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Harley MS 2502

Record Id:
040-002048333
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
040-002048333
MDARK:
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LARK:
SLARK:
Format:
ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2502
Title:

Virgil, Eclogues; Georgica; Aeneid (excerpts)

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-13r: Publius Vergilius Maro (b. 70, d. 19 BC), also known as Virgil, Eclogues (Bucolics).

ff. 13r-46r: Virgil, Georgica (Georgics).

ff. 47-136: Virgil, Aeneid (excerpts), with an excerpt of the ‘Epitome Illiados Homeri’ that elsewhere has been spuriously attributed to Pindar (b. 522/518, d. 438 BC) on f. 116r.

[ff. 46v, [46a]recto, [46a]verso, [46b]recto, [46b]verso are blank].

Decoration:

Small initials and cadelles highlighted in red and paraphs in red. Initials and cadelles with human faces (ff. 117r, 134v). Spaces left blank for decorated initials left blank throughout the manuscript.

Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Harley Collection
Hierarchy Tree:
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Hierarchy Record Ids:
032-002045828
040-002048333
Is part of:
Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

 

Harley MS 2502 : Virgil, Eclogues; Georgica; Aeneid (excerpts)
Hierarchy:
032-002045828[2503]/040-002048333
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:
1460
End Date:
1470
Date Range:
c 1465
Era:
CE
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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: 300 x 200 mm.

Foliation: ff. 137 (+ 2 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning + 6 at the end); 2 unfoliated paper leaves between f. 46 and f. 47 (f. [46a] and f. [46b]); a paper label with the inscription ‘Virgilius. Calf.’ pasted on f. 1r.

Script: Gothic cursive.

Binding: Post-1600. Brown gold-tooled and blind-stamped leather speckled binding.

Custodial History:

Origin:

Italy.

Provenance:

‘Antonius de Salvanezio’: his name in a colophon with the year 1465 on f. 46r: ‘Scriptum per me Antonium de salvanezio Anno M CCCCo lxv die xvj mensis novembris Fenitum [sic]’; the rest of the manuscript is written in the same hand and was probably produced about the same time.

John Gibson (fl. 1720-1726), dealer; sold to Harley on 23 April 1720 (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 162).

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 '23 Aprilis 1720' (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), II (1808), p. 696.

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. 35 n. 5.

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. 123 (no. 659); II, The Plates, Pl. 680.

Robert Deryck Williams and Thomas Smith Pattie, Virgil: His Poetry Through the Ages (London: British Library, 1982), p. 131 (no. 44).

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:
Italy
Related Material:

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