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Harley MS 2669
- Record Id:
- 040-002048500
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048500
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x00036f
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2669
- Title:
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Tragoediae
- Scope & Content:
- Content:
ff. 1-204v: Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Tragoediae.
f. 205 is a medieval parchment flyleaf.
Copious notes in an early-modern hand.
Decoration:
10 large decorated foliate initials with foliate extensions into the margins, in colours and gold (ff. 1r, 24v, 44r, 55v, 78r, 96v, 117r, 135r, 153r, 170v). Small initials in red with blue pen-flourishing or in blue with red pen-flourishing. Paraphs in plain red or blue. Cadels.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002048500", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 2669: Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Tragoediae" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002048500 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 2669 : Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Tragoediae - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[2670]/040-002048500
- 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:
- 1350
- End Date:
- 1399
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 14th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Letter of introduction required to view this manuscript
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 295 x 215 (190 x 115) mm.
Collation: i-xxv 8 (ff. 1- 200), xxvi five (ff. 201-205).
Manufacturing aids (leaf signatures, catchwords).
Foliation: ff. 205 (+ 3 paper flyleaves at the beginning and 2 at the end).
Script: Gothic.
Binding: Post-1600. Harleian binding of gold-tooled red leather; marbled endpapers; gilt edges.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Italy, possibly Bologna.
Provenance:
Inscription, 15th century: 'precium presentis libri est de ducatorum xviii' (f. 205r).John Gibson, bookseller (bulk purchase from him noted in Humfrey Wanley's diary (see Wright and Wright, Diary (1966).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 '23 die Aprilis, 1720.' (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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Select digital coverage available for this manuscript, see Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/welcome.htm.
- Publications:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: [n. pub.], 1808-12), II, no. 2669.
The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by C. E. Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: The Bibliographical Society, 1966), I, 1715-1723, pp. 35, 196.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)