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Harley MS 6046

Record Id:

040-001616558

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-001616558

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001515.0x0003a1

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Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 6046

Title:

Commentaries on works of Aristotle and Johannes de Sacro Bosco

Scope & Content:

The manuscript includes commentaries on Aristotle's Physica, De anima, Parva naturalia, a commentary on Johannes de Sacro Bosco, Tractatus de sphaera, Aristotle's De coelo, De ortu et interitu, and Tractatus meteorologicus. The first three commentaries on Aristotle are preceded by printed documents including lists of subjects of theses on relevant topics.

Contents:

Theses philosophicae pro tertia ad baccalaureatum responsionae (f. 1r)

Commentarius in octo libros phylicorum (ff. 3r-144v);

Theses Physicae (f. 145r);

In libros tres Aristotelis de anima disputatium cum ea proemialis de scientia animastica (ff. 146r-203v);

Breviarium philosophiae (f. 204r);

De parvis naturalibus Aristotelis (ff. 205r-221r);

In Spheram Iohannis de Sacro Bosco commentarius (ff. 222r-249r);

In quatuor libros de Coelo (ff. 250r-307v);

Scholia in libros De ortu et interitu (ff. 308r-358v);

Tractatus meteorologici (ff. 359r-371v).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection
Harley Science Project

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-001616558

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 6046 : Commentaries on works of Aristotle and Johannes de Sacro Bosco

Contains:

Harley MS 6046, f 1r : Theses philosophicae pro tertia ad baccalaureatum responsionae
Harley MS 6046, ff 3r-144v : Commentary on Aristotle, Physica
Harley MS 6046, f 145r : Theses Physicae
Harley MS 6046, ff 146r-203v : Commentary on Aristotle, De anima
Harley MS 6046, f 204r : Breviarium philosophiae
Harley MS 6046, ff 205r-221r : Commentary on Aristotle, Parva naturalia
Harley MS 6046, ff 222r-249r : Commentary on Johannes de Sacro Bosco, Tractatus de sphera
Harley MS 6046, ff 250r-307v : Commentary on Aristotle, De coelo
Harley MS 6046, ff 308r-358v : Commentary on Aristotle, De ortu et interritu
Harley MS 6046, ff 359r-371v : Commentary on Aristotle, Tractatus meteorologicus

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Hierarchy:

032-002045828[6050]/040-001616558

Container:

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

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Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1605

End Date:

1606

Date Range:

1605-1606

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Paper codex.

Dimensions: 200 x 150 mm (text space; 140 x 100 mm), except f. 2: 275 x 375 mm; f. 145: 355 x 280 mm; f. 204: 330 x 335 mm.

Foliation: ff. xi + 372 (v of xi paper flyleaves are from the original manuscript; ff. 1, 2, 145, 204, 372 are leaves excised from printed books). Quire signatures in the form of letters at the beginning of each quire.

Script: Cursive.

Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house binding; rebound in 1967.

Custodial History:

Origin: Produced by a Jesuit: includes numerous Jesuit emblems of 'IHS' (e.g. ff. 86v, 120r, 131v), some with initials 'MA', and the date 1605 (f. 86r); perhaps in the Southern Netherlands.

Provenance:

A fragment of a title page of a printed book including a coat of arms identified as those of Thomas Aquinas, 'Insigna D. Thomae et comitum de Aquino, anno 1606' (f. 1v).

A fragment of a title page of a printed book with large coats of arms of a cardinal, with a motto 'Semper ad Arcton', and a fragment of the title reading 'et per illustri viro domi[ni] [Gu]ilielmi Richardoto ...Apostolicae protonota... S. Amati apud Duacenses praeposi..., refering to Guillaume Richardot (d. 1670), baron of Lembeek and cout of Galmaarden in 1623, educated in the house of the humanist Justus Lipsius, provost of St Amé, Douai, later chancellor of the Univeristy of Douai.

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:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III, no. 6046.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)