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Harley MS 1292

Record Id:

040-002047121

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002047121

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x00031e

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 1292

Title:

Commentarius in universam Aristotelis Physicam; lecture notes of the University of Louvain

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-236r: Commentarius in universam Aristotelis Physicam; lecture notes of the University of Louvain.

Decoration:

f. 1r: An engraved title-page [with the space for the title left blank], featuring two savants, and two putti holding the arms of the Castle College of the University of Louvain; by Quirijn [Coryn] Boel the Younger (b 1620, d. 1668), printmaker and engraver, and Hieronymus Jacobus de Gosen ('Q. Boel fecit. - Iacobus Gosin excu.').

f. 90r: An engraved title-page [with the space for the title left blank], featuring Aristotle and Plato, and the arms of the Lily College; Falcon College; Castle College; and Pig College of the University of Louvain; engraved by Peeter Rucholle (b. 1618, d. 1647) ['Pet. Rucholle fec.'].

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002047121

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 1292 : Commentarius in universam Aristotelis Physicam; lecture notes of the University of Louvain

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[1292]/040-002047121

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:

1650

End Date:

1674

Date Range:

3rd quarter of the 17th century

Era:

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User Conditions:

Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: 200 x 150 mm.

Foliation: ff. 236 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end); 3 unfoliated paper leaves between f. 89 and f. 90; 1 unfoliated paper leaf between f. 90 and f. 91; and f. 170 and f. 171.

Script: 17th-century script.

Binding: Post-1600. Red leather binding.

Custodial History:

Origin:

Louvain.

Provenance:

A student at the University of Louvain, wrote the manuscript: the manuscript's engravings were also used in other volumes with lecture notes taken by students at the University of Louvain around the mid-17th century and in the third quarter of the 17th century: e.g. see Louvain-la-Neuve, Archives de l'Université catholique de Louvain, MS C 195; Koninklijke Bibliotheek van België, Brussel / Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, Bruxelles, MS II 3352; MS II 5338; MS II 5419; and MS II 6933 (not in Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)).

The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (1661-1724), 1st earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, and Edward Harley (1689-1741), 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 (1694-1755) during her lifetime and thereafter to their daughter, Margaret Cavendish Bentinck (1715-1785), duchess of Portland; the manuscripts were sold by the Countess and the Duchess in 1753 to the nation for £10,000 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), p. 558.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Places:

Leuven, Belgium