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Harley MS 2539
- Record Id:
- 040-002048370
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048370
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x000167
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2539
- Title:
- Sallust, De coniuratione Catilinae
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-20v: Sallust, De coniuratione Catilinae (The Conspiracy of Catiline).
Decoration:
1 large (3-line) red initial in a red frame with green and yellow ground (f. 1r). 1 unidentified coat of arms (argent per fess indented gules and argent, inscribed 'I.A.8') in the lower margin of f. 1r. Smaller (2-line) initials with minor decoration in green and red (f. 2r [2x]), brown ink (f. 10v), or grey (ff. 14v, 16r, 16v, 18r, 19r, 19v) of which two (ff. 14v, 18r) feature human faces. Capitals highlighted in yellow.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002048370", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 2539: Sallust, De coniuratione Catilinae" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002048370 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 2539 : Sallust, De coniuratione Catilinae - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[2540]/040-002048370
- 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:
- 1300
- End Date:
- 1399
- Date Range:
- 14th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 210 x 145 mm (text space: 165 x 110 mm).
Foliation: ff. 40 (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning); 1 unfoliated paper strip after f. 20, containing a shelfmark and foliation inscribed at the British Museum in 1880; 1 unfoliated paper pastedown on f. 1r (Harleian shelfmarks).
Collation: Indicated by catchwords.
Script: Humanistic.
Binding: Post-1600; gold-tooled brown speckled leather with the initials 'M. B.' (Museum Britannicum) gold stamped on the upper cover; bound together with Harley MS 2542.
- Custodial History:
-
Origin:
Italy.
Provenance:
John Gibson (fl. 1720-1726), dealer: sold to Edward Harley on 28 August 1724 (Diary, ed. by Wright and Wright (1966), II, p. 312 n. 2; 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 ‘28 die Augusti, A. D. 1724' (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 forms one of the foundation collections of the British Library.
- Publications:
-
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), II: 1723-1726, p. 312 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), p. 162.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Sallustius Crispus, Caius, 86BC-c 35BC
- Places:
- Italy