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Harley MS 2464
- Record Id:
- 040-002048295
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048295
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000709.0x0003cc
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2464
- Title:
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Petrus Isolellae, Summa grammaticae
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-36v: Petrus Isolellae [de Isolella Cremonensis], Summa grammaticae.
Decoration:
Large historiated initial with the author Petrus Isolellae in profile and acanthus leaves extending into the margins to form a full border; with a female figure in the lower margin and a kneeling man in the outer margin (f. 1r). Coloured initials in red. Paraphs in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002048295", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 2464: Petrus Isolellae, Summa grammaticae" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002048295 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 2464 : Petrus Isolellae, Summa grammaticae - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[2465]/040-002048295
- 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:
- 1300
- End Date:
- 1399
- Date Range:
- Last quarter of the 14th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 260 x 200 mm (written space: 180 x 150 mm), in 2 columns.
Foliation: ff. 36 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end).
Script: Gothic.
Binding: Post-1600. Brown mottled calf with gold fillets and blind tooling.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Italy, N. (?Lombardy).
Provenance:
Numerous added pen-trials, medieval hands (f. 36v).
?Philippus de Valle, 15th century: inscribed, 15th century, 'Magis[ter?] philipp[us] de valle regn[us]...' (f. 36v).
?Hanno de Rusconi, early 15th century: inscribed 'Iste liber est ?hanno de Rusconi' (f. 36v).
Johannes de ?Vrischonis, 15th century: inscribed 'Est Joh[annes] de ?vrischonis' (f. 36v).
John Gibson (fl. 1720-1726), dealer; sold to Harley on 23 April 1720 (see Diary 1966; Wright 1972).
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 ‘23 die Aprilis, A.D. 1720’ (f. 1r).
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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G. L. Bursill-Hall, A Census of Medieval Latin Grammatical Manuscripts, Grammatica Speculativa: Sprachtheorie und Logik des Mittelalters, 4 (Stuttgart: Frommann-Holzboog, 1981), p. 117 (no. 119).
A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), II (1808), p. 694.
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. 159.
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. 196 n. 9.
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. 162-3, 290.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- Northern Italy