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Harley MS 5697

Record Id:

040-001613810

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-001613810

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001481.0x00037c

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Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 5697

Title:

Various works of Ιoannes Chortasmenos, Metropolites of Selymbria

Scope & Content:

Various works of Ioannes Chortasmenos, Metropolites of Selymbria.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Greek Manuscripts
Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-001613810

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 5697 : Various works of Ιoannes Chortasmenos, Metropolites of Selymbria

Contains:

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Hierarchy:

032-002045828[5700]/040-001613810

Container:

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

138 folios.

Digitised Content:

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Languages:

Greek, Ancient

Scripts:

Greek

Start Date:

1400

End Date:

1449

Date Range:

1st half of the 15th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Paper.

Dimensions: 295 x 215 (Text Space: 235 x 160) mm.

Foliation: ff. 138 + iii (blank leaves). Gatherings (i-xi⁸, xii¹⁺⁸, xiii⁶, xiv⁸, xv⁶, xvi⁸, xvii¹², xviii⁴) numbered ξʹ-οζʹ. Into the bifolium formed by ff. 111 and 116 two more bifolia have been inserted, viz. ff. 112+115, 113+114.

Ruling: 1 column, 39 lines.

Binding: Covers of gilt-tooled red morocco in 'Harleian' style by Chapman, pasted inside British Museum binding of half red leather (1966).

Script: Scribe of ff. 1r-83r, 89v, 104r-134v identified as Cardinal Johannes Bessarion (Repertorium I 41).

Custodial History:

Owned by Bessarion (Greek ex-libris, f. 1r; Fontes p. 72; No. 397 in 1468 inventory; No. 18 in 1474 inventory) and the Farnese Library, Rome (Pernot 'Nouveaux MSS farnésiens' p. 706). Purchased for the Harleian Library from Nathaniel Noel, 18 January 1723/4 (f. 1r; Diary p. 231 n. 8; Fontes p. 254).

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.

Information About Copies:

Complete digital coverage available for this manuscript, see Digitised Manuscripts [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Harley_MS_5697].

Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols, London 1808-1812, p. 289.

Procli Diadochi Lycii Institutio physica, ed. A. Ritzenfeld, Leipzig 1912, p. xv.

H. Rabe, Ioannis Sardiani Commentarium in Aphthonium (Rhetores graeci, xv) Leipzig 1928, pp. xv-xvi.

H. Rabe, Prolegomenon Sylloge (Rhetores graeci, xiv) Leipzig 1931, pp. l, lxix.

C. E. Wright and R. C. Wright, The Diary of Humphrey Wanley 1715-1726, 2 vols, London 1966, p. 231.

H. Hunger, 'Johannes Chortasmenos (ca. 1370-ca. 1436/37). Briefe, Gedichte und kleine Schriften. Einleitung, Regesten, Prosopographie, Text', Wiener Byzantinische Studien 7 (1969), pp. 29-30, 32-33.

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. 254.

P. Moraux, Aristoteles Graecus. Die griechischen Manuskripte des Aristoteles (Peripatoi 8), Berlin 1976, pp. 432-433.

L. Labowsky, Bessarion's Library and the Biblioteca Marciana (Sussidi eruditi, 31) Rome 1979, p. 485.

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. 41.

The British Library Summary Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts, I, London 1999, p. 176

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)