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Add MS 19553
- Record Id:
- 032-002096195
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002096195
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000041.0x0001c5
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165145529.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 19553
- Title:
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Isocrates Ad Nicolem de regno; Lucian, De calumnia
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
Works by Isocrates and Lucian translated by Johannes Boerius or Giovanni Battista Boerio (b., c. 1450, d. before 1530), astrologist and physician to Henry VII, for Prince Henry, the future Henry VIII: his dedication on f. 1r, 'Illustrissimo Principi Henrico Serenissimi Regis Anglorun filio Ioan[n]es Borrius', and at the end, 'Ad eundem Illustriccimum Angliae Principem Joannis Boerii Endecasyllabum phalecium' (f. 36v). The scribe has been identified as Pierantonio Sallando of Reggio Emilio (fl. 1490-1540), professor at Bologna university, who also copied Yates Thompson MS 29.
ff 1r-2v: Preface;
ff. 3r-17v: Isocrates, Ad Nicolem de regno;
ff. 19r-36v: Lucian, De calumnia.
On the lower paste-down (f. iii recto) are the opening lines of Psalm 27 in Latin, followed by a note in English regarding a payment to Thomas Cromwell..
Decoration:
Two large initials in colours and gold with full scatter borders in colours on gold grounds, both the arms of Henry VII (and of Henry VIII in the early years of his reign). The border on f. 3r includes mythical beasts, peacocks, antique medallions, one with the profile of Marcus Agrippa, and flowers and fruit. The border on f. 19r has the arms supported by the dragon and greyhound, and in the border, phoenixes and leopards, and numerous all'antica elements such as vases, cornucopia, and jewels with foliate motifs. One framed initial in gold on a blue ground and a lozenge decorated with acanthus and jewels in colours on a gold ground. Initials and rubrics in gold (f. 1r).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002096195
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002096195
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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Parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100165145529.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1500
- End Date:
- 1510
- Date Range:
- c 1505
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
- Restrictions to access apply please consult British Library staff
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- User Conditions:
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Letter of introduction required to use this manuscript.
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 210 x 150 mm (text space: 135mm x 90 mm).
Foliation: ff. iii + 37 (ff. i and iii are parchment paste-downs and f. ii is a parchment flyleaf).
Script: Humanistic.
Binding: Pre-1600. Original binding of wooden boards, covered with flowered silk. Seven shields with arms drawn on the upper cover in the 16th or 17th century.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Italy, N. (Bologna).
Provenance:
King Henry VIII of England (b.1491, d.1547), translated for him by Johannes Boerius and copied for him in Italy by Pierantonio Sallando and presented to him in 1507: a note on f. ii recto (J. B. Trapp, 'The Humanist Book' (1999)). Inscribed on f. iii in a sixteenth-century secretary hand, 'Well belovyde we grete you well and will commaunde yowe incontinent upon the sight hereof ye delyv[er] or Cause to be delyv[er]ed unto o[ur] right trusty and wellbelovyd Counsaylo[r] Syr Thomas Cromwell Knyghte Lorde Cromwell A hundredth two th[ou]s[and] and fyfte poundes to be taken of o[ur] gyft At our receyte at Westm[inster]'.
Unidentified owner, in the anonymous sale, Sotheby's, 3 February 1853, lot 1284: a note on f. i recto; bought by Joseph Lilly, bookseller, and sold to the British Museum, 11 June 1853 for £12.12s.
- Information About Copies:
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Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts.
- Publications:
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The British Museum Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts, 1848-1853 (London: British Museum, 1868), p. 251.
'The Translations of Lucian', ed. by C.R. Thompson, Révue belge de philologie et d'histoire, 18 (1939), 855-881 (p. 877, n. 2).
James Wardrop, ‘Pierantonio Sallando and Girolamo Pagliorolo, Scribes to Giovanni II Bentivoglio’, Signature, 2 (1946), pp. 15-16, 28, fig. 14.
Silvana Menchi, 'Boerio, Giovanni Battista', in Dizionario-Biografico degli Italiani,11 (1969), online at: http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/giovanni-battista-boerio_(Dizionario-Biografico) [accessed 17.11.2017].
J. J. G. Alexander, 'Foreign Illuminators and Illuminated Manuscripts, in The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, 6 vols (Cambridge: University Press, 1999-2011), III, 1400-1557 (1999), ed. by Lotte Hellinga and J.B. Trapp, pp. 47-64 (p. 55).
J. B. Trapp, 'The Humanist Book', in The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, 6 vols (Cambridge: University Press, 1999-2011), III, 1400-1557 (1999), ed. by Lotte Hellinga and J.B. Trapp, pp. 285-315 (p. 313).
Paul Botley, Latin translation in the Renaissance: the theory and practice of Leonardo Bruni, Giannozzo Manetti and Desiderius Erasmus (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), p. 172, n. 31.
Aysha Pollnitz, Princely education in early modern Britain (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015), pp. 59-60.
James Carley and Agnes Juhasz-Ormsby, 'Survey of Henrician Humanism', in The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English literature, ed. by Rita Copeland, 5 vols (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012- ), I, 800-1558 (2016), pp. 515-40 (p. 538, n. 63).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)