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Harley MS 2474
- Record Id:
- 040-002048305
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048305
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000709.0x0003d6
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2474
- Title:
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Publius Papinius Statius, Thebais
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-166v: Publius Papinius Statius, Thebais.
Decoration:
Large initial in colours and gold at the beginning of each book, with acanthus leaves, flowers, besants and brown pen-flourishing extending into the margin (ff. 1r, 13r, 38r), or more contained with foliate decoration and no pen-flourishing (in a different hand: ff. 52r, 64v, 80v, 94r, 107r, 122r, 138r, 151r). Initials in blue with red pen-flourishing or in red with purple pen-flourishing (ff. 25v, 37v). Coloured initials in red (ff. 137v, 150v). Capitals marked in yellow. Paraphs in red. - Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002048305", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 2474: Publius Papinius Statius, Thebais" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002048305 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 2474 : Publius Papinius Statius, Thebais - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[2475]/040-002048305
- 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:
- 1450
- End Date:
- 1499
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Letter of introduction required to view this manuscript
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 295 x 220 mm (written space: 195 x 105 mm).
Foliation: ff. 1* + 166 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves and 1 unfoliated parchment flyleaf at the beginning + 4 unfoliated ruled unwritten leaves after f. 164 + 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end).
Script: Humanistic.
Binding: Post-1600. Brown mottled calf with gold fillets and blind tooling.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Italy, N.E.
Provenance:
Johannes Franciscus de castro barcho [possibly the Castelbarco family, of Verona], 15th century: inscribed 'Iste liber stacij est meij Jo. Francisi de castro barcho q[ue] pergit ad scolar [et?] magistri colunbini scola[rum] ludi magister et c[?] pandemero' and 'Ego Jo. Franciscus de c. b.' (f. 165v).
Numerous annotations in Greek, 15th century.
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 (see Wright 1972): purchased from him on 18 January 1723/24 for the Harley Collection.
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. [iii]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), no. 2474.
The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by Cyril Ernest Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), II: 1723-1726, p. 234 n. 4.
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. 98, 253-54.
David Anderson, 'Boccaccio Glosses on Statius', Studi sul Boccaccio, 22 (1994), 3-134 (p. 124).
Harald Anderson, The Manuscripts of Statius, 3 vols (revised edition: Arlington, Virginia, 2009), I, pp. 199-200, no. 302.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Statius Papinius, Publius, c 45-c 96,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000118566297,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/100904338 - Places:
- Italy