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Harley MS 4241
- Record Id:
- 040-001615347
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-001615347
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001515.0x000375
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 4241
- Title:
- Aristotle, Metaphysica
- Scope & Content:
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Aristotle, Metaphysica.
Decoration:
Initials in red or blue at the beginning of chapters.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
Harley Science Project - Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-001615347", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 4241: Aristotle, Metaphysica" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-001615347 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 4241 : Aristotle, Metaphysica - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[4234]/040-001615347
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 88 folios.
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Harley_MS_4241 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1445
- End Date:
- 1464
- Date Range:
- c 1450-1464
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment codex.
Dimensions: 350 x 240 mm (text space: 230 x 145 mm).
Foliation: ff. x + 1* + 88
Script: Humanistic minuscule; German imitation of Italian script.
Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house binding.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Germany.
Provenance:
Nicholas of Cusa [Nicholaus von Kues, or Nicholas Cusanus] (b. 1401, d. 1464), theologian, bishop of Brixen in Tyrol in 1450 and cardinal in 1449, founder of the hospital of St Nicholas at Cues on the Mosel: left his entire library to the hospital in his last will dated 6 August 1464.
St Nicholas hospital at Cues on the Mosel, ownership incription: 'liber hospital[is] s[ancti] Nicolai p[ro]pe Cusa[m] Treveren[sis] dioces[is] d[omino] Car[dina]l[is]' (f 1*r).
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. Sold to him in 1718, together with other manuscripts formerly in the hospital library (see von Hermann 1986).
Edward Harley bequeathed the library to his widow, Henrietta, née Cavendish 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.
- Publications:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), no. 4241.
B. L. Ullman, 'Manuscripts of Nicholas of Cues', Speculum, 13 (1938), pp. 194-97 (p. 195).
J. Hallauer von Hermann, 'Habet sua fata libelli. Von der Mosel zur Themse: Handschriften des St. Nicholaus-Hospital in der Bibliotheca Harleiana', Mitteilungen und Forschungsbeiträge der Cusanus-Gesellshaft, 17 (1986), 21-56 (pp. 36, 43).
Paul Oskar Kristeller, Studies in Renaissance Thought and Letters, 3 vols (Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 1993), III, p. 35.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)