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Harley MS 2519
- Record Id:
- 040-002048350
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048350
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x000133
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2519
- Title:
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Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-3r: Preface.
ff. 3v-13v: Table of contents.
ff. 14r-80v: Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae; ending: 'Explicit liber Avicij Mansii Severini Boecij Exconsularis Ordinarij Patricij de consolacione philosophie - Magister W. fferon'.
Decoration:
Added ink sketch of a bearded figure with an aureole (? Christ) in the lower margin of f. 30r.
The manuscript contains a later addition:
f. 81v: A long draft letter in English, beginning: 'Ryght worschypfull and dere unto yow that me hart most ys'; written in the 16th century.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002048350", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 2519: Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002048350 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 2519 : Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[2520]/040-002048350
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1400
- End Date:
- 1499
- Date Range:
- 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 250 x 170 mm (text space: 145 x 100 mm).
Foliation: ff. 81 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 2 at the end).
Collation: Indicated by catchwords.
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: British Museum in-house; red half leather with the Harleian arms gold stamped on the outside covers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
? England or France.
Provenance:
Thomas Webster, 16th century: his name inscribed on f. 81v (not in Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)).
Ambrose Bonwicke the elder (b. 1652, d. 1722), Head Master of the Merchant Taylors' School: recorded in his catalogue of manuscripts (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 76).
James Bonwicke (fl. early 18th century), son of Ambrose Bonwicke: acquired from him by the Harleian Library through William Bowyer the younger (b. 1699, d. 1777), printer, on11 September 1725 (see Diary, ed. by Wright and Wright (1966), p. 376 n. 4; Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), pp. 76, 79).
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 forms 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.
The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by Cyril Ernest Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), II: 1723-1726, p. 376 n. 4.
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. 76, 79.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Boethius, Anicius Manlius Torquatus Severinus, c 480-524/525,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000122834442,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/100218964 - Places:
- England
France