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Harley MS 3234
- Record Id:
- 040-001615982
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-001615982
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001515.0x000146
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3234
- Title:
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Philosophical texts and poems
- Scope & Content:
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The manuscript includes:
1. Alanus ab Insula (Alain de Lille), De planctu naturae (ff. 1r-41r);
2. Bernardus Silvestris, De universitate mundi (ff. 42r-73v);
3. P. Ovidius Naso, Epistulae ex Ponto (ff. 74r-109v);
4. Walter Burley, Liber de vita et moribus philosophorum (ff. 110r-147v);
5. L. Annaeus Seneca, De remediis fortuitorum (ff. 148r-151v).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
Harley Science Project - Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-001615982", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 3234: Philosophical texts and poems" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "041-001615983", "parent" : "040-001615982", "text" : "Harley MS 3234, ff 1r-41r: Alanus ab Insula (Alain de Lille), De planctu naturae" },{ "id" : "041-001615984", "parent" : "040-001615982", "text" : "Harley MS 3234, ff 42r-73v: Bernardus Silvestris, De universitate mundi" },{ "id" : "041-001615985", "parent" : "040-001615982", "text" : "Harley MS 3234, ff 74r-109v: P. Ovidius Naso, Epistulae ex Ponto" },{ "id" : "041-001615986", "parent" : "040-001615982", "text" : "Harley MS 3234, ff 110r-147v: Walter Burley, Liber de vita et moribus philosophorum" },{ "id" : "041-001615987", "parent" : "040-001615982", "text" : "Harley MS 3234, ff 148r-151v: L. Annaeus Seneca, De remediis fortuitorum" }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-001615982 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3234 : Philosophical texts and poems - Contains:
- Harley MS 3234, ff 1r-41r : Alanus ab Insula (Alain de Lille), De planctu naturae
Harley MS 3234, ff 42r-73v : Bernardus Silvestris, De universitate mundi
Harley MS 3234, ff 74r-109v : P. Ovidius Naso, Epistulae ex Ponto
Harley MS 3234, ff 110r-147v : Walter Burley, Liber de vita et moribus philosophorum
Harley MS 3234, ff 148r-151v : L. Annaeus Seneca, De remediis fortuitorum
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- 032-002045828[3235]/040-001615982
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 151 folios.
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Harley_MS_3234 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1425
- End Date:
- 1440
- Date Range:
- c 1430-1440
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Paper codex.
Dimensions: 285 x 205 mm (text space: ff. 1r-73v: 210 x 125 mm; ff. 74r-109v: 220 x 85 mm; ff. 110-132r: 210 x 125 mm; ff. 132v- 151v: 215 x 170 mm).
Foliation: ff. ii + 151. Original foliation (1-153) in brown ink. Catchwords and quire signatures.
Script: Gothic, except ff. 88r-109r and 132v-151v: Gothic cursive. Written by six hands (ff. 1r-41r; 42r-73v; 74r-87v, 88r-109r; 110r-132r; 132v-151v). ff. 1r-41r are written by Filipino de Montenariis [perhaps of Borgo Montenari, between Ravenna and Forli], notarius: his colophon 'Qui me scripsit scribat semper cum domino vivat / Vivar in celis filipinus in nomine felix / vivat in terra filipinus cum pulchra puella. / De Montenariis proscripsi calamo sacro / Pretorii sacri notarius ego Filippus' (f. 41r).
Binding: Post-1600. White leather binding on cardboard.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Italy, N. (Padua?)
Provenance:
Giovanni Marcanova (b. c. 1418, d. 1467), doctor of medicine, Padua in 1440 and professor of philosophy at Bologna (1452-1467): acquired by him in Padua in 1440, inscribed: '1440. Iohannes Marchanova./ artium et medicinae. /doctor. p[atavinus] s[ua] p[ecunia] em[it] / Patavii' (f. 1r).
Augustinian convent of San Giovanni di Verdara, Padua: given by Giovanni Marchanova in 1467, inscribed: 'Hunc librum donavit eximius artium et medicine doctro Mr Johannes / Marchanova de Venetiis Congregationi regularis Sancti Augustini. Ita ut tamen ad / usum dictorum canonicorum in monasterio Sancti Johanni in Virdario padue co[me]morantium (?) / Quare omnes pro eo pie orent. / MCCCLXVII [1467]' (f. 151v).
John Gibson (fl. 1720-1726), dealer of books acquiring manuscripts in Italy through agents probably operating from Florence, from 1720 onwards (see Wright 1972): acquired from him by Humphrey Wanley on 27 February 1719/20: date inscribed on f. 1r; see The Diary of Humphrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed by. C. E. Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: The Bibliographical Society, 1966), I, p. 28.
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, 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, no. 3234.
C. E. Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 162, 233, 264.
C. E. Wright, 'Manuscripts of Italian Provenance in the Harleian Collection in the British Museum, their Sources and Associations, Channels of Acquisitions', in Cultural Aspects of the Italian Renaissance: Essays in Honour of Paul Oscar Kristeller, ed. by Cecil. H. Clough (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1976), pp. 462-84 (p. 463).
Maria Cristina Vitali, 'L'umanista padovano Giovanni Marcanova (1410/1418-1467) e la sua biblioteca, Ateneo Veneto, 21 (1983), 127-61 (p. 161).
Jan Prelog, 'De Pictagora Phylosopho. Die Biographie des Pythagoras in dem Walter Burley Zugeschriebenen, Liber de vita et moribus philosophorum', Medioevo, 16 (1990), 191-251 (pp. 199, 206-07).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)