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Harley MS 2614
- Record Id:
- 040-002048445
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048445
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x0002b8
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2614
- Title:
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Petrarch, Vita Terentii; Terence, Comoediae, with prologues and arguments
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
The text written by written by the scribe Angelus Frassinensis: colophon, 'Terentium hunc ego dominus Angelus Frassinensis manu propria notavi' (with the words, 'i. scripsi' written above) (f. 169r).
Binding: Post-1600. Brown leather, tooled in gold; marbled endpapers
ff. 1r-3v: Petrarch, Vita Terentii (Life of Terence).
ff. 3v-169r: Terence, Comoediae (Comedies), with prologues and arguments, including:
ff. 3v-32r: Andria (The Girl from Andros).
ff. 32v-61v: Eunuchus.
ff. 61v-89r: Heauton Timorumenos (The Self-Tormenter).
ff. 89r-116r: Adelphoe (Brothers).
ff. 116v-140r: Hecyra (The Mother-in-Law).
ff. 140r-169r: Phormio.
f. 170r-v: added inscriptions and pen-trials.
f. 169v is blank.
Decoration:
7 white vine initials in colours and gold (ff. 1r, 5r, 32v, 61v, 89r, 116v, 140v). Alternating red or blue initials. Rubrics and abbreviations of protagonists' names in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002048445", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 2614: Petrarch, Vita Terentii; Terence, Comoediae, with prologues and arguments" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002048445 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 2614 : Petrarch, Vita Terentii; Terence, Comoediae, with prologues and arguments - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[2615]/040-002048445
- 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:
- 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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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Paper.
Dimensions: 220 x 140 mm (written space: 140 x 90 mm).
Foliation: ff. 170 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 unfoliated blank paper leaves after f. 4 + 2 unfoliated blank paper leaves after f. 169 + 2 at the end).
f. 170 is a paper leaf with added inscriptions and pen-trials.
Script: Humanistic cursive, written by the scribe Angelus Frassinensis.
Binding: Post-1600. Brown leather, tooled in gold; marbled endpapers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Northern Italy (possibly Venice).
Provenance:
Written by Angelus Frassinensis: his colophon, 'Terentium hunc ego dominus Angelus Frassinensis manu propria notavi' (with the words, 'i. scripsi' written above) (f. 169r).
Added notes and glosses in various fifteenth-century and later hands.
An effaced ownership inscription (barely visible): 'Hic liber est Galeatii (?) de Boloniis de Nov...(?)' (f. 170v).
Giovanni Francesco Vaca, late-sixteenth century: inscribed: 'Loci s. Francisci a Vinea Venetis ex testamento Io. Francisci Vaca' (f. 1r).
The Library of San Francesco della Vigna at Venice: given by Giovanni Francesco Vaca (see above).
A monastic library founded or endowed by the Guicciardini (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)).
John Gibson (fl. 1720-1726), dealer; sold to Robert Harley on 13 February 1723/4 (Diary (1966), II, p. 217 n. 16; Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)).
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. 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:
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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. 2614.
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. 16.
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. 157, 162, 174, 335, 337.
Nicholas Mann, Petrarch Manuscripts in the British Isles, Censimento dei Codici Petrarcheschi, 6 (Padova: Editrice Antenore, 1975), no. 102.
Cyril Ernest Wright, 'Manuscripts of Italian Provenance in the Harleian Collection in the British Museum: Their Sources, Associations and Channels of Acquisition', in Cultural Aspects of the Italian Renaissance. Essays in Honour of Paul Oskar Kristeller, ed. by C. H. Clough (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1976), pp. 462-84 (p. 467).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Angelus Frassinensis, Italian scribe, fl 15th century
Gibson, John, book-dealer, fl 1720-1726
Petrarca, Francesco, poet, 1304-1374
Terentius Afer, Publius, 195 BC-159 BC
Vaca, Giovanni Francesco, fl 16th century - Places:
- Venice, Italy