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Harley MS 2494
- Record Id:
- 040-002048325
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048325
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x0000ca
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2494
- Title:
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Ovid, Metamorphoses
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-223v: Publius Ovidius Naso (43 BC, AD 17/18), also known as Ovid, Metamorphoses, some sections with interlinear and marginal glosses.
Decoration:
Blank spaces left for decorated initials. Rubricated numbers at the beginning of books.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002048325", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 2494: Ovid, Metamorphoses" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002048325 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 2494 : Ovid, Metamorphoses - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[2495]/040-002048325
- 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:
- 1456
- End Date:
- 1456
- Date Range:
- 1456
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 330 x 230 mm.
Foliation: ff. 223 (+ 3 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning + 6 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the end); ff. [iii], [224]-[227] contain the same watermark.
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: Post-1600. Gold-tooled and blind-stamped speckled brown leather binding.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Egmond, North-West Netherlands.
Provenance:
A scribe from Egmond in the Netherlands: his name inscribed with the date 18 January 1456 in a colophon on f. 223v: ‘Johannis Schalck de Egmonda Anno domini Mo .CCCCO. quinquagesimo sexto 18 die Januarij’; a possible ownership inscription on f. [iii]recto has been erased with ink.
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: sold to Edward Harley on 20 August 1721/2 (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 254).
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 ’20 die Januarij A.D. 1721/22' (f. [iii]r).
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. 696.
Franco Munari, Catalogue of the Manuscripts of Ovid's Metamorphoses, University of London, Institute of Classical Studies, Bulletin Supplement, 5 (London: University of London, 1957), p. 37 (no. 164).
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. 138 n. 7.
Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), p. 410.
Andrew G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c. 700-1600 in The Department of Manuscripts: The British Library, 2 vols (London: British Library, 1979), I: The Text, p. 122 (no. 655).
- 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:
- The Netherlands
- Related Material:
- A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), II (1808), p. 696.