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Harley MS 2575

Record Id:

040-002048406

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002048406

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x000231

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Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 2575

Title:

Metrical and grammatical miscellany including Leonicenus Omnibonus, De arte metrica, and Gasparino Barzizza, Tractatus de punctis

Scope & Content:

A humanistic miscellany containing various metrical and grammatical treatises by classical and humanist scholars.

Contents:

ff. 1r-14v: Leonicenus Omnibonus (b. 1412, d. 1480), De arte metrica, begins 'Pes in metro dicitur quod pedis fungitur officio. Metra enim per pedes...' ends 'Explicit ars metricha Omniboni'.

ff. 15r-22v: Aelius Donatus, De Barbarismo.

ff. 23r-23v: Anonymous treatise, begins 'Prosopopeia est conformatio novae personae, quando scilicet res non loquens introducitur tanquam...', probably an excerpt from Geoffrey of Vinsauf, cf. E. Faral, Les arts poétiques du xiie et du xixe siècle, Bibliothèque de l ' Ecole des Hautes Etudes 138 (Paris, 1924), p. 275.

ff. 24r-34v: Pseudo-Priscianus of Caesarea, Liber de Accentibus, begins 'Littera est nota elementi que cum scribitur in voce minime resonat...' printed in H. Keil, Grammatici Latini, 8 vols. (Leipzig: Teubner, 1868-1910), 3 (1859), pp. 519-28.

ff. 35r-35v: Anonymous treatise on accents, begins 'Tonos alii accentus, alii tenores nominant; toni igitur tres sunt et...' cf. M. Wittek, 'À propos de deux inscriptions du Paris Lat. 10612', Scriptorium, 55 (2001), 142-45.

ff. 36r-37r: Coluccio Salutati (b. 1331, d. 1406), Ratio punctandi ('Incipit ratio punctuandi per dominum Colluthum poetam'), begins 'Licet ad placitum dici possit...' printed in S. Zamponi, 'Coluccio Salutati, Ratio punctandi', in Coluccio Salutati e l’invenzione dell’Umanesimo ed. by T. De Robertis, G. Tanturli, S. Zamponi, (Florence, 2008), pp. 203-06.

ff. 37v-55r: Gasparino Barzizza (b. 1360, d. 1430), Tractatus de punctis, begins 'Circa materiam de punctis...', probably an excerpt from Barzizza's De Orthographia, cf. R. P. Sonkowsky, An edition of Gasparino Barzizzas de compositione, (Chapel Hill 1958), pp. xiiii-xiv.

f. 55v: blank.

ff. 56r-60r: Anonymous Greek treatise on weights and measurements (De ponderibus et mensuris) translated by Ambroggio Traversari (b. 1386., d. 1439), begins 'Ponderibus gravitates dimensum iudicatur...'.

ff. 60v-68v: Alphabetical dictionary.

ff. 69r-80v: Pseudo-Apuleius, De Omni aspirationis nota, begins 'Omnis aspirationis nota aut principalis..." printed in Apuleius Minor, De orthographia fragmenta et Apuleii minoris De nota aspirationis et De diphthongis libri duo, ed. by Fridericus Osann (Darmstadt, 1826), pp. 87-119.

ff. 80v-93v: Pseudo-Apuleius, On Diphthongs, begins 'Diptongi quibus veteres utebantur Latini quattuor erant....', printed in Apuleius Minor, De orthographia fragmenta et Apuleii minoris De nota aspirationis et De diphthongis libri duo, ed. by Fridericus Osann (Darmstadt, 1826), pp. 120-46.

Decoration:

Large white vine initial in colours (f. 1)r. Large coloured initials in red, blue or green (ff. 24r, 25r, 36r, 37v, 40v, 57v, 58v, 59r, 59v, 60v, etc.). Large red initials with penwork decoration (f. 56r (x2)). Display script. Numerous small coloured initials in red or blue. Numerous initials and rubrics not painted in. Decoration with leaf pattern (ff. 24r, 35r, 55r, 59r, 60r, 69r). Decoration in red ink (f. 22v). Explicit written on a scroll drawn in red ink (f. 34v), catchword on a scroll (f. 65v). Paragraph marks in red or blue (only ff. 36r-41v). Spaces for initials left blank. According to unpublished notes of A. C. de la Mare at the Bodleian Library, Oxford, the white vine initials are painted in a Veronese style.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002048406

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 2575 : Metrical and grammatical miscellany including Leonicenus Omnibonus, De arte metrica, and Gasparino Barzizza, Tractatus de punctis

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[2576]/040-002048406

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:

1400

End Date:

1499

Date Range:

Last quarter of the 15th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: 210 x 145 (145 x 85); in 2 columns (ff. 60v-68v only).

Foliation: ff. 93 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end + 3 unfoliated ruled leaves after f. 23, 8 after f. 35, 2 after f. 93).

Script: Humanistic cursive, written by different hands but the ruling is quite consistent. Folios have been left blank at the end of several quires. Catchwords in the centre of the lower margin, or written vertically, depending on the quires.

Binding: Post-1600. Binding of brown mottled calf with gold fillets and blind tooling (restored).

Custodial History:

Origin:

Northern Italy, probably Verona.

Provenance:

Nathaniel Noel (fl. 1681, d. c. 1753), bookseller, employed by Edward Harley for buying books and manuscripts chiefly on the Continent, where his agent was George Suttie (see Wright 1972): sold to Edward Harley on 18 January 1723/4 (f. 1r).

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 ‘18 die Januarij, A.D. 1723/4’ (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 form one of the foundation collections of the British Library.

Information About Copies:

Select digital coverage available for this manuscript; see the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts: https://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=3773&CollID=8&NStart=2575

Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), II (1808), no. 2575.

The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by C. E. Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), II: 1723-1726, p. 240 n. 2.

C. E. Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 253-54.

Marina Passalacqua , I codici di Prisciano, Sussidi eruditi, 29 (Roma : Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 1978), p. 142, no.320.

G. L. Bursill-Hall, A Census of Medieval Latin Grammatical Manuscripts, Grammatica Speculativa: Sprachtheorie und Logik des Mittelalters, 4 (Stuttgart: Frommann-Holzboog, 1981), p. 117, no.125.

Paul Oskar Kristeller, Iter Italicum: Accedunt Alia Itinera: A Finding List of Uncatalogued or Incompletely Catalogued Humanistic Manuscripts of the Renaissance in Italian and other Libraries, 7 vols (London: Warburg Institute; Leiden: Brill, 1963-1997), IV (1989), pp. 162-163.

Jürgen Leonhardt, Dimensio syllabarum. Studien zur lateinischen Prosodie- und Verslehre von der Spätantike bis zur frühen Renaissance. Mit einem ausführlichen Quellenverzeichnis bis zum Jahr 1600, Hypomnemata 92 (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1989), pp. 168-69, 269-70, no B 119.

Mise en page et mise en texte du livre manuscrit, ed. by Henri-Jean Martin and Jean Vezin (n. pl.: Cercle de la Librairie-Promodis, 1990), p. 445, ill. 434 [f. 37].

Laura Biondi, 'Mai, Osann e Apuleius Grammaticus. Un testis antiquior del “De nota aspirationis” e del “De nota diphthongis”', Acme. Annali della Facoltà di lettere e filosofia dell’Università degli studi di Milano, 50/3 (1997), 65-108 (pp. 79-80).

L. Biondi, Recta scriptura. Ortografia ed etimologia nei trattati mediolatini del grammatico Apuleio, (Milano: LED 2011), p. 372, as manuscript L.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Barzizza, Gasparino, 1360-1431
Donatus, Aelius, grammarian and teacher, 4th century,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121282471
Noel, Nathaniel, bookseller, fl 1681, d c 1753
Omnibonus, Leonicenus, Vicentinus, d 1524
Pseudo-Apuleius
Salutati, Coluccio, Italian humanist, chancellor of Florence, 1331-1406,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121017539
Suttie, George, agent of Nathaniel Noel, bookseller
Traversarius, Ambrosius, Camaldulensis; obiit anno circiter 1439, 1386-1439