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Harley MS 2629

Record Id:

040-002048460

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002048460

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x000307

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 2629

Title:

Pseudo-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium

Scope & Content:

This manuscript contains a copy of Rhetorica ad Herennium (Rhetoric for Herennius), a book on rhetoric formerly attributed to the Roman statesman and philosopher Marcus Tullius Cicero (b. 106, d. 43 BC).

Contents:

ff. 1r-134r: Pseudo-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium.

[f. 134v is blank].

Decoration:

A large initial in colours at the beginning of each book, including 3 white vine initials (ff. 1r, 50v, 75v), and 1 with interlace (f. 18v). Coloured letters in red. Catchwords decorated with brown ink.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002048460

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 2629 : Pseudo-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[2630]/040-002048460

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:

1449

Date Range:

1st half of the 15th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment.

Dimensions: 195 x 125 mm (text space: 130 x 60 mm).

Foliation: ff. 134 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end).

Script: Humanistic.

Binding: Post-1600. 'Harleian' binding of gold-tooled red leather; marbled endpapers; author name and title written on the fore-edge.

Custodial History:

Origin: Northern Italy.

Provenance:

Nathaniel Noel (fl. 1681, d. c. 1753), bookseller, employed by Edward Harley for buying books and manuscripts chiefly on the Continent, where his agent was George Suttie; sold to Edward Harley on 20 January 1721/2 (see Diary (1966), p. 138 n. 8).

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 ‘20 die Januarij 1721/22’ (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:

Select digital coverage available for this manuscript; see the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts, https://bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/.

Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), II (1808), no. 2629.

The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by Cyril Ernest Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), I: 1715-1723, p. 138 n. 8.

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. 253-54.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Noel, Nathaniel, bookseller, fl 1681, d c 1753
Pseudo-Cicero, 1st century BC,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000139322910,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/305360068