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Harley MS 2489
- Record Id:
- 040-002048320
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048320
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000709.0x0003e5
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2489
- Title:
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Publius Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses; Fasti
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-201r: Publius Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses, with commentary.
ff. 202r-202v: An incomplete Roman calendar with Roman Gods/festivals (January-June).
ff. 203r-285r: Publius Ovidius Naso, Fasti.
Decoration:
Large initial in pink and brown ink with acanthus leaves and a hybrid dragon (f. 1r). Large initial in pale colours with acanthus leaves extending into the margin, with flowers and 2 peacocks (f. 14r). Initials in blue on a pink ground or pink on a blue ground (ff. 28v, 40v, 54r, 65v, 77v, 92r, 106v, 120r, 132v, 145v, 156r, 172v, 186v, 203r, 215r) occasionally foliate decoration, flowers and hybrid creature (f. 40v), a jester's head (f. 92r), a fish (77v), a lion, a lady with pointed headdress and an animal head holding a coat of arms with a lion (f. 120r), a face in profile and a hybrid face (f. 172v), a coat of arms with Christ's 5 wounds (f. 203r). Smaller initials in pink on blue ground towards the end of the book (ff. 229r, 244r, 260r, 272r). 'KL' initials in red with reserved designs (f. 202r-v). Capitals marked with red ink. - Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002048320", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 2489: Publius Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses; Fasti" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002048320 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 2489 : Publius Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses; Fasti - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[2490]/040-002048320
- 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:
- 1474
- Date Range:
- 3rd quarter of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 290 x 215 mm (text space: 185 x 75 mm).
Foliation: ff. i + 258 + ii (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end); 2 unfoliated ruled leaves after f. 201 and 1 after f. 258. The paper features a watermark of a letter 'y' (visible on f. [201b]) that is extremely close to Briquet, Les Filigranes (1968), no. 9183 (dated 1472 to Brittany) and 9184 (dated 1483 to Neubourg, in the North East of France). Another watermark, of an ox head is visible on f. ii (unruled flyleaf), which is close to Briquet no. 14237 (dated 1474 to Namur, in present-day Belgium). 1 unfoliated paper pastedown on f. [iv]recto (bibliographical notes).
Collation: Mainly in quires of 12; indicated by leaf signatures and catchwords; each quire has been mounted separately onto a paper guard.
Script: Gothic, with gloss in Gothic cursive
Binding: British Museum in-house; red half leather binding with the Harleian arms gold-stamped on the outside covers; re-bound in 1986.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Germany.
Provenance:
Written by Bartholomeus Fuscus, presbiter: inscribed colophon 'Vis sex millenos versus in codice scriptos sed ter quinque minus continet ovidius Sis lector certus quod dextera bartholomei Fusci me scripsit presbiter isque fuit' (f. 201r).
An unknown (?) 15th-century owner: their rrased ownership inscription in the upper margin of f. 1r: 'F […]'.
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.
- 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. 695.
Franco Munari, Catalogue of the Manuscripts of Ovid's Metamorphoses, Supplement 4 (London: University of London Institute of Classical Studies; Warburg Institute, 1957), no. 163.
C. M. Briquet, Les Filigranes: Dictionnaire historique des marques du papier dès leur apparition vers 1282 jusqu'en 1600, A Facsimile of the 1907 Edition with Supplementary Material, ed. by Allan Stevenson, 4 vols (Amsterdam: Paper Publications Society, 1968), nos 9183, 9184, and 14237.
E. H. Alton, D. E. W. Wormell, E. Courtney, 'A Catalogue of the Manuscripts of Ovid's Fasti', London University Institute of Classical Studies Bulletin 24 (1977), 37-63 (p. 47).
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.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Ovidius Naso, Publius, Roman poet, 43 BC-17,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121427757 - Places:
- Germany