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Harley MS 6874
- Record Id:
- 040-001614195
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-001614195
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001515.0x000054
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6874
- Title:
- Aristotle, Politics, imperfect
- Scope & Content:
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Aristotle, Politics, imperfect
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Harley Collection - Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-001614195", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 6874: Aristotle, Politics, imperfect" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "041-001614196", "parent" : "040-001614195", "text" : "Harley MS 6874, f i: Blank palimpsest leaf." },{ "id" : "041-001614197", "parent" : "040-001614195", "text" : "Harley MS 6874, ff 1-12: Aristotle, Politica Imperfect, containing (ff. 1-10v) Book I.1-13, expl. (1260a.26) τὸ ὀρθοπραγεῖν…" },{ "id" : "041-001614198", "parent" : "040-001614195", "text" : "Harley MS 6874, f 13: Blank ruled leaf." }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-001614195 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 6874 : Aristotle, Politics, imperfect - Contains:
- Harley MS 6874, f i : Blank palimpsest leaf.
Harley MS 6874, ff 1-12 : Aristotle, Politica Imperfect, containing (ff. 1-10v) Book I.1-13, expl. (1260a.26) τὸ ὀρθοπραγεῖν…
Harley MS 6874, f 13 : Blank ruled leaf.
Click here to View / search full list of parts of Harley MS 6874 - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[6882]/040-001614195
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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13 folios.
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Harley_MS_6874 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 1400
- End Date:
- 1424
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 225 x 150 (Text Space: 150 x 90) mm.
Foliation: ff. i + 13.
Ruling: Leroy P3c 20D1, 31 lines. 30 lines written.
Binding: British Museum binding of half red leather (1968). Previously, before 1967, bound with Harley 399.
Script: Scribe and first owner identified as Zomino da Pistoia (Sozomenus Pistoriensis) (Repertorium I 371; de la Mare p. 103 No. 19).
- Custodial History:
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Provenance:
First owner identified as Zomino da Pistoia (Sozomenus Pistoriensis) (Repertorium I 371; de la Mare p. 103 No. 19).
Purchased, when together with Harley 6512, for the Harleian Library from John Gibson, 22 June 1726 (f. 1r; Diary p. 340 n. 10; Fontes p. 162).
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_6874].
- Publications:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols, London 1808-1812, p. 444.
E. M. Thompson, 'Catalogue of Classical Manuscripts', Classical Review 2 (1888), pp. 102-104, 171-174; 3 (1889), pp. 149-155, 440-445, 441 No. 128.
C. E. Wright and R. C. Wright, The Diary of Humphrey Wanley 1715-1726, 2 vols, London 1966, p. 340 n. 10.
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. 162.
A. C. de la Mare, The Handwriting of the Italian Humanists, vol. I.1, Oxford 1973, p. 103 No. 19.
P. Moraux, Aristoteles Graecus. Die griechischen Manuskripte des Aristoteles (Peripatoi 8), Berlin 1976, pp. 441-442.
E. Gamillscheg and D. Harlfinger, Repertorium der griechischen Kopisten 800-1600, 1: Grossbritannien (Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Byzantinistik 3.1), 3 vols, Vienna 1981, No. 371.
The British Library Summary Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts, I, London 1999, p. 231.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)