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Harley MS 5790
- Record Id:
- 040-001613978
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-001613978
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001481.0x0003c8
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 5790
- Title:
- Four Gospels, each preceded by a table of capitula. Greg.-Aland 448; Scrivener, l. 4 evan. 448; von Soden ε 509.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Harley Collection - Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-001613978", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 5790: Four Gospels, each preceded by a table of capitula. Greg.-Aland 448; Scrivener, l. 4 evan. 448; von Soden ε 509." , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "041-001613979", "parent" : "040-001613978", "text" : "Harley MS 5790, ff 4-84v: Matthew." },{ "id" : "041-001613980", "parent" : "040-001613978", "text" : "Harley MS 5790, ff 88-138: Mark." },{ "id" : "041-001613981", "parent" : "040-001613978", "text" : "Harley MS 5790, ff 143-230: Luke." },{ "id" : "041-001613982", "parent" : "040-001613978", "text" : "Harley MS 5790, ff 233-298: John." }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-001613978 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 5790 : Four Gospels, each preceded by a table of capitula. Greg.-Aland 448; Scrivener, l. 4 evan. 448; von Soden ε 509. - Contains:
- Harley MS 5790, ff 4-84v : Matthew.
Harley MS 5790, ff 88-138 : Mark.
Harley MS 5790, ff 143-230 : Luke.
Harley MS 5790, ff 233-298 : John.
Click here to View / search full list of parts of Harley MS 5790 - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[5793]/040-001613978
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 4 items
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Harley_MS_5790 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 1478
- End Date:
- 1478
- Date Range:
- 25 Apr 1478
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Parchment. ff. 299. 310 x 215 (185 x 105) mm. Ruling Leroy 31D1a, 22 lines. Iluminated evangelist portraits (ff. 87v, 142v, 232v) and marginal figures (ff. 88, 143, 233). Illuminated historiated headpieces and decorated initials (ff. 4, 88, 143, 233). B.M. binding of blind-tooled purple morocco over wooden boards (late 19th cent.).
Written by Ioannes Rhosos at Rome (colophon, f. 299; Repertorium I 178) for Cardinal Francesco Gonzaga (d.1483) (Fontes p.167).
- Custodial History:
- Owned by Giovanni Pietro Arrivabene (f. 1v; Fontes p.54). Purchased for the Harleian Library from Nathaniel Noel, 20 Jan. 1721/2 (f. 2; Diary p.138 n.8; Fontes p.254).
- Publications:
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- A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols, London 1808-1812, p.296;
- J. O. Westwood, Palaeographia Sacra Pictoria, London 1843-1845, pl.5;
- H. Omont, 'Notes sur les manuscrits grecs du British Museum', Bibliothèque de l'École des Chartes xlv (1884) pp.314-350, 584. pp.324-325, 341;
- J. A. Herbert, Illuminated Manuscripts, London 1911, p.65;
- Codici Gonzaghesi. La biblioteca di Gonzaga da Luigi ad Isabella, ed. U. Meroni, Mantua 1966, p.37;
- J. J. G. Alexander and A. C. de la Mare, The Italian Manuscripts of Major J. R. Abbey, London 1969, p.109;
- Splendours of the Gonzaga, ed. D. Chambers and J. Martineau, London 1981, No.26;
- P. L. Heyworth, Letters of Humfrey Wanley, Paleographer, Anglo-Saxonist, Librarian, 1672-1726, Oxford 1989 p.443;
- 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.152;
- D. S. Chambers, A Renaissance Cardinal and his Worldly Goods: The Will and Inventory of Francesco Gonzaga (1444-1483) (Warburg Institute Surveys and Texts xx), London 1992, pp.61-62, 124 n.153;
- The Painted Page. Italian Renaissance Book Illumination 1450-1550, ed. J. J. G. Alexander, Munich/New York 1994, p.106.
- Immaculada Perez Martin, 'The Escorial Akathistos', Italia medioevale e umanistica, 52 (2011), 227-62 (p. 250, n. 77).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)