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Harley MS 2608
- Record Id:
- 040-002048439
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048439
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x0002b2
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100059308782.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2608
- Title:
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Publius Papinius Statius, Thebais
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains the epic poem Thebais (Thebaid) by the Roman poet Publius Papinius Statius (b. 45, d. 96).
Contents:
ff. 2r-110r: Publius Papinius Statius, Thebais, with marginal and interlinear glosses, preceded by a verse of the 5th-century poet Coelius Sedulius (fl. 5th century): ‘pone supercilium si te cognoscis amicum’ and a rubric ‘Incipit liber primus Stacii Thebaidos’, beginning: ‘Fraternas acies alternaque regna’.
f. 110r: An anonymous epigram in six hexameter verses followed by an inscription in capital letters.
[f. 110v is blank].
Decoration:
1 large initial in colours with acanthus leaves and zoomorphic motifs (f. 40v). Large initials in blue with red penwork decoration, or in green, or green and yellow with red penwork decoration. Large initials in red, some plain, some with simple decorative motifs. Small plain initials in green or red. Rubrics in red. Capitals marked in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- England and France 700-1200 Project
Harley Collection - Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002048439", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 2608: Publius Papinius Statius, Thebais" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002048439 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 2608 : Publius Papinius Statius, Thebais - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[2609]/040-002048439
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100059308782.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1150
- End Date:
- 1174
- Date Range:
- 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 230 x 115 mm (text space: 185 x 75 mm).
Foliation: ff. 110 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 2 at the end).
Script: Protogothic.
Binding: Post-1600. Brown leather covers with gold-tooling; marbled endpapers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
France.
Provenance:
Various unidentified medieval owners: their marginal and interlinear notes throughout in black and brown ink in a variety of hands from the 12th to the 15th centuries.
? 'Paulus', unidentified medieval owner: inscribed with his name ‘Paulus ego sum’ (f. 110v).
The Jesuit College in Agen (Lot-et-Garonne, France): inscribed with its ownership note in a 17th-century hand, 'Coll. Agen. Soc. Jesu. Cat. Insc.' (f. 2r).
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.
- Information About Copies:
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Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk.manuscripts/.
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- 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. 703 (no. 2608).
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. 47.
Birger Munk Olsen, L’Étude des auteurs classiques latins aux XIe et XIIe siècles, 3 vols (Paris: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 1982-1989), II (1985), pp. 541-42 (no. C. 52).
David Anderson, 'Boccaccio Glosses on Statius', Studi sul Boccaccio, 22 (1994), 3-134 (p. 41 n. 59, p. 125).
Harald Anderson, The Manuscripts of Statius, 3 vols (Arlington, Virginia: Anderson, 2009), I, pp. 201-02 (no. 306).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Notes:
- This manuscript is part of The Polonsky Foundation England and France Project: Manuscripts from the British Library and the Bibliothèque nationale de France, 700-1200.