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Harley MS 2581
- Record Id:
- 040-002048412
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048412
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x000257
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2581
- Title:
- Horace, Ars poetica; Satires; Epistulae
- Scope & Content:
-
Contents:
ff. 1r-10r: Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus], Ars poetica.
ff. 10r-52v: Horace, Satires.
ff. 53r-83v: Horace, Epistulae.
The manuscript contains later additions:
f. 1*recto: An Italian inscription: 'Se questo libro asorta si p[re]dessi a ?dapitassi allemane di p[er]sona che no[n] sapessi il nome o il casato anho? Franco di filippo ?v le chiamato ec[..]'; added in the (?) 16th century.
f. 84v: Pen-trials and the inscription: 'I nazi quaranta nove [?2]409'; added in the (?) 15th century.
f. 85v: Erased Italian inscriptions; added in the (?) 16th century.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002048412", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 2581: Horace, Ars poetica; Satires; Epistulae" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002048412 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 2581 : Horace, Ars poetica; Satires; Epistulae - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[2582]/040-002048412
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Italian
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1425
- End Date:
- 1474
- Date Range:
- 2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 210 x 135 mm (text space: 135 x 85 mm).
Foliation: ff. 1* + 85 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 1 at the end); ff. 1* and 85 are medieval parchment leaves that originally served as flyleaves.
Script: Humanistic cursive.
Binding: Post-1600. 'Harleian' binding of gold-tooled red leather; marbled endpapers.
- Custodial History:
-
Origin:
Italy (? Central Italy).
Provenance:
Made for an unidentified patron: their unidentified arms with a bull, 15th century, on f. 1r.
'Antonie S[t]arie[…]', 15th or 16th century: his partially erased name inscribed on f. 85v.
A monastic library founded or endowed by the Guicciardini (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), pp. 173-74).
John Gibson (fl. 1720-1726), dealer: sold to Edward Harley on 13 February 1723/4 (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 ‘13 die Februarij, A.D. 1723/4’ (f. 1*recto).
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. 702.
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. 217 n. 19.
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), p. 163.
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. 162, 173-74.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Horatius Flaccus, Quintus, also known as Horace, 65 BC-8 BC,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121452178,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/100227522 - Places:
- Central Italy
Italy