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Harley MS 2504
- Record Id:
- 040-002048335
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048335
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x0000f4
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2504
- Title:
- Johannes de Floremontis, Commentarius in Valerium Maximum; Valerius Maximus, Facta et dicta memorabilia
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-152r: Johannes de Floremontis, Commentarius in Valerium Maximum.
ff. 153r-182r: Valerius Maximus, Facta et dicta memorabilia.
Decoration:
1 large puzzle initial in blue and red with red pen-flourishing (f. 1r). 9 smaller blue and red puzzle initials with red pen-flourishing (ff. 2r, 54v, 95v, 126v, 153r, 183r, 211r, 233r, 258r). Numerous plain red initials. Paraphs and underlining in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002048335", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 2504: Johannes de Floremontis, Commentarius in Valerium Maximum; Valerius Maximus, Facta et dicta memorabilia" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002048335 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 2504 : Johannes de Floremontis, Commentarius in Valerium Maximum; Valerius Maximus, Facta et dicta memorabilia - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[2505]/040-002048335
- 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:
- 1458
- End Date:
- 1458
- Date Range:
- 1458
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 300 x 210 mm (text space: 195 x 140, in 2 columns).
Foliation: ff. 282 (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning and 2 at the end).
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: Post-1600. Mottled brown calf with gold tooling.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Western Germany (Trier?).
Provenance:
Written in 1458: according to a colophon on f. 282r: 'Explicit liber Valerij finitus vta die mensis Maij [in red, over black 'Junij'] anno M CCCC lviijo’ (see Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts (1979), I, no. 660).
The Benedictine abbey of Santa Maria ad Martyres extra Muros, Trier, owned in the 15th century: its pressmark (‘E.11’) and ownership inscription on f. 1r: 'Codex monasterii beate marie ad martyres extra muros trevirensis ordinis sancti benedicti' (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), pp. 331-32).
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), pp. 331-32.
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. 660.
Dorothy M. Schullian, ‘A Revised List of Manuscripts of Valerius Maximus’, Miscellanea Augusto Campana. Medioevo e Umanesimo, 45 (1981), 695-728 (p. 708).
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:
- Maximus, Valerius, fl 14-37
- Places:
- Trier, Germany
Western Germany