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Harley MS 6301

Record Id:

040-001780459

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-001780459

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000195.0x000150

LARK:

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Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 6301

Title:

Letters, Batrachomyomachia, Agapetus, Isocrates

Scope & Content:

Letters, Batrachomyomachia, Agapetus, Isocrates

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Greek Manuscripts
Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-001780459

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 6301 : Letters, Batrachomyomachia, Agapetus, Isocrates

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Hierarchy:

032-002045828[6305]/040-001780459

Container:

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

195 folios

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Languages:

Greek, Ancient

Scripts:

Greek

Start Date:

1500

End Date:

1540

Date Range:

Early 16th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Paper.

Foliation: ff 195.

Dimensions: 210 x 155 (130/140 x 80) mm.

Ruling: 18 lines (ff 1-7), 9 lines (ff 8-24, 127, 130v-195), 10 lines (ff 25-43, 128-130), 13-15 lines (ff 44-75), 13-17 lines (ff 76-125).

Decoration: Title in display capitals in red (f. 8). Headpieces with foliate or geometric decoration in red (ff. 25, 44, 126v). Initials with foliate decoration, titles and rubrics in red or light brown.

Binding: British Museum, half red leather (1966). Latin title on lower fore-edges.

Scribe: (ff 1v-2) identified as Andreas Donos (Ἀνδρέας Δῶνος, Repertorium 1A, no 14), not Antonios Episkopopoulos (Ἀντώνιος Ἐπισκοπόπουλος, Repertorium 1A, no 24). Scribe (ff 127-195) dubiously identified as Janus Lascaris (Young p. 27).

Custodial History:

Origin: Italy.

Provenance:

Written by several scribes, including:

a) Andreas Donos (ff 1v-2; see Gamillscheg and Harlfinger 1981);

b) possibly Janos Lascaris (ff 127-195; Young 1953, but see Summary Catalogue 1999).

The Jesuit College in Agen (Lot-et-Garonne, France), maintained by the Jesuits from 1591 to 1762: inscribed, 17th century, 'Colleg. Agenen. Socie Jesu. Catal. Inscrip.' (f 3; see Fontes 1972).

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:

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Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols, London 1808-1812, III, p. 355.

R. Hercher, Epistolographi Graeci, Paris 1873.

H. Omont, 'Notes sur les manuscrits grecs du British Museum', Bibliothèque de l'École des Chartes 45 (1884) p. 335.

E. M. Thompson, 'Catalogue of Classical Manuscripts', Classical Review 2 (1888) p. 104 No. 21, p. 171 No. 33, 3 (1889) p. 153 No. 90.

A. Ludwich, De codicibus Batrachomachiae dissertatio (Index lectionum in Regia Academia Albertina per hiemem anni 1894/5), Königsberg 1894, p. 6.

H. Diels, Die Handschriften der antiken Ärzte, I: Hippokrates und Galenos (AKPAW philos.-hist. Klasse 3), Berlin 1905, p. 38.

D. C. Young, 'A Codicological Inventory of Theognis Manuscripts', Scriptorium 7 (1953) p. 27 No. 40.

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. 48.

E. Gamillscheg and D. Harlfinger, Repertorium der griechischen Kopisten 800-1600, 1: Grossbritannien, 3 vols, Vienna, 1981, nos. 14, 24.

P. O. Kristeller, Iter Italicum. A Finding List of Uncatalogued or Incompletely Catalogued Humanistic Manuscripts of the Renaissance in Italian and other Libraries, IV (Alia Itinera II): Great Britain to Spain, Leiden 1989, p. 152.

The British Library Summary Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts, I, London 1999, p. 201.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Donos, Andreas, fl 1525-1550
Episkopopoulos, Antonios, fl 2nd half of the 16th century