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Harley MS 1347
- Record Id:
- 040-002047176
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002047176
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x000355
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1347
- Title:
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Diogenes Laertius, Vitae et sententiae philosophorum; Gregory of Nazianzus, Orationes theologicae; Pseudo-John Chrysostom, De spiritu sancto
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1v-205v: Diogenes Laertius (fl. ? 3rd century), Vitae et sententiae philosophorum, trans. by Ambrogio Traversari (b. 1386, d. 1439), theologian and friend of Nicholas of Cusa, for Cosimo de' Medici (b. 1389, d. 1464).
ff. 206r-275r: Gregory of Nazianzus (b. 330, d. 390), Orationes theologicae.
ff. 275v-296r: Pseudo-John Chrysostom (here attributed), De spiritu sancto.
Decoration:
Large and small decorated initials in red throughout the manuscript.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002047176", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 1347: Diogenes Laertius, Vitae et sententiae philosophorum; Gregory of Nazianzus, Orationes theologicae; Pseudo-John Chrysostom, De spiritu…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002047176 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 1347 : Diogenes Laertius, Vitae et sententiae philosophorum; Gregory of Nazianzus, Orationes theologicae; Pseudo-John Chrysostom, De… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[1347]/040-002047176
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- A paper codex
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1425
- End Date:
- 1474
- Date Range:
- 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 290 x 220 mm.
Foliation: ff. 296 (+ 4 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning + at the end); the quires have been mounted on paper guards.
Script: Gothic cursive; Humanistic.
Binding: Post-1600. British Museum in-house: re-bound on 7 July 1966. The old Harleian binding has been pasted on the inside of the upper and lower cover.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Italy.
Giovanni Andrea dei Bussi (b. 1417, d. 1475), Italian Renaissance humanist and Bishop of Aleria, friend of Nicholas of Cusa: copied ff. 206-296 at Perugia in 1462; added a colophon with the year 1462 on f. 296r: ‘Ex Archetypo Reverendi Patris domini Petri Balbi Episcopi Iohannes Andreas [Bussi] Episcopus Acciensis [Accia, Corsica] descripsit in castroplebis dicionis Perusine [Perugia] fideliter die viiij Mensis decembris M.cccc.lxij’; also added marginal annotations on ff. 1v-205v; the manuscript's first part perhaps also originated in Italy.
Nicholas of Cusa [Nicholaus von Kues, or Nicholas Cusanus] (b. 1401, d. 1464), theologian, bishop of Brixen in Tyrol in 1450 and cardinal in 1449, founder of the hospital of St Nicholas at Kues on the Mosel: marginal annotations in his hand on ff. 1v-205v and f. 274v; probably left with his entire library to the St Nicholas hospital in his last will dated 6 August 1464.
The St Nicholas hospital, Kues, founded by Nicholas of Cusa: its 15th-century ownership inscription on f. 1r: ‘Iste est liber hospitalis sancti Nicolaj prope cusam’.
Nathaniel Noel (fl. 1681, d. c. 1753), bookseller, employed by Edward Harley for buying books and manuscripts chiefly on the Continent, where his agent was George Suttie: sold to Edward Harley on 18 Januarij A.D. 1723/4 (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 254).
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, inscribed as usual by their librarian, Humfrey Wanley 18 die Januarij A.D. 1723/4' (f. [iv]recto).
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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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), II (1808), p. 11.
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. 394.
Andrew G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c. 700-1600 in The Department of Manuscripts: The British Library, 2 vols (London: British Library, 1979), I: The Text, p. 120 (no. 642); II: The Plates, pl. 633.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- Italy