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Harley MS 2620
- Record Id:
- 040-002048451
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x0002be
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165166610.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2620
- Title:
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L. Annaeus Florus, Epitoma de Tito Livio and T. Livius, Ab urbe condita (Periochae)
- Scope & Content:
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The manuscript includes two abridged version of Livy's Ab urbe condita: L. Annaeus Florus, Epitoma de Tito Livio (ff. 1r-43r); and the so-called Periochae, a list of contents of T. Livius, Ab urbe condita, books 1-8 (ff. 43r-46r).
Decoration: Initials originally in red and capital letters highlighted in red, now oxidized to metallic silver.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002048451", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 2620: L. Annaeus Florus, Epitoma de Tito Livio and T. Livius, Ab urbe condita (Periochae)" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "041-002353602", "parent" : "040-002048451", "text" : "Harley MS 2620, ff 1r-43r: L. Annaeus Florus, Epitoma de Tito Livio" },{ "id" : "041-002353603", "parent" : "040-002048451", "text" : "Harley MS 2620, ff 43r-46r: T. Livius, Ab urbe condita (Periochae)" }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002048451 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 2620 : L. Annaeus Florus, Epitoma de Tito Livio and T. Livius, Ab urbe condita (Periochae) - Contains:
- Harley MS 2620, ff 1r-43r : L. Annaeus Florus, Epitoma de Tito Livio
Harley MS 2620, ff 43r-46r : T. Livius, Ab urbe condita (Periochae)
Click here to View / search full list of parts of Harley MS 2620 - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[2621]/040-002048451
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1060
- End Date:
- 1140
- Date Range:
- Late 11th century-Early 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 220 x 155 mm (text space: 185 x 130 mm).
Foliation: ff. 46 (+ 6 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves: 3 at the beginning and 3 at the end).
Layout: Written in two columns.
Script: Protogothic (early transitional phase from the Caroline minuscule).
Binding: Post-1600 binding of red leather with tooled and gilt decoration; rebacked in 1969.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Germany.
Provenance:
Nicholas of Cusa [Nicholaus von Kues, or Nicholas Cusanus] (b. 1401, d. 1464), theologian, Bishop of Brixen in Tyrol in 1450 and Cardinal in 1449, founder of the hospital of St Nicholas at Cues on the Mosel: probably donated by him with his entire library to the hospital in his last will dated 6 August 1464.
The hospital of St Nicholas at Cues on the Mosel: 'Liber hospital[is] s[anc]ti Nicholai p[ro]pe Cusa[m], 15th century (f. 1r).
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, née Cavendish 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.
- Administrative Context:
- Germany
- 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. 2620.
Remigio Sabbadini, ‘Niccolò da Cusa e i conciliari di Basilea alla scoperta dei codici’, Rendiconti della Reale Accademia dei Lincei, 20 (1911), 3-40 (pp. 39-40, n. 2).
Paul Lehmann, Mitteilungen aus Handschriften, 2, Sitzungsberichte der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philosophisch-historische Abteilung, 2 (Munich: Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften,1930), pp. 3-55 (p. 18-21).
Rudolf Haubst, 'Kritisches Verzeichnis der Londoner Handschriften aus dem Besitz des Nikolaus von Kues', Mitteilungen und Forschungsbeiträge der Cusanus-Gesellschaft, 3 (1963), 16-100 (pp. 41-44).
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. 121.
Hermann J. Hallauer, 'Habent sua fata libelli. Von der Mosel zur Themse: Handschriften des St. Nikolaus-Hospitals in der Bibliotheca Harleiana', Mitteilungen und Forschungsbeiträge der Cusanus-Gesellshaft, 17 (1986), 21-56.
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. 387, no. B. 10.
P. K. Marshall, 'Florus' in Texts and Transmission: A Survey of the Latin Classics, ed. by L. D. Reynolds (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983), pp. 164-66 (p. 165).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)