Capitularia - Edition of the Frankish Capitularies

London, British Library, Harley 5431

Manuscript description according to Mordek

Repository
London
British Library
Harley 5431, foll. 4-126
Siglum L5
Digital image available at British Library
Origin and history
Origin:

Um 1000; wohl Kloster St. Augustin, Canterbury (anders H. Turner nach Semmler, CCM 1, S. 506: Frankreich).

Provenance:

Alte Signatur in Canterbury: D. XIIII G. I.

Physical description
Material: Pergament
Number: Insgesamt 271 foll. (im zweiten Teil eine spätmittelalterliche Hs. mit Werken Bernhards von Clairvaux u. a.). Unser Teil: 123 foll. (4-126), ungewöhnliches Format.
Size: 230 × 85 mm
Body text: ca. 152 × 50 mm
Lines: 20
Columns: 1
Contents
Note:

Die Verbindung des Capitulare monasticum III mit dem Memoriale qualiter und Ansegis 2, 33 im Anschluß an die Benediktregel kennzeichnet auch die englischen Hss. des endenden 10. bzw. 11. Jahrhunderts Cambridge 57, London Cott. Tiberius A. III und Cott. Titus A. IV.

  • 107r-114r
    I-LXXII Capitulare monasticum III (a. 818/819?), ohne cc. 26, 42, 67, 75 und 76: ANNO AB INCARNATIONE DOMINI NOSTRI iesu christi nongentesimo septimo decimo - conseruari decreuerunt. Ut ABBATES MOX VT AD monasteria sua remeauerint - in ipsorum maneat arbitrio (Semmler 1963h, S. 515-535, Sigle G3; stärker nach Benedictus Levita: MGH Capit. 1, Nr. 170, S. 344-348); fol. 107r oben von einer Hand des 13. Jh. nachgetragen: statuta antiqua edita rome anno christi nongentesimo septimo decimo. Verwandte Hss. (Redaktion III) siehe bei Cod. Paris Lat. 1535.

  • 114r-126v
    Memoriale qualiter (CCM 1, S. 229-261).

  • 126v
    LVDOVVICVS IMPERA (die nächsten Zeilen sind radiert; danach Blattverlust?) (einstiger Text wohl wie in Cod. London Cott. Titus A. IV); links nachgetragen großes grünes F.

Bibliography
References:
  • M. R. James, The ancient libraries of Canterbury and Dover (Cambridge 1903), S. 246, Nr. 462, S. 517
  • F. Wormald, Decorated Initials in English Manuscripts from AD 900 to 1100 (Archaeologia or Miscellaneous Tracts relating to Antiquity, 2nd ser., 91, London 1945), S. 120
  • D. T. Rice, English Art 871-1100 (Oxford 1952), S. 206
  • N. R. Ker, A Catalogue of Manuscripts containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford 1957), S. 263
  • Morgand 1963, S. 182, 204 ff.
  • Semmler 1963h, 506, 512-513
  • Ker 1964, S. 44
  • C. E. Wright, Fontes Harleiani (London 1972), S. 95, 239
  • E. Temple, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts 900-1066 (A Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Islands 2, London 1976), S. 62 Nr. 38 (mit älterer Literatur)
  • CSEL 75, S. LXII.
  • Th. H. Ohlgren (u. a.), Insular and Anglo-Saxon Illuminated Manuscripts. An Iconographic Catalogue c. A. D. 625 to 1100 (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities [631], New York - London 1986), S. 102-103 Nr. 143.
Catalogues:
  • Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum 3 (London 1808), S. 267-268
Images:
  • The New Palaeographical Society. Facsimiles of Ancient Manuscripts, ed. E. M. Thompson - G. F. Warner u. a., Ser. II, Bd. 1 (London 1913), Tab. 63 (foll. 7r, 75r, 118v)
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Notes

How to cite
London, British Library, Harley 5431, in: Capitularia. Edition of the Frankish Capitularies, ed. by Karl Ubl and collaborators, Cologne 2014 ff. URL: https://capitularia.uni-koeln.de/en/mss/london-bl-harley-5431/ (accessed on May 17, 2025)
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Key
Symbols used Meaning
· ˙ : .' /
·,· :/ , ; ∴		 Punctuation (as used in the mss.)
* Footnote (text of note appears on mouseover)
Bold type (words, phrases) Rubrics, headings; differently rendered by using another font or other visual features
Bold type (single letters) Initials
Red Use of coloured ink (of any kind)
[xyz] Uncertain reading, text hard to decipher
[…] Illegible text. The number of dots indicates the (estimated) number of characters missing
††† Deleted text. The number of crosses indicates the (estimated) number of characters missing
[†] Place holder for deleted, non-reconstructable passages (without indication of estimated number of characters missing)
- - - Space left blank intentionally within a line in the ms.
[!] sic
| Line break
[BK 139 c. 1] Reference to the Boretius/Krause edition
[fol. 123r], [p. 123] Page break (fol. or p.) or column break in the ms.
Glossation
Annotation signs (e.g. nota signs)