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Harley MS 2527
- Record Id:
- 040-002048358
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048358
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x00013b
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2527
- Title:
- Terence, Comoediae
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 3r-161r: Terence, Comoediae.
The manuscript contains several additions:
f. 1v: Inscriptions, including: 'Quid est comedia, comedia est imitation vite, speculum consuetudinis, et imago veritatis'; and 'Omnium rerum vicissitude est'; added in the (?) 16th century.
f. 2r: Aelius Donatus, Vita Terentii, beginning: 'Comœdia andria cum palliata sit fabula : de loco nomen accepit'; followed by Argumentum Andriae; added in the 15th or 16th century.
Decoration:
Three-sided white vine border, and 1 large gold initial in colours and gold with a mutilated coat of arms in the lower margin (f. 4r). 7 large white vine initials in colours and gold (ff. 3r, 30r, 31r, 59r, 85r, 111r, 135r). 2 gold initials on pink and blue panels (f. 3r). Initials alternating in red or blue. Rubrics, incipits, explicits, running headers, and protagonists' names in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002048358", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 2527: Terence, Comoediae" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002048358 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 2527 : Terence, Comoediae - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[2528]/040-002048358
- 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:
- 1471
- End Date:
- 1471
- Date Range:
- 1471
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 235 x 160 mm (text space: 150 x 80 mm).
Foliation: ff. 162 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 2 at the end).
Script: Humanistic.
Binding: Post-1600. 'Harleian' binding of gold-tooled red leather; marbled endpapers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Central Italy (Rome).
Provenance:
Written by Johannes d'Anglesola in 1471: his name inscribed in a colophon on f. 161r: 'Transcriptus per me Iohannem danglesola die xvja Mensis Maii Anno M. cccc. lxxi. Deo Gracias' (see Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts (1791), I, no. 664).
Leonardus de Vernaccis, owned in the 15th century: his ownership inscription on f. 162r: 'Liber […]belli Leonardi de Vernaccis’ [partly erased] (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 338).
Dominicus Fantacij, owned in the 16th century: his ownership inscription on f. 162v: 'Hic Terentius est Dominicus Fantacij' (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 149).
'Benedictus', (?) 15th century: his name inscribed in a poem on f. 162v: beginning: 'Qui scripsit scribat semper cum domino vivat / vivat in celis benedictus nomine felix / Vivat in terra Benedictus cum pulcra puella [etc.]'.
An unknown owner: their erased ownership inscription on f. 162v.
Pandolfo di Ricasoli, baron, of Florence, owned in the 17th century: his bookstamp on f. 3r (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 285).
The convent of Discalced Carmelites, Florence, owned in the 17th century: their bookstamp, with the inscription 'CARM. Discal. S. Pauli. Flor.' [partially effaced] on f. 3 (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 153).
John Gibson (fl. 1720-1726), dealer; sold to Harley on 1 June 1720 (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 ‘1 die Junij, A.D. 1720’ (f. 2r).
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. 698.
The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by Cyril Ernest Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), I: 1715-1723, p. 50 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. 149, 153, 162, 285, 338.
Cyril Ernest Wright, 'Manuscripts of Italian Provenance in the Harleian Collection in the British Museum: Their Sources, Associations and Channels of Acquisition', in Cultural Aspects of the Italian Renaissance. Essays in Honour of Paul Oskar Kristeller, ed. by C. H. Clough (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1976), pp. 462-84 (p. 464).
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. 664.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Terentius Afer, Publius, 195 BC-159 BC
- Places:
- Central Italy
Rome, Italy