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Harley MS 2649

Record Id:

040-002048480

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002048480

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x00031b

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 2649

Title:

Juvenal, Satirae; Aulus Persius Flaccus, Satirae

Scope & Content:

This manuscript contains two collections of Satirae (Satires), by the Roman poets Juvenal (fl. late 1st century-early 2nd century) and Aulus Persius Flaccus (b. 34, d. 62).

Contents:

ff. 1r-73r: Juvenal, Satirae.

ff. 73r-85v: Aulus Persius Flaccus, Satirae.

Decoration:

Three-sided white vine border in colours and gold with a large gold initial, and an unidentified coat of arms of a bell with two clappers intertwined, surmounted by a fleur-de-lis, drawn in pen and ink, added in the lower margin (1r). 1 large white vine initial in colours and gold (f. 73r). 21 gold initials on coloured panels (ff. 4r, 7v, 13v, 16r, 19v, 32r, 36v, 41v, 44v, 51r, 55r, 57v, 62v, 68v, 71v, 73v, 76r, 77v, 79v, 80v, 84r). Rubrics, explicits, and incipits in red.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002048480

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 2649 : Juvenal, Satirae; Aulus Persius Flaccus, Satirae

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[2650]/040-002048480

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:

1462

End Date:

1462

Date Range:

1462

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment.

Dimensions: 210 x 150 mm (written space: 140 x 95 mm).

Foliation: ff. 85 (+ 4 unfoliated paper and 1 parchment flyleaves at the beginning + 1 unfoliated ruled parchment leaf after f. 85 + 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end).

Horizontal catchwords.

Script: Humanistic.

Binding: Post-1600. 'Harleian' binding of gold-tooled red leather; marbled endpapers; gilt edges.

Custodial History:

Origin: Ferrara, Italy.

Provenance:

Written in 1462: colophon, 'Iunij Iuuenalis Aquinatis liber fecit explicit...xxv octobris 1462' (f. 73r), and 'Explicit liber Persii...Anno domini 1462...octobris' (the specific date is obscured by a BM stamp (f. 85v).

An unidentified later owner: added arms of a bell, with two clappers intertwined, surmounted by a fleur-de-lis (f. 1r).

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 Harley on 20 January 1721/22 (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 254).

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. [v] recto). 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. 2649.

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. 254.

Andrew G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c. 700-1600 in The Department of Manuscripts: The British Library, 2 vols (London: British Library, 1979), no. 684.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Junius Juvenalis, Decimus, Late 1st century-Early 2nd century,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000399077077,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/83985148
Noel, Nathaniel, bookseller, fl 1681, d c 1753
Persius Flaccus, Aulus, 34-62,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121451431,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/100198157

Places:

Ferrara, Italy