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Harley MS 2521
- Record Id:
- 040-002048352
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048352
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x000135
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2521
- Title:
- Sallust, The War with Catilina; The War with Jugurtha
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 2r-22r: Sallust, The War with Catilina.
ff. 22v-62r: Sallust, The War with Jugurtha.
f. 62r: De morte Jugurthe disicon, 'Qui cupis ignotum Jugurte noscere letum / Tarpeie rupis trusus ad yma ruit'.
The manuscript contains a later addition:
f. 1v: Seneca the Younger, Epistulae 114, 7, beginning: 'Sallustio vigente anputatae sententiae et verba ante exspectatum cadentia et obscura brevitas fuere pro cultu; added in the 17th century.
Decoration:
2 large initials in red with blue pen-flourishing (ff. 2r, 29r). 13 smaller red initials, some with blue penwork decoration, others with blue pen-flourishing (ff. 3r, 7r, 10v, 11r, 13v, 15v, 17v, 20r, 20v, 22v, 23v, 25, 26v). 3 plain red initials (ff. 30r, 33r, 58v). Paraphs in red. Capitals marked in yellow.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002048352", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 2521: Sallust, The War with Catilina; The War with Jugurtha" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002048352 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 2521 : Sallust, The War with Catilina; The War with Jugurtha - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[2522]/040-002048352
- 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:
- 1375
- End Date:
- 1424
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 14th century-1st quarter of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 245 x 175 mm (text space: 165 x 125 mm).
Foliation: ff. 1* + 62 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves and 1 parchment flyleaf at the beginning + 5 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end); 1 unfoliated parchment stub after f. 62; f. 1 is a parchment leaf that originally served as a flyleaf; 1 unfoliated paper pastedown on f. [64]verso (note of examination).
Script: Semi-humanistic.
Binding: British Museum in-house; red half leather binding with the Harleian arms gold-stamped on the outside covers; rebound in 1971; red fore-edges.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Italy.
Provenance:
‘[D]elavoizier’, owned in the 15th or 16th century: inscribed with his name on f. 1*v (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 128).
An unknown late medieval or early modern owner: their name inscription on f. 1r crossed out.
‘Fr. Castrinius Karb:’, owned in the late 16th century: inscribed with his name on f. 2r (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 208).
Antonius Thysius of Antwerp, owned in 1666: his ownership inscription on f. 1r: 'Hunc MS. Codicum emi in auctione librorum Antonii Thysii anno MDCLXVI' (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 329)
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. 697.
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. 128, 208, 329.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Annaeus Seneca, Lucius, also known as Seneca the Younger, 4 BC-65,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121030100,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/90637919
Sallustius Crispus, Caius, 86BC-c 35BC - Places:
- Italy