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Harley MS 2617
- Record Id:
- 040-002048448
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048448
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x0002bb
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2617
- Title:
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Ovid, Heroides
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-78r: Ovid, Heroides (The Heroines), with interlinear glosses.
ff. 78v-79r: an unidentified text in Latin, possibly a paraphrase or extract from Rolandinus Passagerii's Aurora, beginning, 'Quonia aromatu solet se natura ut longe contrita redoleant', added in the 15th century.
ff. 79v-80v: added inscriptions and pen-trials in a number of different 15th- and 16th-century hands.
Decoration:
Large initial in colours with foliate decoration (altered later)(f. 1r). Coloured initials in red. Capitals marked in yellow.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002048448", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 2617: Ovid, Heroides" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002048448 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 2617 : Ovid, Heroides - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[2618]/040-002048448
- 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:
- 1400
- End Date:
- 1499
- Date Range:
- 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Paper.
Dimensions: 215 x 150 mm (written space: 155 x 90 mm).
Foliation: ff. 80 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end).
Catchwords written horizontally.
Script: Semi-humanistic.
Binding: Post-1600. Brown mottled calf-skin with gold fillets and blind tooling; marbled endpapers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Italy.
Provenance:
Chioanes Benedicti, 15th century: inscribed 'Iste pistole sunt mei chioanes benedicti' (f. 79v).
Frater Raphaellis, of Florence: owned until c. 1507 when he gave the manucript to Johannes Franciscus de Passis, according to an inscription (f. 80r).
Frater Johannes Franciscus de Passis (Pazzi), magister, of Florence: owned from c. 1507 (inscription on f. 80r).
Numerous added inscriptions in various 15th- and 16th-century hands (ff. 79r-80v).
John Gibson (fl. 1720-1726), dealer; sold to Edward Harley on 13 February 1723/4 (f. 1r; Diary (1966), p. 273 n. 10; 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 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. 2617.
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. 273 n. 10.
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. 104, 162, 269, 281.
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:
- Chioanes Benedicti, fl 15th century
Frater Johannes Franciscus de Passis, fl Early 16th century
Frater Raphaellis of Florence, fl Early 16th century
Gibson, John, book-dealer, fl 1720-1726
Ovidius Naso, Publius, Roman poet, 43 BC-17,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121427757 - Places:
- Italy