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Harley MS 2691

Record Id:
040-002048522
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
040-002048522
MDARK:
ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x000385
LARK:
SLARK:
Format:
ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2691
Title:

Cicero, De amicitia; Guarino da Verona, Ad filium Hieronymum, Hypothesia; Pseudo-Plutarch, De liberis educandis, in a Latin translation by Guarino da Verona

Scope & Content:

This manuscript contains a number of works by the Italian humanist teacher, scholar, and translator Guarino da Verona (b. 1370, d. 1460), including his Latin translation of Pseudo-Plutarch's De liberis educandis, which he dedicated to his student Angelo Corbinelli (d. 1419).

Contents:

ff. 1r-38r: Cicero, De amicitia;

ff. 39r-47v: Guarino da Verona, Ad filium Hieronymum, Hypothesia;

ff. 47v-49r: Dedicatory epistle of Guarino da Verona to Angelo Corbinelli;

ff. 49r-80r: Pseudo-Plutarch, De liberis educandis, in a Latin translation by Guarino da Verona;

f. 81r: an added title-page, inscribed, 'Tulli[us] de Amicitia / Within / Plutarchus De liberis / educandis'.

ff. 38v, 80v, and 81v are blank.

Decoration:

Initials in blue with pen-flourished decoration in red.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Harley Collection
Hierarchy Tree:
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Hierarchy Record Ids:
032-002045828
040-002048522
Is part of:
Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

 

Harley MS 2691 : Cicero, De amicitia; Guarino da Verona, Ad filium Hieronymum, Hypothesia; Pseudo-Plutarch, De liberis educandis, in a Latin…
Hierarchy:
032-002045828[2692]/040-002048522
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:
1425
End Date:
1474
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Era:
CE
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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment.

Dimensions: 135 x 95 mm (written space: 80 x 45 mm).

Foliation: ff. 81 (+ 3 unfoliated early modern paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 unfoliated parchment leaves after f. 38 + 1 parchment and 2 paper flyleaves at the end).

f. 81 is a former pastedown.

Collation: Gatherings of 12, with horizontal catchword in the lower right corner of the last verso of each gathering.

Script: Gothic.

Binding: Post-1600. 'Harleian' binding of gilt-tooled red morocco, attributable to Thomas Elliott; marbled endleaves.

Custodial History:

Origin: England.

Provenance:

Samuel Knott (d. 1687), rector of Combe Raleigh, Devon (1661-1668), antiquary and collector of manuscripts: notes possibly in his hand (ff. 41r, 49r).

Robert Burscough (b. 1650/51, d.1709), prebendary of Exeter in 1701, archdeacon of Barnstaple in 1703, rector of Cheriton Bishop in 1705: sold by his widow on 17 May 1715 to Robert Harley, along with other manuscripts (see Diary (1966), p. 11 n. 6; Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 88).

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, ‘17 Maij 1715’, and also 'Oxford BH' (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:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), II (1808), no. 2691.

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. 11 n. 6.

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. 88, 414.

Paul Oskar Kristeller, Iter Italicum: Accedunt Alia Itinera: A Finding List of Uncatalogued or Incompletely Catalogued Humanistic Manuscripts of the Renaissance in Italian and other Libraries, 7 vols (London: Warburg Institute; Leiden: Brill, 1963-1997), IV (1989), p. 148.

Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Burscough, Robert, Church of England clergyman, 1650/51-1709
Guarino da Verona, Italian humanist and scholar, 1374-1460,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000123211124
Knott, Samuel, Rector of Combe Raleigh Devon, 1661-1668, d 1687
Pseudo-Plutarch
Tullius Cicero, Marcus, 106 BC-43 BC,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000139322910,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/78769600
Places:
England