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Add MS 32494
- Record Id:
- 032-002026533
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002026533
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000054.0x0002e5
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100155062193.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 32494
- Title:
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Gabriel Harvey's commonplace book
- Scope & Content:
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ff. 1r–52v: Gabriel Harvey's commonplace book. A closely written octavo volume, it contains extracts from ancient and contemporary authors (such as Cicero and Sir Hugh Platt), and observations in Latin, English, Italian and Greek on a variety of topics.
These include wisdom (f. 26r, 'no wiseman offendith twice in on thing'); happiness ('happy is he, that is seruant to the happy'), and love (f. 25v, 'he rulith most in Venus Court, that servith his Lady best.')
f. 1r: note by James Crossley, a former owner.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-002026533", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Add MS 32494: Gabriel Harvey's commonplace book" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002026533
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002026533
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100155062193.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English
Greek, Ancient
Italian
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1600
- End Date:
- 1640
- Date Range:
- Early 17th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 148 x 122 mm.
Foliation: ff. 52 + 8 (f. i early modern endleaf; another unfoliated endleaf, and 6 modern endleaves).
Binding: British Museum binding.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
James Crossley (1800–1883), author and book collector (his note about the volume is on f. 1r).
Purchased by the British Museum from Sotheby's, 20 June 1885 (Crossley sale), lot 3002.
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum, 1882–1887 (London: British Museum Trustees, 1889), p. 133.
CELM, http://www.celm-ms.org.uk/authors/harveygabriel.html
G. C. Moore Smith, Gabriel Harvey's Marginalia (Stratford-upon-Avon: Shakespeare Head Press, 1913), pp. 87–109.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)