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Harley MS 2596

Record Id:

040-002048427

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002048427

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x000266

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 2596

Title:

Juvenal, Satires

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-63v: Decimus Junius Juvenalis, Satyrae, ends in the middle of Satire 15, as last folio is lacking

f. 64r-64v: former pastedown with ruling and some annotations.

Decoration:

Early green and white vine initial in colours on a blue or pink ground at the beginning of each satire (ff. 1r, 3v, 6v, 12r, 15r, 18r, 29r, 33v, 38r, 40v, 47r, 50v, 57r, 63r).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002048427

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 2596 : Juvenal, Satires

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[2597]/040-002048427

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume.

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Undetermined

Scripts:

Undetermined

Start Date:

1425

End Date:

1449

Date Range:

2nd quarter of the 15th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 235 x 165 mm (text space 145 x 90 mm).

Foliation: ff. 64 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 2 unfoliated ruled leaves after f. 63 + 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end).

Script: Semi-humanistic.

Binding: Post-1600. 'Harleian' binding of gold-tooled red leather; marbled endpapers.

Custodial History:

Origin: Northeastern Italy, probably Venice, according to unpublished notes of A. C. de la Mare at the Bodleian Library, Oxford.

Provenance:

Various annotations in 15th-century hands (f. 64r).

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 , Fontes Harleiani (1972)): sold to Edward Harley on 18 January 1723/4.

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. 1).

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:

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Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), II (1808), no. 2596.

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. 238 n. 5.

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. 253-54.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Junius Juvenalis, Decimus, Late 1st century-Early 2nd century,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000399077077,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/83985148
Noel, Nathaniel, bookseller, fl 1681, d c 1753
Suttie, George, agent of Nathaniel Noel, bookseller