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Harley MS 2553
- Record Id:
- 040-002048384
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048384
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x000195
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2553
- Title:
- Virgil, Aeneid
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-248r: Virgil, Aeneid.
The manuscript contains later additions:
Copiously annotated throughout in 15th-century hands, including an ink drawing with ships (f. 80v).
ff. 249r-249v: Latin verses, beginning: 'Bartholomie omnes forma'; written in 15th-century hands.
Decoration:
Large initial drawn crudely in brown ink with interlace at the beginning of each book (ff. 1r, 2r, 21r, 41r, 59r), but spaces for initials left blank from book 5 onwards. Rubrics and paraphs in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002048384", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 2553: Virgil, Aeneid" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002048384 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 2553 : Virgil, Aeneid - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[2554]/040-002048384
- 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:
- 1442
- End Date:
- 1443
- Date Range:
- 1442-1443
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 215 x 150 mm (text space: 95 x 70 mm).
Foliation: ff. 249 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end); f. 249 is a paper fragment; 5 unfoliated ruled blank leaves after f. 249. Original foliation throughout the manuscript.
Script: Gothic.
Binding: Post-1600. Binding of brown mottled calf with gold fillets and blind tooling.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Italy.
Provenance:
Written by Johannes Virginis in 1442-1443: inscribed his name in a colophon on f. 248r: '[...] Hoc ego qui scripsi magna cum laude Johannes Virginis et finem feliciter ipse peregi [...] Mille quater centum cum denis quatuor anni et duo sunt istis perfecte connumerandi Interna fuit hoc Augusti luce serena', and below 'Gratia sit Christo. Nam finis tradita libro. Amen 1443' [the year ‘1443’ is written in red ink]. This manuscript may be in the same hand as Harley MS 2552 (see Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts (1979), no. 668).
An unknown owner: their partly visible shelfmark on ff. [250]recto and [252]recto.
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), no. 668.
R. D. Williams and T. S. Pattie, Virgil: His Poetry through the Ages (London: The British Library, 1982), p. 132.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Vergilius Maro, Publius, 70 BC-19 BC,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000430695667 - Places:
- Italy