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Harley MS 2518
- Record Id:
- 040-002048349
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048349
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x000132
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2518
- Title:
- Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiae
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-31r: Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiae, with a gloss at the start of the text.
The manuscript contains several later additions:
ff. 29r-31r: Erased text; perhaps a palimpsest.
f. 31v: Added inscriptions in various hands including one on a scroll reading 'amore me porta' and Dante Alighieri, Divina Commedia, Cantica III, Canto XV, verses 10-12, beginning: 'bene che sença termine si dogla'; added in the (?) 15th century.
Numerous added annotations and manicula: 15th or 16th century.
Decoration:
4 large puzzle initial in red and blue with red pen-flourishing (ff. 1r, 5v, 11r, 19r). Numerous smaller initials in red or blue with simple pen-flourishing in the other colour. Capitals marked in red ink.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002048349", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 2518: Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiae" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002048349 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 2518 : Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiae - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[2519]/040-002048349
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Italian
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1300
- End Date:
- 1399
- Date Range:
- 14th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 255 x 175 mm (text space: 190 x 130 mm, with some passages in 2 columns).
Foliation: ff. 31 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 2 at the end); 1 unfoliated paper pastedown on f. [ii]recto (bibliographical notes).
Script: Gothic Rotunda.
Binding: Post-1600. Brown mottled calf, gold filet and blind-stamped decoration along the edges.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Italy.
Provenance:
Batiste de Bentivoglijs (Batista de Bentivoglio of Bologna?), owned in the 15th century: their ownership inscription on f. 31r: 'Arma nobilis viri d[omi]ni batiste de be[n]tivoliis' (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 70).
An unidentified owner, 15th century: their effaced ownership inscription on f. 31v: 'Iste liber est […]'.
Unidentified owners, (?) 15th century: their effaced ownership inscriptions on f. 31v.
‘Laurentius de Lucca’, owned in the 15th century: inscribed with his name on f. 31v.
An unidentified monastic library founded or endowed by the Guicciardini (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), pp. 173-74).
John Gibson (fl. 1720-1726), dealer; sold to Edward Harley on 13 February 1723/4 (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 ‘13 die Februarij, A.D. 1723/4’ (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), p. 697.
Codices Boethiani: A Conspectus of Manuscripts of the Works of Boethius, ed. by M. T. Gibson and Lesley Smith, Warburg Institute Surveys and Texts, 25, 27, 28, 29 (London: Warburg Institute, 1995-2001), I: Great Britain and the Republic of Ireland, no. 116, pp. 138-39.
The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by C. E. Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), II: 1723-1726, pp. 213, 216 n. 6, 274 n. 7.
Barnet Kottler, 'II. The Vulgate Tradition of the Consolatio Philosophiae in the Fourteenth Century', Mediaeval Studies, 17 (1955), 209-14 (p. 210 n. 2).
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. 70, 162, 173-74.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Alighieri, Dante, 1265-1321,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121446210,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/97105654
Boethius, Anicius Manlius Torquatus Severinus, c 480-524/525,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000122834442,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/100218964 - Places:
- Italy