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Harley MS 2724

Record Id:

040-002048555

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002048555

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x0003e6

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 2724

Title:

Q. Horatius Flaccus (Horace), Works, with added texts regarding Horace's poetry and life

Scope & Content:

Six works by the Roman poet Q. Horatius Flaccus (Horace):

ff. 2r-46r: Carmina.

ff. 47r-54v: Ars Poetica.

ff. 55r-66r: Epodae.

ff. 66r-67r: Carmen saeculare.

ff. 67v-94v: Epistulae.

ff. 94v-130r Sermones.

ff. 130r-130v: Vita Horatii attributed to Helenius Acro, and Servius, De metris Horatii.

ff. 130v: Miscellaneous notes on mythology.

f. 131r: Verses, incipit: 'Flante cum iram Zephiro solutam'.

f. 131v: Commentary on Martianus Capella.

ff. 132r-135v: Miscellaneous texts on the life and works of Horace.

Decoration: Large initials in red. Rubrics in red.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002048555

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 2724 : Q. Horatius Flaccus (Horace), Works, with added texts regarding Horace's poetry and life

Contains:

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Hierarchy:

032-002045828[2725]/040-002048555

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1000

End Date:

1099

Date Range:

11th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 245 x 200 mm (text space: 185 x 100 mm).

Foliation: ff. 136 (+ 6 unfoliated paper flyleaves: 3 at the beginning and 3 at the end).

Script: Caroline minuscule.

Binding: Post-1600 'Harleian' binding of gold-tooled red leather; rebacked; preserving part of the former spine inside the upper cover; marbled endpapers; gilt edges.

Custodial History:

Origin:

Germany.

Provenance:

Effaced ownership (?) inscription (f. 1r).

Nicholas of Cusa [Nicholaus von Kues, or Nicholas Cusanus] (b. 1401, d. 1464), theologian, Bishop of Brixen in Tyrol in 1450 and Cardinal in 1449, founder of the hospital of St Nicholas at Cues on the Mosel; donated his entire library to the hospital in his last will dated 6 August 1464: belonged to him according to Humfrey Wanley (see Diary and Haubst 1963).

Nathaniel Noel (fl. 1681, d. c. 1753), bookseller employed by Edward Harley for buying books and manuscripts chiefly on the Continent: purchased from him for Edward Harley by Wanley for '£31. 10s. 0d' (Diary).

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, inscribed by their librarian, Humfrey Wanley '18 die mensis Januarij, A.D. 1723/4.' (f. 1r).

Edward Harley bequeathed the library to his widow, Henrietta, née Cavendish 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.

Administrative Context:

Germany

Information About Copies:

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Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), II (1808), no. 2724.

Berthold L. Ullman, 'Manuscripts of Nicholas of Cues', Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies, 13 (1938), 194-97 (p. 194).

Herbert Thoma, ‘Altdeutsches aus Londer Hss’, Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und Literatur, 73 (1951), pp. 243-45, 254.

Rudolf Haubst, 'Kritisches Verzeichnis der Londoner Handschriften aus dem Besitz des Nikolaus von Kues', Mitteilungen und Forschungsbeiträge der Cusanus-Gesellschaft, 3 (1963), pp. 17-18, 22-23, 57-61.

The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by C. E. Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: The Bibliographical Society, 1966), II: 1722-1726, pp. 235, 237.

Cyril E. Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 120, 121, 254.

B. Munk Olsen, L’Étude des auteurs classiques latins aux XIe et XIIe siècles, 3 vols (Paris: Centre national de la recherche scientifique, 1982-1989), I, p. 461 no. C. 90.

Hermann J. Hallauer, 'Habent sua fata libelli. Von der Mosel zur Themse: Handschriften des St. Nikolaus-Hospitals in der Bibliotheca Harleiana', Mitteilungen und Forschungsbeiträge der Cusanus-Gesellshaft, 17 (1986), 21-56 (pp. 36 n. 112, 42).

Rolf Bergmann and Stefanie Stricker, Katalog der althochdeutschen und altsächsischen Glossenhandschriften, 6 vols (Berlin: Walter De Gruyter, 2005), II, pp. 881-83 no. 415 [with further bibliography].

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

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