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Harley MS 2466
- Record Id:
- 040-002048297
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048297
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000709.0x0003ce
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2466
- Title:
- Cicero, Epistulae ad Atticum
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains the Epistulae ad Atticum (Letters to Atticus), a collection of letters from the Roman orator Marcus Tullius Cicero (b. 106, d. 43 BC) to his close friend Titus Pomponius Atticus (b. c. 110, d. 32 BC). According to an inscription on the first folio, the book was owned by Jacopo Raffaelli Corbinelli (b. 1535, d. 1590), a Florentine tutor to Henry III of France.
Contents:
ff. 1r-245v: Marcus Tullius Cicero, Epistulae ad Atticum, Latin with some proper nouns and rubrics in Greek.
Decoration:
18 large white vine initials in gold and colours at the beginning of each book (ff. 1r, 14r, 27r, 36r, 45r, 62v, 77v, 87r, 98v, 110r, 136r, 148v, 174v, 186r, 200r, 214r, 225r, 235v). The white vine decoration extends into the margin on f. 1r. Coloured initials in blue. Added ink drawing of a bearded head, post-medieval (f. 245v).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002048297", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 2466: Cicero, Epistulae ad Atticum" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002048297 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 2466 : Cicero, Epistulae ad Atticum - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[2467]/040-002048297
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Greek
Latin - Scripts:
- Greek
Latin - Start Date:
- 1450
- End Date:
- 1474
- Date Range:
- 3rd quarter of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 285 x 195 mm (written space: 180 x 110 mm).
Foliation: ff. 245 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and + 5 at the end).
Collation: Mostly in quires of 10.
Catchwords written horizontally. Leaf signatures.
Script: Humanistic cursive.
Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house. Rebound in 1973. Red half-leather binding with the Harleian armorial bookplate, gold-stamped on the upper and lower covers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Italy, Central (probably Florence or Rome).
Provenance:
This manuscript was made in Florence or Rome in the 3rd quarter of the 15th century, according to unpublished notes of A. C. de la Mare at the Bodleian Library, Oxford.
Sebastianus Salvestri, 'filio, adolescenti bono', of Florence: inscription dated 1558 recording the gift of this manuscript to Jacopo Corbinelli (f. 1r).
Jacopo Raffaelli Corbinelli (b. 1535, d. 1590?), Florentine tutor to Henry III of France: inscription dated 1558 recording the gift of this manuscript from Sebastianus Salvestri (f. 1r).
The Jesuit College in Agen (Lot-et-Garonne, France), maintained by the Jesuits from 1591 to 1762: inscribed, 17th century 'Colleg. Agen. Socie. Jesu. Catal. Inscrip.' (f. 1r).
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.
- Information About Copies:
- Select digital coverage available for this manuscript; see the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts, https://bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/.
- 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), no. 2466.
C. E. Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 47, 111, 295.
G. Novaro, 'Proposta di restituzione della lezione originale Arteminos in Ciceronem Ad Att. I, 19, 4', Studi Etruschi, 43 (1975), 105-15 (pp. 110-11).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Corbinelli, Jacopo Raffaelli, Tutor to Henry III of France, 1535-1590
Salvestri, Sebastianus, fl 1558
Tullius Cicero, Marcus, 106 BC-43 BC,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000139322910,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/78769600 - Places:
- Florence, Italy
Rome, Italy