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Harley MS 5599

Record Id:

040-001613277

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-001613277

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001481.0x00030d

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 5599

Title:

Aristotle, various works, with Isagoge of Porphyrius

Scope & Content:

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Greek Manuscripts
Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-001613277

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 5599 : Aristotle, various works, with Isagoge of Porphyrius

Contains:

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Hierarchy:

032-002045828[5601]/040-001613277

Container:

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

209 folios.

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Languages:

Greek, Ancient

Scripts:

Greek

Start Date:

1450

End Date:

1499

Date Range:

2nd half of the 15th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Paper. Watermarks: Arrows (ff. 1r-209v) and Hills (ff. 211r-218v).

Dimensions: 335 x 230 (Text Space: 225 x 135) mm.; ff. 211r-218v: 315 x 210 (190 x 110) mm.

Foliation: ff. 218. Gatherings of 10, numbered αʹ-καʹ (ff. 1-209), with catchwords.

Ruling: Ruling of ff. 1r-209v on verso, Leroy D 21D1b, 30 lines; 25 lines on ff. 211r-218v.

Decoration: Red titles and headpieces.

Binding: British Museum binding (1966).

Script: Scribe of ff. 1r-209v is Alphonsos Doursos (cypher f. 209; Repertorium I 9). ff. 211r-218v in a late 15th century hand.

Custodial History:

Provenance:

Owned by Βαλέριος ὁ ἀγαθὸς (f. 210v) [possibly Cardinal Augustin Valerio (1530-1606)] and the Jesuit College, Agen (Fontes p. 47).

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 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.

Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols, London 1808-1812, p. 280.

E. M. Thompson, 'Catalogue of Classical Manuscripts', Classical Review 2 (1888), pp. 102-104, 171-174; 3 (1889), pp. 149-155, 440-445, p. 441 No. 119.

C. E. Wright, Fontes Harleiani. A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts preserved in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1972, p. 47.

P. Moraux, Aristoteles Graecus. Die griechischen Manuskripte des Aristoteles (Peripatoi 8), Berlin 1976, pp. 425-427.

E. Gamillscheg and D. Harlfinger, Repertorium der griechischen Kopisten 800-1600, 1: Grossbritannien (Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Byzantinistik 3.1), 3 vols, Vienna 1981, p. 9.

The British Library Summary Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts, I, London 1999, pp. 125-126.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Aristotle, philosopher, 384 BC-322 BC
Doursos, Alphonsos, scribe, fl 2nd half of the 15th century