Hard-coded id of currently selected item: . JSON version of its record is available from Blacklight on e.g. ??
Metadata associated with selected item should appear here...
Harley MS 176
- Record Id:
- 040-002046004
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046004
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000596.0x000191
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 176
- Title:
- Guido delle Colonne, Historia destructionis Troiae
- Scope & Content:
-
Guido delle Colonne ['de Columnis' or 'de Columna'], Historia destructionis Troiae (A History of the Destruction of Troy) or Historia troiana, in 35 books with a prologue and epilogue. Explicit: 'Factum est autem presens opus Anno dominice incarnacionis millesimo ducentesimo octuagesimo septimo eiusdem prime indictionis feliciter' (f. 180v).
This Latin prose version, based on the Roman de Troie by Benoit de St Maure, was adapted by Guido delle Colonne, a judge and poet in the circle of Emperor Frederick II (b. 1194, d. 1250), initially for Mathaeus de Porta, archbishop of Salerno. When da Porta died in 1272, only the first book was complete, and the remaining 34 books were completed 15 years later, between 15 September and 25 November 1287 (see Jung, La Légende (1996), pp. 563-65).
Decoration:
Initial in colours and gold with a three-sided bar border ending in foliate featherings (f. 1r). Initials in blue, occasionally with reserved lines, with red pen-flourishing including foliate motifs. Some ascenders decorated with cadels.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002046004", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 176: Guido delle Colonne, Historia destructionis Troiae" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046004 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 176 : Guido delle Colonne, Historia destructionis Troiae - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0175]/040-002046004
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1360
- End Date:
- 1440
- Date Range:
- Late 14th century-Early 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
Please request the physical items you need using the online collection item request form.
Digitised items can be viewed online by clicking the thumbnail image or digitised content link.
Readers who have registered or renewed their pass since 21 March 2024 can request physical items prior to visiting the Library by completing
this request form.
Please enter the Reference (shelfmark) above on the request form.If your Reader Pass was issued before this date, you will need to visit the Library in London or Yorkshire to renew it before you can request items online. All manuscripts and archives must be consulted at the Library in London.
This catalogue record may describe a collection of items which cannot all be requested together. Please use the hierarchy viewer to navigate to individual items. Some items may be in use or restricted for other reasons. If you would like to check the availability, contact our Reference Services team, quoting the Reference (shelfmark) above.
- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
-
Materials: parchment.
Dimensions: 155 × 100 mm (written area 110 × 70 mm).
Foliation: ff. 1* + 181 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 3 at the end). Leaf signatures; catchwords.
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: British Museum. Marbled endpapers.
- Custodial History:
-
Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Erased inscription (f. 1*v).
Inscribed 'John Th[hom?]s', 16th century (f. 181r).
Sir Simonds d'Ewes (b.1602, d. 1650), 1st baronet, diarist, antiquary, and friend of Sir Robert Cotton: bought for 1 s. in 1625; in his catalogue (Watson 1966, no. A865), inscribed in his hand 'Factus erat hic liber A[nn]o D[omin]o 1287' (f. 1*v).
Sir Simonds D’Ewes (d. 1722), 3rd baronet and grandson of the former: inherited and later sold the D’Ewes library to Robert Harley on 4 October 1705 for £450 (see Watson 1966).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.
- Publications:
-
A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), I (1808), no. 176.
H. L. D. Ward, Catalogue of Romances in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum , 3 vols (London: British Museum, 1883-1910), I, 47.
Guido de Columnis, Historia Destructionis Troiae, ed. by Nathaniel Edward Griffin (Cambridge, MA: Medieval Academy of America, 1936) [edition of the text].
Andrew G. Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes (London: British Museum, 1966), no. A857, C229, E35.
The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by Cyril Ernest Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), I: 1715-1723, pp. xviii-xix.
Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), p. 131.
Guido delle Colonne, Historia Destructione Troiae, translated with an introduction and notes, by Mary Elizabeth Meek (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1974) [translation of the text].
Marc-René Jung, La Légende de Troie en France au moyen age (Basel & Tubingen: Francke Verlag, 1996), p. 565.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Guido delle Colonne [de Columnis or de Columna], judge and poet, fl 13th century,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000109290786