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Harley MS 2673
- Record Id:
- 040-002048504
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048504
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x000373
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2673
- Title:
- Ovid, Metamorphoses
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-162v: Ovid, Metamorphoses (ending imperfectly at Book 15, line 411, 'Id quoque quod ventis animal nutritur et aura', due to loss of leaves).
Decoration:
Large initial in colours with a putto and acanthus leaves extending into the margins to form a partial border (f. 1r). Large initial in colours with acanthus leaves occasionally extending into the margins at the beginning of each subsequent book, (ff. 12r, 24r, 34v, 45v, 55v, 65v, 77v, 90r, 101r, 111v, 123r, 131v, 145r, 157r; yellow used instead of gold). Coloured initials and paraphs in red. Capitals marked in yellow.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002048504", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 2673: Ovid, Metamorphoses" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002048504 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 2673 : Ovid, Metamorphoses - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[2674]/040-002048504
- 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:
- 1375
- End Date:
- 1399
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 14th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 300 x 200 mm (text space: 185 x 115 mm).
Foliation: ff. 162 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 3 at the end).
Collation: Mainly in quires of 8. Catchwords written horizontally with brown pen-flourishing and yellow (and occasionally red).
Script: Gothic.
Binding: Post-1600. 'Harleian' binding of gold-tooled red leather; marbled endpapers.
The lower margin of ff. 48, 143, 157 has been excised.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Northern Italy.
Provenance:
Effaced inscription (ff. 1r, 145r).
The Augustinian canons of the Lateran of St. Epiphanius, Pavia: inscribed, c. 1600, 'Iste liber est monasterii sti Epiphanij' (f. 1r) and similar inscription in a different hand (f. 16r).
Inscribed, 17th century, 'Dominichus de Bobis Joanis de Bobis Ambrosius de bobis' (f. 57r).
Inscribed 'Ovidio de sto Petro' in a post-medieval hand (f. 137r).
Inscribed 'MET OVID' on fore-edge.
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 (see Wright, Fontes (1972)): sold to Edward Harley on 18 January 1723/4.
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 Januarij, 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:
- 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. 2673.
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. 5.
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, 271.
Cyril Ernest Wright, 'Manuscripts of Italian Provenance in the Harleian Collection in the British Museum: Their Sources, Associations and Channels of Acquisition', in Cultural Aspects of the Italian Renaissance. Essays in Honour of Paul Oskar Kristeller, ed. by C. H. Clough (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1976), pp. 462-84 (p. 475).
Franco Munari, Catalogue of the Manuscripts of Ovid's Metamorphoses, Supplement 4 (London: University of London Institute of Classical Studies; Warburg Institute, 1957), no. 167.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)