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Harley MS 2687
- Record Id:
- 040-002048518
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048518
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x000381
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2687
- Title:
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Cicero, Orationes in Verrem; Philippicae
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains copies of two collections of speeches by the Roman orator Marcus Tullius Cicero (b. 106, d. 43 BC). In Verrem (Against Verres) is a series of speeches made by Cicero in 70 BC, during the corruption and extortion trial of Gaius Verres (b. c. 120, d. 43 BC), the former governor of Sicily. The Philippicae (Philippics) are a set of 14 speeches composed in 44 and 43 BC, condemning Mark Antony (b. 83, d. 30 BC).
Contents:
ff. 1r-124r: Cicero, Orationes in Verrem.
ff.. 124v-194r: Cicero, Philippicae.
f. 194v is blank.
Decoration:
Two-sided white vine border with a large initial in colours and gold, and an unidentifed coat of arms in the lower margin framed by white vines in a different style (f. 1r). Partial white vine border with a large initial in colours and gold (f. 124v). 6 large white vine initials in colours and gold (ff. 8r, 14r, 33r, 55v, 84r, 103r). 13 smaller initials in gold on coloured panels (f. 128v, 143r, 148r, 150r, 157r, 159v, 162v, 166v, 169r, 172v, 178r, 182r, 189r). Marginal notations in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002048518", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 2687: Cicero, Orationes in Verrem; Philippicae" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002048518 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 2687 : Cicero, Orationes in Verrem; Philippicae - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[2688]/040-002048518
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1450
- End Date:
- 1474
- Date Range:
- 3rd quarter of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 335 x 225 mm (written space: 220 x 135 mm).
Foliation: ff. 194 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end).
f. 194 has been repaired with a modern piece of parchment.
Vertical catchwords.
Script: Humanistic cursive.
Binding: British Museum in-house. Rebound 3 June 1966. Red half-leather binding with the Harleian armorial bookplate, gold-stamped on the upper and lower covers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Central Italy (Florence or Rome).
Provenance:
The Strozzi family: possibly its arms of a gold circle bisected by a single silver bar with faint outlines of three crescents (partly effaced) (f. 1r).
Unidentified bookstamp of a man in ecclesiastical dress (f. 1r).
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. 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:
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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. 2687.
Richard H. Rouse and Michael D. Reeve, 'Cicero: Speeches' in Texts and Transmission: A Survey of the Latin Classics, ed. by L. D. Reynolds (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983), pp. 54-98 (p. 71).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Tullius Cicero, Marcus, 106 BC-43 BC,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000139322910,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/78769600 - Places:
- Florence, Italy
Rome, Italy