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Harley MS 2607
- Record Id:
- 040-002048438
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048438
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x0002b1
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2607
- Title:
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Ovid, Epistulae ex Ponto
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains a copy of Epistulae ex Ponto (Letters from the Black Sea), a collection of poetry written by the Roman poet Publius Ovidius Naso (b. 43 BC, d. 17/18 AD), also known as Ovid. The work was composed during Ovid's exile from Rome at the port city of Tomis, on the Black Sea. It describes the rigours of his experience and expresses pleas for leniency.
Contents:
ff. 1r-59v: Ovid, Epistulae ex Ponto.
Decoration:
1 large initial in gold on a blue ground with an unidentified coat of arms in the lower margin (f. 1r). 3 large gold initials on coloured panels with simple foliate extensions (ff. 15v, 30r, 42r). Numerous plain initials in red ink. Rubrics and colophon in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002048438", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 2607: Ovid, Epistulae ex Ponto" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002048438 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 2607 : Ovid, Epistulae ex Ponto - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[2608]/040-002048438
- 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:
- 1472
- End Date:
- 1472
- Date Range:
- 1472
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Paper.
Dimensions: 230 x 165 mm (text space: 155 x 90 mm).
Foliation: ff. 59 (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning and at the end).
Script: Humanistic cursive.
Binding: Post-1600. Mottled brown calf-skin; marbled endpapers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Italy.
Provenance:
Written in 1472: colophon, 'P. Ouidij Nasonis Quartus et Ultimus de Ponto finit 1472' (f. 59v).
An unidentified Italian owner: arms of a crowned rampant white feline with black stripes in a red shield on a blue ground, encircled by a green wreath (f. 1r).
John Gibson (fl. 1720-1726), dealer; sold on 13 September 1722 (Diary (1966), p. 159 n. 7; 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 Septembris, A.D. 1722’ (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://bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/.
- 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), no. 2607.
The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by Cyril Ernest Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), I: 1715-1723, p. 159 n. 17.
Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), p. 162.
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. 680.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Gibson, John, book-dealer, fl 1720-1726
Ovidius Naso, Publius, Roman poet, 43 BC-17,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121427757 - Places:
- Italy