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Harley MS 2552
- Record Id:
- 040-002048383
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048383
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x000194
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2552
- Title:
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Lucan, Pharsalia or De Bello Civili
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-201r: Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (b. AD 39, d. AD 65), also known as Lucan, Pharsalia or De Bello Civili (On the Civil War), some sections with interlinear and marginal glosses.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002048383", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 2552: Lucan, Pharsalia or De Bello Civili" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002048383 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 2552 : Lucan, Pharsalia or De Bello Civili - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[2553]/040-002048383
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1444
- End Date:
- 1444
- Date Range:
- 1444
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: paper, intersected with parchment leaves (ff. 49, 62-63, 76-77, 90-91, 104-105, 122-123, 130, 137-138, 151-152, 165-166, 179-180, 193-194).
Dimensions: 215 x 150 mm.
Foliation: ff. 201 (+ 3 unfoliated modern paper flylevaes at the beginning + 7 at the end); 1 parchment stub between f. 129 and f. 130
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: Post-1600. Harleian binding.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Italy.
Provenance:
Written by two Italian scribes in 1444: the second scribe has added a colophon on f. 201r with the year 1444 (‘Mille quatercentum cum denis quatuor anni / Bis duo si iungas numerum compleveris apte / Ter quinos adiunge dies mensis Februarij'). This scribe may be Johannes Virginis who wrote Harley MS 2553 in 1442.
An unknown 15th-century or early modern owner: inscribed a (?) pressmark on f. 1r: ‘91536 (102)’.
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. 699.
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: The Text, p. 124 (no. 667); II: The Plates, pls 468a and 468b.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Annaeus Lucanus, Marcus, Roman poet, 39-65
- Places:
- Italy