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Harley MS 5735

Record Id:

040-001780394

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-001780394

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000195.0x000149

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 5735

Title:

Miscellany

Scope & Content:

Miscellany, including collections of letters and a commentary on Lycophron's Alexandra

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Greek Manuscripts
Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-001780394

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 5735 : Miscellany

Contains:

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Hierarchy:

032-002045828[5738]/040-001780394

Container:

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

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

144 folios

Digitised Content:

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Languages:

Greek, Ancient

Scripts:

Greek

Start Date:

1350

End Date:

1399

Date Range:

2nd half of the 14th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Paper (w.m. cf. Briquet Deux clefs 3834-3838; Ange 595-600; Oiseau 12100).

Foliation: ff 144.

Dimensions: 213 x 128 (164 x 110) mm.

Ruling: 33 lines (ff 1-12); 24 lines (ff 13-19); 27 lines (ff 20-35); 14/16 lines (ff 36-83); 30 lines (ff 85-129); 34/41 lines (ff 130-135); 26 lines (ff 136-142).

Decoration: Headpieces and large marginal initials with foliate or geometric decoration in red or purple (ff 1-12). Headpiece and initial with geometric decoration in light brown (f 136). Large initials in red or brown (ff 13-17v, 36-77v, 136-141v).

Binding: British Museum, 19th century.

Custodial History:

Origin: Eastern Mediterranean.

Provenance:

Composite volume made up of manuscripts written by several scribes.

The Jesuit College in Agen (Lot-et-Garonne, France), maintained by the Jesuits from 1591 to 1762: inscribed, 17th century, 'Collegij Agen. Societ. Jesu Catal. Ins.' (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.

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:

Eastern Mediterranean.

Information About Copies:

Complete digital coverage available for this manuscript, see Digitised Manuscripts [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=harley_ms_5735].

Select digital coverage available for this manuscript, see Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts [http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=5002&CollID=8&NStart=5735].

Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols, London 1808-1812, III, p. 292.

R. Hercher, Epistolographi Graeci, Paris 1873.

Libanii Opera, ed. R. Foerster, 12 vols, Leipzig 1903-1923.

W. Fritz, Die handschriftliche Überlieferung der Briefe des Bischofs Synesios (AKBAW philos.-philol. Klasse 23.2) Munich 1905, p. 357 No. 21.

C. M. Briquet, Les Filigranes, 4 vols, Geneva, etc. 1907 (repr. Amsterdam 1965).

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.

A. Garzya, 'Inventario dei manoscritti delle Epistole di Sinesio', Atti dell'Academia Pontaniana n.s. 22 (1973) pp. 251-294, No. 116.

S. Kotzabassi, 'Die Progymnasmata des Gregor von Zypern. Fabeln, Erzählung und Ethopoiie', Ellenika 43 (1993) pp. 45-63.

The British Library Summary Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts, I, London 1999, p. 184.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)