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Harley MS 5725

Record Id:

040-001780384

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-001780384

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000195.0x000148

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 5725

Title:

Aristophanes and Euripides

Scope & Content:

Aristophanes, Plutus and Nubes; Euripides, Hecuba and Orestes

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Greek Manuscripts
Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-001780384

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 5725 : Aristophanes and Euripides

Contains:

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Hierarchy:

032-002045828[5728]/040-001780384

Container:

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

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

304 folios

Digitised Content:

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Harley_MS_5725 (digital images currently unavailable)

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Languages:

Greek, Ancient

Scripts:

Greek

Start Date:

1495

End Date:

1505

Date Range:

c 1500

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Paper (watermarks similar to Harley 5728, ff 1-85).

Foliation: ff 304.

Dimensions: 210 x 145 (115 x 80) mm.

Ruling: Ruled for 9 lines of text and for marginal commentary.

Binding: British Museum, half black leather (1911).

Custodial History:

Origin: Italy.

Provenance:

Owned by the Jesuit College, Agen (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.

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:

Italy.

Information About Copies:

Complete digital coverage available for this manuscript, see Digitised Manuscripts [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Harley_MS_5725].

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, facs. of part of f 260v opposite p. xxvii.

E. M. Thompson, 'Catalogue of Classical Manuscripts', Classical Review 2 (1888) p. 173 No. 46, p. 174 No. 55.

J. W. White, 'The Manuscripts of Aristophanes', Classical Philology 1 (1906) p. 10.

J. F. Lockwood, 'The London Manuscripts of Aristophanes', Classical Review 51 (1937) pp. 165-166.

A. Turyn, The Byzantine Manuscript Tradition of the Tragedies of Euripides (Illinois Studies in Language and Literature 43), Urbana 1957, pp. 208-213 (cod. U), pl. xxi (f 141).

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, p. 178.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)