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Harley MS 2609

Record Id:

040-002048440

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002048440

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x0002b3

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 2609

Title:

Horace, Odes

Scope & Content:

A 12th-century school-copy of the Odes of Horace with interlinear and marginal glosses.

Contents:

f. 1r: Pseudo-Acro Helenius, Life of Horace, begins ‘Horatius Quintus Flaccus praecone patre natus…’.

f. 1r-1v: Pseudo-Acro Herenius Second Life of Horace, begins ‘Horatius Flaccus libertino patre natus…’.

f. 1v: Pseudo-Acro Helenius, Metrical introduction to the Odes, begins ‘Metrum asclepyadeum quod componitur ex spondee.

ff.1v-24r: Quintus Horatius Flaccus, Odes, with interlinear glosses and extensive marginal annotations on ff. 20v-24v.

f. 25r: Added text of Horace, Odes iii. 12 ‘Miserarum est neque amori dare ludum', written on the back of a small piece of paper pasted onto a modern flyleaf.

f. 25v: Square fragment of an early modern private letter in Spanish on paper, pasted onto a modern flyleaf.

Decoration:

Initials in brown ink, some with penwork decoration.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002048440

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 2609 : Horace, Odes

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[2610]/040-002048440

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:

1150

End Date:

1174

Date Range:

2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 225 x 140 (175 x 90) mm.

Foliation: ff. 25 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 3 at the end).

Script: Protogothic.

Binding: Post-1600. Binding of brown mottled calf with gold fillets. Marbled endpapers.

Custodial History:

Origin:

Probably Spain or Italy: Munk Olsen, L’Étude (1982), p. 460.

Provenance:

The Jesuit College in Agen (Lot-et-Garonne, France), maintained by the Jesuits from 1591 to 1762: inscribed, 17th century 'Coll. Agen. Soc. Jesu. Catal. Insc.' (f. 1).

Fragment of a letter in Spanish (f. 25v), on a piece of paper later used to write a poem in Latin, post-medieval (f. 25).

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:

Select digital coverage available for this manuscript; see the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts:: https://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=3793&CollID=8&NStart=2609

Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), II (1808), no. 2609.

C. E. Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), p. 47.

B. Munk Olsen, L’Étude des auteurs classiques latins aux XIe et XIIe siècles, 3 vols (Paris: Centre national de la recherche scientifique, 1982-1989), I, p. 460 no. C. 88.

Claudia Villa, 'I manoscritti di Orazio, III', Aevum, 68 (1994), 117-46 (p. 130).

Birger Munk Olsen, 'The Production of the Classics in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries', in Medieval Manuscripts of the Latin Classics: Production and Use, ed. by Claudine A. Chavannes-Mazel and Margaret M. Smith (Leiden: Anderrson-Lovelace and the Red Gull Press, 1996), pp. 1-17 (p. 14 n. 118).

Robert Black, 'The Rise and Fall of the Latin Classics: the Evidence of Schoolbook Production in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Italy,' Ævum 91 (2017), 411-64 (p. 430 n. 130.)

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Acron, Helenius, commentator and grammarian, 2nd or 3rd century
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
Jesuit College, Agen, France