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Harley MS 2501
- Record Id:
- 040-002048332
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048332
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x0000e1
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2501
- Title:
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Virgil, Aeneid
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-162v: Publius Virgilius Maro [Virgil], Aeneid.
The manuscript contains numerous additions: some parts are heavily annotated, or feature minor annotations and pen-trials, in a cursive 15th-century hand and later hands.
Decoration:
Large initial in red with brown penwork decoration (f. 1r). Spaces for initials left blank. Some initials added by various hands.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002048332", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 2501: Virgil, Aeneid" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002048332 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 2501 : Virgil, Aeneid - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[2502]/040-002048332
- 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:
- 1466
- End Date:
- 1466
- Date Range:
- 1466
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 310 x 225 mm (text space: 210 x 100 mm).
Foliation: ff. 162 (+ 5 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end); ff. 161 and 162 are torn folios (loss of text); 1 unfoliated paper pastedown on f. [164]verso (note of examination).
Collation: Mostly in quires of 10.
Script: Humanistic.
Binding: British Library in-house; re-bound in 1996.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Northern Italy (Asola, Mantua?).
Provenance:
Written by Gabrielle Gnuardus de Asula on 10 July 1466: inscribed with his colophon on f. 160r: 'Finis per me Gabrielle[m] gnuardu[m] de Asula die Juij 1466'.
Simon di San Vito, owned in the late 15th century: his inscription on f. 156r: 'Mi Symon filius petri simonys xochati'; and his ownership inscription on f. 160r: 'Iste liber est (?) simonis filii petri xocati de s[an]cto vito' [partly erased] (not in Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)).
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 the Harleys on 20 January 1721/22 (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. 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:
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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. 2501.
The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by C. E. Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), I: 1715-1723, p. 138 n. 8.
C. E. Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 253-54.
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, no. 658.
R. D. Williams, T. S. Pattie, Virgil. His Poetry through the Ages (London: The British Library, 1982), p. 131.
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. 160.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Vergilius Maro, Publius, 70 BC-19 BC,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000430695667 - Places:
- Asola, Mantua