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Harley MS 5724

Record Id:

040-001780362

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-001780362

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000195.0x000147

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 5724

Title:

Euripides, Hesiod, Xenophon, Demosthenes and Lucian

Scope & Content:

Euripides, Hecuba;Hesiod, Aspis;Xenophon, Apologia Socratis, Agesilaus, Hiero;Demosthenes, Olynthiaca 1-3; Philippica 1, De pace, Philippica 2, De Halonneso, De Chersoneso; Lucian, Tyrannicida; Abdicatus; Imagines; Patriae encomium; Demonax

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Greek Manuscripts
Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-001780362

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 5724 : Euripides, Hesiod, Xenophon, Demosthenes and Lucian

Contains:

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Hierarchy:

032-002045828[5727]/040-001780362

Container:

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

214 folios

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Languages:

Greek, Ancient

Scripts:

Greek

Start Date:

1460

End Date:

1499

Date Range:

Late 15th century

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Paper.

Foliation: ff 214.

Dimensions: 200 x 145 (145 x 85) mm.

Ruling: Leroy D 32D1, 22 lines (ff 1-30), 23 lines (ff 31-213).

Collation: Gatherings of 8, numbered αʹ-κηʹ.

Binding: British Museum, half maroon leather (1894).

Decoration: Headpieces with geometric decoration in brown or red (ff 1, 2, 31, 42, 51, 80v, 99v, 100, 164, 174, 189, 200v, 203v). Titles in display capitals in red or brown (ff 2, 51, 80v, 57, 164). Decorated initials in red or brown.

Custodial History:

Provenance:

The Jesuit College in Agen (Lot-et-Garonne, France), maintained by the Jesuits from 1591 to 1762: inscribed, 17th century 'Coll. Agen. Soc. Jesu. Catal. Insc.' (f 1; see Fontes p. 47).

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 '172. Oxford. Bibl. Harl.' (f 1).

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.

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Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols, London 1808-1812, III, p.290.

F. A. Paley, Euripides, with an English Commentary, 3 vols, London 1857-1860, III, p. xxviii, facsimile of f 10 opposite p. xxix.

E. M. Thompson, 'Catalogue of Classical Manuscripts', Classical Review 2 (1888) p. 171 No. 26, p. 173 No. 45, 3 (1889) p. 151 No. 81, p. 154 No. 98, p. 444 No. 152.

Libanii Opera, ed. R. Foerster, 12 vols, Leipzig 1903-1923, VIII p. 593 No. 93.

Lucianus, ed. N. F. Nilén, Leipzig 1906, I.1 p.7* (cod. u).

M. Wittek, 'Liste des manuscrits de Lucien', Scriptorium 6 (1952) p. 313 No. 41.

A. Turyn, The Byzantine Manuscript Tradition of the Tragedies of Euripides (Illinois Studies in Language and Literature 43), Urbana 1957, p. 213.

L. Canfora, Inventario dei manoscritti greci di Demostene (Università di Padova, Seminario di Filologia Classica, Proagones 9), Padua 1968, p. 41 No. 94.

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. 47.

The British Library Summary Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts, I, London 1999, pp. 177-78.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

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