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Harley MS 2505
- Record Id:
- 040-002048336
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048336
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x0000f5
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2505
- Title:
- Marcus Tullius Cicero, Epistulae ad familiares
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 2r-150r: Marcus Tullius Cicero, Epistulae ad familiares.
ff. 150r-150v: Fabritius and Emilius, letter to Pyrrhus; ending with the colophon: 'Per manus Johannis de Westphalia'.
ff. 150v-151r: Ovid, De Pulice (The Flea).
ff. 151r-151v: 'Carmen illustris quondam ducis Mediolani Gabrius Zamoreus Parmensis', verses on Giangaleazzo Visconti.
f. 151v: De monacha et iuvene, beginning: 'Me tibi teque mihi'.
Decoration:
Large initial in blue with reserved lines with red pen-flourishing, enclosing a blank coat of arms (f. 2r). Large puzzle initials in red and blue (ff. 10r, 23r, 30v, 41r, 61r, 71r, 80v, 83r, 94v, 131r, 135v, 144v), or in one colour with reserved lines (ff. 16v). 5 large initials in red with brown penwork decoration or in blue with red penwork decoration (ff. 66r, 67r, 81r, 81v, 82r). 3 initials in red decorated with brown pattern (ff. 80r, 118v, 150). Large coloured initials in red or blue.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002048336", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 2505: Marcus Tullius Cicero, Epistulae ad familiares" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002048336 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 2505 : Marcus Tullius Cicero, Epistulae ad familiares - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[2506]/040-002048336
- 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:
- 1425
- End Date:
- 1474
- Date Range:
- 2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 300 x 220 mm (text space: 200 x 135 mm).
Foliation: ff. 151 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 2 at the end); original foliation throughout the manuscript.
Collation: Indicated by leaf signatures and vertical catchwords.
Script: Semi-humanistic
Binding: Post-1600. Brown leather with extensive gold-stamps and -tooling.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Germany.
Provenance:
Written by Johannes de Westphalia: inscribed his name in a colophon on f. 150v: 'Per manus de Johannis de Westphalia'. The German scribe seems to have been trained in Italy and influenced by humanistic trends. The style of the pen-flourishing also shows Italian influence.
Johannes and Georgius Schrauff, brothers, 'doctores': owned this manuscript until 1504 when they gave it to the Charterhouse in Mainz, according to an inscription on f. 1r (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 299).
The Mainz Charterhouse, owned the manuscript from 1504, perhaps until the Carthusian monastery was burnt in the wars between 1552 and 1555, and its manuscripts were dispersed (several are now part of the Laud collection at the Bodleian Library, Oxford): according to an inscription on f. 1r that records the gift of this manuscript by Johannes and Georgius Schrauff in 1504 [see above] (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 231).
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. 231, 299.
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:
- Ovidius Naso, Publius, Roman poet, 43 BC-17,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121427757
Tullius Cicero, Marcus, 106 BC-43 BC,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000139322910,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/78769600 - Places:
- Germany