Harleian Collection

The Harleian Collection is a collection of manuscripts (* 1661 † 1724) and his son Edward ( 1689-1741 ) was compiled by the British statesman Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer. In addition to the Cotton MSS and the Sloane MSS include the Harley MSS of the founding stock of the British Museum. They were purchased in 1753 by the Parliament.

The Harleian Collection and the other existing holdings of the library of the British Museum are now part of the British Library was opened in 1998. Among the known manuscripts, the Historia Brittonum ( Harley 3859 ), Harley Latin Gospels ( Harley 1775), a program written in uncial of Gospels from the 6th century, and at the court of Roger II formed in 1150 in Palermo trilingual Psalter include ( Harley 5786 ). In the left of the three columns of the Greek text is in the version of the Septuagint, in the middle of the Latin text in the translation of Jerome, and the right column shows the Arabic translation of the Melkite deacon Abu'l -Fath ' Abdall -h ibn al - Fadl ibn ' Abdall -h al - Mutr -n al - Antaki from Antioch in the 11th century.