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Harley MS 2496
- Record Id:
- 040-002048327
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048327
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x0000cc
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2496
- Title:
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Terence, Comoediae
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-83v: Publius Terentius Afer (b. c. 195, d. 159 BC), also known as Terence, Comoediae (Comedies), with interlinear and marginal glosses.
f. 84v: Excerpts from Terence, Adelphoe (The Brothers).
[ff. [83a]recto, [83a]verso, 84r are blank].
Decoration:
Medium decorated initials in black ink at the beginning of the first two Comedies (f. 1r, 15r); the other Comedies open with empty spaces left for decorated initials. Medium coloured initials. Rubrics.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002048327", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 2496: Terence, Comoediae" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002048327 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 2496 : Terence, Comoediae - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[2497]/040-002048327
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1465
- End Date:
- 1465
- Date Range:
- 1465
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: paper.
Dimensions: 220 x 210 mm.
Foliation: ff. 84 (+ 2 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning + 2 at the end); 1 unfoliated paper leaf between f. 83 and f. 84 (f. [83a]); f. [83a] has a watermark of an ox head
Script: Humanistic.
Binding: Post-1600. Brown gold-tooled and blind-stamped leather speckled binding.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Italy.
Provenance:
An Italian scribe: added a colophon with the year 1465 on f. 83v: 'Tελoσ. die Lune pridie nonas novembris. 1465'
A monastery of Hieronymites at Crema, Cremona: inscribed their donation of the manuscript to an Augustinian monastery at Crema on f. 1r (‘Sancti Augustini Creme ad usum fratris hieronimi de Crema’), added in the 17th century
An Augustinian monastery at Crema, Cremona: its ownership inscription on f. 1v (‘ad usum Conventus Sancti Augustini Creme’), added in the 17th century.
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. 696.
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. 122-23 (no. 656); II, The Plates, Pl. 679.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Terentius Afer, Publius, 195 BC-159 BC
- Places:
- Italy