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Harley MS 4735
- Record Id:
- 040-001615998
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-001615998
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001515.0x000161
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 4735
- Title:
- Commentary on Aristotle, Physica; Nicolaus Lakmann, Formalitates
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
A commentary on Aristotle's Physica (ff. 1r-74v);
Nicolaus Lakmann, Formalitates (ff. 75r-78r).
Decoration:
Initial in red at the beginning of the book 1. Space left for initials at the beginning of other books and Nicolaus Lakmann's Formalitates. Paraphs in red and first letters of sentences highlighted in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
Harley Science Project - Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-001615998", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 4735: Commentary on Aristotle, Physica; Nicolaus Lakmann, Formalitates" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "041-001615999", "parent" : "040-001615998", "text" : "Harley MS 4735, ff 1r-74v: Commentary on Aristotle, Physica" },{ "id" : "041-001616000", "parent" : "040-001615998", "text" : "Harley MS 4735, ff 75r-78r: Nicolaus Lakmann, Formalitates" }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-001615998 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 4735 : Commentary on Aristotle, Physica; Nicolaus Lakmann, Formalitates - Contains:
- Harley MS 4735, ff 1r-74v : Commentary on Aristotle, Physica
Harley MS 4735, ff 75r-78r : Nicolaus Lakmann, Formalitates
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- 032-002045828[4734]/040-001615998
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Harley_MS_4735 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1450
- End Date:
- 1499
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Paper codex.
Dimensions: 210 x 145 mm (text space: 150 x 100 mm).
Foliation: ff. vi + 78.
Script: Gothic cursive. Catchwords on each page; quire signatures (ff. 1r-74v). Colophon: 'Explicit libri physicorum/ quod Cursinus de Swapham Markett' [Swaffam, Norfolk] (f. 74v) and 'Explicit quod Curson' (f. 78r).
Binding: British Museum/British Library binding. Rebound in 1967.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England (East Anglia?).
Provenance:
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 (1808), no. 4735.
Paul Oskar Kristeller, Iter Italicum: Accedunt Alia Itinera: A Finding List of Uncatalogued or Incompletely Catalogued Humanistic Manuscripts of the Renaissance in Italian and other Libraries 7 vols (London: Warburg Institute; Leiden: Brill, 1963-1997), IV (1989), p. 180.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)