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Harley MS 2663
- Record Id:
- 040-002048494
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048494
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x000369
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2663
- Title:
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Livy, Ab urbe condita
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-151v: Livy, Ab urbe condita, written by two scribes, possibly Michael de Salvaticis (ff. 1r-103v) and Taddeo Querino of Brescia (ff. 104r-151v), in 1454: colophon, 'die Lune 10 Marcii 1454 incepi presentem scribere' (f. 1r).
f. 152: A ruled parchment leaf , inscribed: 'nomem meum non pono quia laudare non volo si tamen... scrire....' (f. 152v).
Decoration:
Full knotwork border with a very large initial in colours and gold and a coat of arms in the lower margin (f. 1r). 9 large initials in purple with knotwork motifs on gold grounds (ff. 16v, 32r, 51v, 67v, 82v, 94r, 105v, 119v, 135r). 1 small initial in colours on a gold ground (f. 1v).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002048494", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 2663: Livy, Ab urbe condita" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002048494 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 2663 : Livy, Ab urbe condita - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[2664]/040-002048494
- 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:
- 1454
- End Date:
- 1454
- Date Range:
- 1454
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 320 x 225 (210 x 140) mm.
Foliation: ff. 152 (+ 3 unfoliated paper and 1 parchment flyleaf at the beginning and at the end).
Script: Humanistic, written by two scribes, possibly Michael de Salvaticis (ff. 1r-103v) and Taddeo Querino of Brescia (ff. 104r-151v).
Binding: Post-1600. 'Harleian' binding of gold-tooled red leather; marbled endpapers; gilt edges.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Italy, perhaps Padua.
Provenance:
Written in 1454: colophon, 'die Lune 10 Marcii 1454 incepi presentem scribere' (f. 1r).Inscribed: 'nomem meum non pono quia laudare non volo si tamen... scrire....' (f. 152v).Unidentified arms in the shape of a bisected axe head in a red roundel, with a black eagle poised on a sword on a gold ground in the upper half, two crossed swords on a blue ground in the lower half, and the initials 'V' and 'B' on either side (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 (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 ‘20 die Januarij 1721/22’ (f. [iii] 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: Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts, http://www.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. 2663.
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. 57, 58, 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. 689.
Michael D. Reeve, 'The Place of P in the Stemma of Livy 1-10', in Medieval Manuscripts of the Latin Classics: Production and Use, ed. by Claudine A. Chavannes-Mazel and Margaret M. Smith (Leiden: Anderrson-Lovelace and the Red Gull Press, 1996) pp. 75-90 (p. 89).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)