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Harley MS 336
- Record Id:
- 040-002046164
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046164
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000596.0x0002c1
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165168057.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 336
- Title:
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Giovanni Gigli, Questiones de observantia quadragesimali; poems on the marriage between King Henry VII and Elizabeth of York, and their first son, Prince Arthur
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1v-67r: Giovanni Gigli, Questiones de observantia quadragesimali; addressed to John Russell, bishop of Lincoln (1480-1494), and Keeper of the Privy Seal.
ff. 67v-69v: Giovanni Gigli, Introductory letter to Richard Fox.
ff. 70r-82r: Giovanni Gigli, Poem on the marriage between King Henry VII and Elizabeth of York, here entitled: ‘Epithalamium de nuptiis serenissimi et clementissimi principes et domini D. Henrici Dei gratia Anglie et Francie regis et eius nominis septimi et serenissime D. Elisabet eius uxoris regine anno salutis Mo. CCCCo. LXXXVIo. per Joannem de Giglis’.
f. 82v: Giovanni Gigli, Epigramma in natalem principes.
f. 83r: Giovanni Gigli, Epigramma de nomine Arturi.
ff. 83v-86r: Giovanni Gigli, Poem on the birth of Prince Arthur, here entitled: ‘Genethliacon in illustrissimum principem D. Arthurum serenissimi regis in Anglie et Francie Henrici septimi filium metrum endecasillabum’.
f. 86r: Giovanni Gigli, Poem to the book (‘Ad libellum’).
ff. 86r-86v: Giovanni Gigli, Poem to the royal secretary (‘Ad D. secretarium’).
Decoration:
Two large blue or red initials in gold frames with flowers inside their letters and full panel borders in colours and gold (ff. 2r, 70r), featuring a dog (greyhound), a dragon, a bird, roses and columbines on a grey ground dotted with gold (f. 2r), or flowers, acorns, and a greyhound holding a banner with the arms of Henry VII (f. 70r). Three large gold initials in blue and purple frames with full panel borders in colours and gold (ff. 19r, 27v, 52r), featuring flowers, acanthus, a dog and a dragon (ff. 19r, 52r), or flowers and acanthus only (f. 27v). Medium initials in gold in blue and purple frames and black penwork decoration with gold. Small initials in gold with black penwork decoration or in blue with red penwork decoration. Capitals highlighted in yellow. Rubrics in purple ink.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046164 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 336 : Giovanni Gigli, Questiones de observantia quadragesimali; poems on the marriage between King Henry VII and Elizabeth of York, and… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0335]/040-002046164
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Harley_MS_336 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1482
- End Date:
- 1492
- Date Range:
- c 1487
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 235 x 170 mm (text space: 140 x 115 mm).
Foliation: ff. 86 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end).
Script: Gothic.
Binding: British Museum in-house.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: ? England or Southern Netherlands
Provenance:
Presented by Giovanni Gigli of Lucca (b. 1434, d. 1498) to Richard Fox [Foxe] (b. 1447/8, d. 1528), royal secretary to King Henry VII, administrator, bishop of Winchester, founder of Corpus Christi College, Oxford: dedication texts (ff. 1v, 67v-69v), Tudor heraldic devices (f. 2r), royal arms (f. 70r).
Sir Simonds D'Ewes (b.1602, d. 1650), 1st baronet, diarist, antiquary, and friend of Sir Robert Cotton (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1927), p. 131): listed in his catalogues as A.269; B.183 (see Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D’Ewes (1966), p. 133).
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.
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:
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Janet Backhouse, ‘A Devotional Book for Lady Margaret Beaufort’, in Reading Texts and Images: Essays on Medieval and Renaissance Art and Patronage in Honour of Margaret M. Manion, ed. by Bernard J. Muir (Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2002), 221-35 (p. 224, n. 15).
Janet Backhouse, ‘Illuminated Manuscripts Associated with Henry VII and Members of His Immediate Family’, in The Reign of Henry VII: Proceedings of the 1993 Harlaxton Symposium, ed. by B. Thompson (Stamford: Watkins, 1995), pp. 175-87 (p. 178).
A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), I (1808), no. 336.
David Carlson, 'King Arthur and Court Poems for the Birth of Arthur Tudor in 1486', Humanistica Lovaniensia, 36 (1987), 147-83 (pp. 169-73) [for an edition of Gigl's Genethliacon and Epigrammata].
Paul Oskar Kristeller, Iter Italicum: Accedunt Alia Itinera: A Finding List of Uncatalogued or Incompletely Catalogued Humanistic Manuscripts of the Renaissance in Italian and other Libraries, 7 vols (London: Warburg Institute; Leiden: Brill, 1963-1997), IV (1989), p. 154.
Kathleen L. Scott, Later Gothic Manuscripts 1390-1490, A Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles, 6, 2 vols, (London: Miller, 1996), II, pp. 331, 366.
Kathleen L. Scott, ‘Manuscripts for Henry VII, His Household and Family’, in The Cambridge Illuminations: The Conference Papers, ed. by Stella Panayotova (London-Turnhout: Miller, 2007), p. 283 n. 52.
Gilbert and Godelieve Tournoy-Thoen, ‘Giovanni Gigli and the Renaissance of the Classical Epithalamium in England’, Myricae: Essays on Neo-Latin Literature in Memory of Jozef IJsewijn, ed. by Dirk Sacré and Gilbert Tournoy, Supplementa Humanistica Lovaniensia, 16 (Louvain: Louvain University Press, 2000), 133-194 [for an edition of Gigli's Epithalamium].
J. B. Trapp, ‘Giovanni Gigli’, in Oxford Dictionary of National Bibliography [accessed 30 January 2008].
Andrew G. Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes (London: British Museum, 1966), no. A269.
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, p. 8.
Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 131, 186-87.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)