smaragdus Sancti Michaelis
    • SMARAGDUS, O.S.B.
    • Smaragde de Saint Mihiel 0750?-0825?
    • Smaragdus, Abbot of St. Mihiel, fl. 809-819
    • Smaragdus Sancti Michaelis -830
    • Smaragdus van Sint-Mihiel
    • Author: Smaragdus, Sancti Michaelis
    • Smaragdus of Saint-Mihiel
    • Smaragdus, abbas sancti Michaelis, active 809-819
    • Smaragdus, 760-840
    • Smaragdus of St-Mihiel, (b. c. 760, d. c. 840), abbot and writer
    • Smaragde de saint Mihiel (0750?-0825?)
    • Smaragdus Sancti Michaelis 750-830.
    • Smaragdus Sancti Michaelis 750-830
    • Smaragdus Sancti Michaelis Virdunensis
    • Smaragdus, O.S.B., ?-829 > , co-autor
    • Smaragdus, ?-829, O.S.B.
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  • Preferred form
    • Helisachar Andegavensis (07..-08..)
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    • Helisachar of Saint-Riquier, d 833
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    • Hélisachar (07..-083.)
    • Hélisachar
    • Elisagarus
    • Helisachar Andegavensis -0833?
    • Hélisachar de Saint-Riquier‏
    • Helisachar
    • Helisachar Andegavensis, d. ca. 833
    • Helisachar Andegavensis, m. ca. 833
    • Helisachar Andegavensis fl.gest. ca. 833
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Description
  • Contents: This Lotharingian manuscript consists of four parts written in the 2nd or 3rd half of the 9th century, except the chants and Helisachar's Epistle (ff. 53r-55r), which have been written in the 2nd half of the 10th century. ff. 1r-2v: Cassiodorus, Oratio , excerpted from the Institutiones book 1 ( De Institutione Divinarum Litterarum ), chapter 33. ff. 2v-5r: Cassiodorus, Institutiones , book 2 ( De Artibus ac Disciplinis Liberalium Litterarum ), preface (ff. 2v-5r), beginning: 'Superior liber, Domino prestante', followed by capitula (f. 5r). ff. 5v-52r: Cassiodorus, Institutiones , book 2 ( De Artibus ac Disciplinis Liberalium Litterarum ); De Grammatica , imperfect (ff. 5v-7v); De Rhetorica (ff. 7v-14v); De Dialectica (ff. 14v-31v); De Arithmetica (ff. 31v-38v); De Musica (ff. 38v-44r); De geometria (ff. 44r-46r); De astronomia (ff. 46r-49r) ending with the conclusion of book 2 (ff. 49r-52r): 'incipient esse breves quos prius aestimavimus longiores. Cassiodori Senatoris Liber Institutionum Humanarum Rerum. Explicit'. f. 53r: Excerpts from an Antiphonal, a chant with musical notations, beginning: 'Pretiosa Alleluia' written by a late 10th-century hand, followed by two-lines hymn with musical notations written by a different but contemporary hand, beginning: 'O quam felices'. ff. 53v-55r: Helisachar, Epistola ad Nibridium Archiepiscopum Narbonensem (Epistle to Nebridius, archbishop of Narbonne), describes the revision of the Office antiphonal made by Helisachar, chancellor (from 808-817) of King Louis the Pious (reigned 814-840), written by a late 10th-century hand. ff. 55v-69r: A list of verbs. ff. 70r-76v: Smaragdus, Liber in Partibus Donati . Decoration:Diagrams relating to the seven liberal arts decorated with Donatus's bust (f. 12r), a winged personification of Grammar (f. 25v), a monk (f. 39v), animals, such as birds, a lamb, lions, a bull, a goat, a stag, dogs, a female wolf, and fish, or stylised flowers, columns, vases, plants or a rudder wheel, in colours and personifying disciplines and their different parts (ff. 8r, 8v, 10r-11r, 12r, 15v, 17r-18r, 19r-21v, 22v, 25v-26r, 28r, 30v, 32v, 33v-34r, 36v-37r, 39v-40v, 41v, 45v, 47r). Initials and rubrics in silver, showing the red ground preparation, or red, often oxidised.
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