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Harley MS 6312
- Record Id:
- 040-001780472
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-001780472
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000195.0x000151
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6312
- Title:
- Herodotus, Historiae
- Scope & Content:
- Herodotus, Historiae.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Harley Collection - Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-001780472", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 6312: Herodotus, Historiae" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "041-001780473", "parent" : "040-001780472", "text" : "Harley MS 6312, ff 1-59v: Herodotus, Historiae Book I, with a few Latin marginal notes. Imperfect, expl. (1.98) ἐκ πάντων Μήδων…" }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-001780472 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 6312 : Herodotus, Historiae - Contains:
- Harley MS 6312, ff 1-59v : Herodotus, Historiae Book I, with a few Latin marginal notes. Imperfect, expl. (1.98) ἐκ πάντων…
Click here to View / search full list of parts of Harley MS 6312 - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[6317]/040-001780472
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
60 folios
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Harley_MS_6312 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
Latin - Scripts:
- Greek
Latin - Start Date:
- 1449
- End Date:
- 1449
- Date Range:
- before 1449
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Paper.
Foliation: ff. 60.
Dimensions: 200 x 125 (140 x 70) mm.
Ruling: Leroy 00D1, 19 lines.
Binding: British Museum, half red leather (1967)
- Custodial History:
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Provenance:
Inscribed on parchment fragment probably cut from earlier binding and now pasted onto f 60 '1449 die inc a | pralis | Herodotus Petri Mann[.] etc'.
Inscribed c.1600 'Reverendo Misser Pauolo' (ff 23v, 36r).
Owned by the Jesuit College, Agen (f 1r; Fontes p. 48).
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.
- Information About Copies:
- Complete digital coverage available for this manuscript, see Digitised Manuscripts [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=harley_ms_6312].
- Publications:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols, London 1808-1812, III, p. 356.
E. M. Thompson, 'Catalogue of Classical Manuscripts', Classical Review 3 (1889) p. 150 No.72.
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.
The British Library Summary Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts, I, London 1999, p. 205.
- Exhibitions:
- Greek Manuscripts, (online), 18 September 2016-
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)