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Harley MS 5644

Record Id:

040-001780301

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-001780301

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000195.0x000140

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 5644

Title:

Vitzentzos Kornaros, Erotokritos

Scope & Content:

Vitzentzos Kornaros, Erotokritos, in 15-syllable rhymed couplets. Printed in Venice in 1713 from a manuscript no longer extant. See Αλεξίου (1986). Preceded by (ff 1r-9r) an alphabetical index of contents.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Greek Manuscripts
Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-001780301

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 5644 : Vitzentzos Kornaros, Erotokritos

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[5647]/040-001780301

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

264 folios

Digitised Content:

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Harley_MS_5644 (digital images currently unavailable)

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Languages:

Greek, Modern

Scripts:

Greek

Start Date:

1710

End Date:

1710

Date Range:

1710

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Paper (w.m. 3 Crescents).

Foliation: ff ii + 264. Old pagination (ff 10-263) 1-509, omitting (after f 104) pp.191, 192, which have been excised.

Dimensions: 220 x 150 (148 x 90) mm.

Ruling: 24 lines.

Decoration: One tinted drawing (f 9r). 121 pen drawings. Title in display capitals (f 10r). Large initials with foliate decoration in brown or red. Tailpieces in foliate design in ink. Headpieces in geometric design in black and red. Initials, rubrics and running titles in red, black and brown.

Collation: Gatherings mainly of 10 and 8 leaves (xii⁹ xxiv-xxvi¹² xxvii¹⁴).

Binding: British Museum, half black leather (1913).

Custodial History:

Origin: Greece (Ionian Islands).

Provenance:

The manuscript was copied in 1710 as suggested by the date in the title (f 10r).

Nikolaos Rhodostamo of Corcyra : purchased from him by Edward Harley on 23 October 1725 (see f ii* recto; Fontes p. 285; Diary pp. 379 n. 3, 389 n. 15, 391 n. 7).

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, inscribed as usual by their librarian, Humfrey Wanley, '23 die Octobris, A.D. 1725' (f ii recto).

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 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.

Administrative Context:

Greece (Ionian Islands).

Information About Copies:

Select digital coverage available for this manuscript, see Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts [http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=4975&CollID=8&NStart=5644].

Complete digital coverage available for this manuscript, see Digitised Manuscripts [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Harley_MS_5644].

Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols, London 1808-1812, III, p. 284.

B. Laourdas, 'Αἱ μικρογραφίαι τοῦ Ἐρωτοκρίτου (κῶδιξ τοῦ Βρεττανικοῦ Μουσείου Harley 5644', Κρητικὰ Χρονικὰ 6 (1952) pp. 299-320, πιν. κδʹ-νδʹ (reproductions of the illustrations).

Α. Ξυγόπουλος, 'Κρητικά μελετήματα. Βʹ. Αἱ μικρογραφίαι τοῦ Ἐρωτοκρίτου εἰς τὸν κώδικα τοῦ Λονδίνου', Κρητικὰ Χρονικὰ 10 (1956) pp. 332-340.

C. E. Wright and R. C. Wright, The Diary of Humphrey Wanley 1715-1726, 2 vols, London 1966, pp. 379 n. 3, 389 n. 15, 391 n. 7.

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. 285.

Σ. Αλεξίου, Βιτσέντσος Κορνάρος. Κριτική έκδοση, εισαγωγή, σημειώσεις, γλωσσάριο, Athens 1986, κʹ-κζʹ.

Literature and Society in Renaissance Crete, ed. D. Holton, Cambridge 1991, pp. 240, 297.

The British Library Summary Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts, I, London 1999, p. 153.

Vitsentzos Kornaros, Erotokritos. A Translation with Introduction and Notes, by Gavin Betts, Stathis Gauntlett and Thanasis Spilias (Australian Association for Byzantine Studies, Byzantina Australiensia, 14), Melbourne 2004, p. xvi.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Kornaros, Vitzentzos, Cretan poet, 1553-1613?