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Harley MS 2665
- Record Id:
- 040-002048496
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048496
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x00036b
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2665
- Title:
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Statius, Thebais
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1-63v: Statius, Thebais, with some interlinear and marginal glosses.
f. 64 is a blank parchment leaf with an inscription on the verso: 'In nomine sanctae et individue Trinitatis. Eberhardus'.
Decoration: 1 large unfinished initial in black ink over plummet with acanthus motifs and a bird (f. 1v). Smaller plain initials in red. 2 simple diagrams in brown ink (f. 63r).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002048496", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 2665: Statius, Thebais" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002048496 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 2665 : Statius, Thebais - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[2666]/040-002048496
- 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:
- 1125
- End Date:
- 1174
- Date Range:
- 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 310 x 225 (230 x 140) mm in two columns.
Ruled in hard point.
Foliation: ff. 64 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end).
Script: Protogothic. Uncrossed tironian ets and ampersands.
Binding: Post-1600. 'Harleian' binding of gold-tooled red leather; marbled endpapers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Germany.
Provenance:
Inscribed, possibly in the 12th century, 'In nomine sanctae et individue Trinitatis. Eberhardus' (f. 46v).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 18 January 1723/4 (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 ‘18 die Januarii, 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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- 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. 2665.
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. 234 n. 3.
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. 254.
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), II (1985), p. 541, C. 53.
David Anderson, 'Boccaccio Glosses on Statius', Studi sul Boccaccio, 22 (1994), 3-134 (p. 125).
Harald Anderson, The Manuscripts of Statius, 3 vols (revised edition: Arlington, Virginia, 2009), I, pp. 203-04, no. 308; III, p. 6.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)