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Harley MS 2491

Record Id:

040-002048322

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002048322

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000709.0x0003e7

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 2491

Title:

Cicero, Epistulae ad Brutum, Epistulae ad Quintum fratrem, and Epistulae ad Atticum; Pseudo-Ovid, Epistula ad Octavianum

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-12v: Marcus Tullius Cicero, Epistulae ad Brutum.

ff. 12v-39v: Marcus Tullius Cicero, Epistulae ad Quintum fratrem.

ff. 40r-41v: Pseudo-Cicero, Epistula ad Octavianum.

ff. 41v-217v: Marcus Tullius Cicero, Epistulae ad Atticum.

Decoration:

21 white vine initials in gold and colours (ff. 1r, 12v, 24v, 32r, 40r, 41v, 53r, 65v, 74r, 84r, 95, 105r, 118r, 129r, 142v, 153r, 163r, 175v, 188r, 198r, 207v). Coloured initials in alternating blue and red.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002048322

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 2491 : Cicero, Epistulae ad Brutum, Epistulae ad Quintum fratrem, and Epistulae ad Atticum; Pseudo-Ovid, Epistula ad Octavianum

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[2492]/040-002048322

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:

2nd or 3rd quarter of the 15th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: parchment.

Dimensions: 340 x 240 mm.

Foliation: ff. 217 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 2 at the end).

Script: Humanistic.

Binding: Post-1600.

Custodial History:

Origin:

?Florence, Italy.

Provenance:

An unidentified owner: their arms in ?16th century style (f. 1r) repeated on the verso of that folio (f. 1v).

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): sold to Edward Harley on 18 January 1723/4 (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, inscribed as usual by their librarian, Humfrey Wanley ‘18 die Januarij, A.D. 1723/4’ and inscribed 'Oxford B.H.' (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:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), p. 696.

De la Mare, Albinia, 'New Research on Humanistic Scribes in Florence', in Miniatura fiorentina del Rinascimento, 1440-1525: un primo censimento, ed. by Annarosa Garzelli, 2 vols, (Florence: Giunta regionale toscana, 1985), I, pp. 395-574 (p. 548).

Wright, Cyril Ernest, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 253-54.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Pseudo-Cicero, 1st century BC,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000139322910,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/305360068
Tullius Cicero, Marcus, 106 BC-43 BC,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000139322910,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/78769600

Places:

Florence, Italy