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Harley MS 5600
- Record Id:
- 040-001613287
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-001613287
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001481.0x00030e
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100186540326.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 5600
- Title:
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Homer, Iliad (TLG 0012.001), with prefatory material
- Scope & Content:
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Homer, Iliad (TLG 0012.001), with prefatory material consisting of the Herodotean life of Homer, hypotheses for each book of the Iliad, and verses on Homer.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Harley Collection - Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-001613287", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 5600: Homer, Iliad (TLG 0012.001), with prefatory material" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "041-001613288", "parent" : "040-001613287", "text" : "Harley MS 5600, ff 1-6v: Vita Homeri Herodotea (TLG 1805.001), tit. Ἐξήγησις περὶ τῆς τοῦ ῾Ομήρου γενέσιος…" },{ "id" : "041-001613289", "parent" : "040-001613287", "text" : "Harley MS 5600, ff 6v-14r: Hypothesis for each book of the Iliad, ff 6v-13r, followed by Περὶ τῶν ἐν τοῖς στίχοις παθῶν,…" },{ "id" : "041-001613292", "parent" : "040-001613287", "text" : "Harley MS 5600, ff 16r-239r: Homer, Iliad (TLG 0012.001)." }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-001613287 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 5600 : Homer, Iliad (TLG 0012.001), with prefatory material - Contains:
- Harley MS 5600, ff 1-6v : Vita Homeri Herodotea (TLG 1805.001), tit. Ἐξήγησις περὶ τῆς τοῦ ῾Ομήρου…
Harley MS 5600, ff 6v-14r : Hypothesis for each book of the Iliad, ff 6v-13r, followed by Περὶ τῶν ἐν τοῖς στίχοις…
Harley MS 5600, ff 16r-239r : Homer, Iliad (TLG 0012.001).
Click here to View / search full list of parts of Harley MS 5600 - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[5602]/040-001613287
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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239 folios
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100186540326.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 1466
- End Date:
- 1466
- Date Range:
- 16 May 1466
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Foliation: ff. 2* + 239 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end). Old foliation αʹ-σκγʹ in red. f 14 is a half sheet. f 193 has been trimmed by about a third on the right margin.
Dimensions: 335 x 225 mm.
Ruling: 222 x 105 mm. Leroy D 31D1a, 36 lines per page.
Collation: α10 β5 α-κα10 κβ8 κγ6
Binding: British Museum. Marbled endpapers; gilt edges. Rebound in 1922.
Decoration: Attributed to Antonio de Niccolo. Full-page frontispiece in colours and gold of Homer seated in a landscape, encircled by a laurel wreath with the eight muses in medallions and, in the four corners, subsidiary medallions of four bearded figures holding books (15v). Full white vine border in colours and gold, inhabited by birds, putti, an urn, a miniature of Hercules and a centaur, with a title piece flanked by putti, a large white vine initial and, in the lower margin, a medallion with an effaced coat of arms (f 16r). 25 white vine initials in colours and gold (ff 1r, 16r, 24v, 37r, 43v, 51v, 64r, 71v, 78v, 86v, 96v, 105r, 117r, 123v, 135v, 143r, 153v, 166r, 176v, 185v, 191v, 198v, 207v, 215r, 227v). Large initials in red with penwork decoration. Head and tail pieces in red and/or yellow with penwork decoration. Rubrics, capitals, and running headers in red.
Scribe: Ioannes Rhosos (colophon, f 239r; Repertorium 1A, no. 178).
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Italy, Central (Florence).
Provenance:
Written in Florence by Ioannes Rhosos of Crete on 16 May 1466: Greek colophon (f 239r).
Niccolò Tornabuoni (d. 1598), Bishop of Borgo San Sepolcro (el. 1560): offset inscription, 'Nicolai Tornabonis episcopi', f [i verso].
John Gibson (fl. 1720-1726), dealer; sold to Harley on 13 September 1722 (see Diary 1966 p. 145, n. 3, p. 159, n. 2; Wright 1972).
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 as usual by their librarian, Humfrey Wanley '13 die mensis Septembris A.D., 1722', f [i recto].
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, Central (Florence).
- Information About Copies:
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Complete digital coverage available for this manuscript; see Digitised Manuscripts [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Harley_MS_5600].
Select digital coverage available on the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts [http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=7356&CollID=8&NStart=5600].
- Publications:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols, London 1808-12, II (1808), p. 280, no. 5600.
H. Omont, 'Notes sur les manuscrits grecs du British Museum', Bibliothèque de l’École des Chartes 45 (1884) pp. 314-50 (p. 341).
E. M. Thompson, 'Catalogue of Classical Manuscripts', Classical Review 2 (1888) pp. 102-4 (p. 103, no. 8).
A. Ludwich, Beiträge zur Homerischen Handschriftenkunde (Sonderabdruck aus Jahrbuch für classischen Philologie Supplementband 27), 1900, Ed.
Homeri Ilias, ed. by T. W. Allen, 3 vols, Oxford 1931, I, pp.12-13, 102-103, 168 (Bm).
The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by C. E. Wright and R. C. Wright, 2 vols, London 1966, I: 1715-1723, p. 145 n. 3.
C. E. Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1972, p. 162.
C. E. Wright, 'Manuscripts of Italian Provenance in the Harleian Collection in the British Museum: Their Sources, Associations and Channels of Acquisition', in Cultural Aspects of the Italian Renaissance. Essays in Honour of Paul Oskar Kristeller, ed. by C. H. Clough, Manchester 1976, pp. 462-84 (pp. 465-66).
R. Barbour, Greek Literary Hands A.D. 400-1600, Oxford 1981, p. 16.E. Gamillscheg and D. Harlfinger, Repertorium der griechischen Kopisten 800-1600, 1: Grossbritannien (Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Byzantinistik 3.1), 3 vols, Vienna 1981.
Miniatura fiorentina del Rinascimento, 1440-1525: un primo censimento, 2 vols, ed. by A. Garzelli, [Florence] 1985, II, pl. 636.
The British Library Summary Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts, I, London 1999, p. 126.
M. Vasiloudi, Vita Homeri Herodotea: Textgeschichte, Edition, Übersetzung (Beiträge zur Altertumskunde 256), Berlin 2013, p. 22 (H).
- Exhibitions:
- Greek Manuscripts, (online), 18 September 2016-
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)