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Harley MS 4913

Record Id:

040-001612992

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-001612992

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001481.0x0002c6

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 4913

Title:

Miscellany of humanistic texts

Scope & Content:

Miscellany of humanistic texts, mostly Latin, including speeches and bulls of Pius II, works by Porcelius and Flavio Biondo, extracts from Ovid and a Maximos Planoudes' translation into Greek of Macrobius' Commentary on Cicero's Somnium Scipionis.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Greek Manuscripts
Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-001612992

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 4913 : Miscellany of humanistic texts

Contains:

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Hierarchy:

032-002045828[4913]/040-001612992

Container:

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

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

119 folios

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Greek, Ancient
Latin

Scripts:

Greek
Latin

Start Date:

1450

End Date:

1474

Date Range:

3rd quarter of the 15th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Paper (w.m. (ff 92-110) Letter S cf. Briquet 9057, Harlfinger Lettre 54) and (ff 114-119) parchment.

Foliation: ff 119.

Dimensions: 285 x 205 mm (ff 1-113); 285 x 185 mm (ff 114-119). Text block (ff 92-110) 185 x 125 mm.

Ruling: (ff 92-110) Leroy 20D1, 18 lines.

Binding: British Museum binding of mottled brown calf (18th century).

Several scribes, one of whom is responsible only for ff 92v-110v.

Custodial History:

Origin: Italy.

Provenance:

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.

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

Italy.

Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols, London 1808-1812, iii, pp. 219-220.

C. M. Briquet, Les Filigranes, 4 vols, Geneva, etc. 1907 (repr. Amsterdam 1965).

D. and J. Harlfinger, Wasserzeichen aus griechischen Handschriften, I-II, Berlin 1974-1980.

P. O. Kristeller, Iter Italicum. A Finding List of Uncatalogued or Incompletely Catalogued Humanistic Manuscripts of the Renaissance in Italian and other Libraries, IV (Alia Itinera II): Great Britain to Spain, Leiden 1989, p. 181.

The British Library Summary Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts, I, London 1999, pp. 98-99.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)