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Harley MS 2700
- Record Id:
- 040-002048531
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048531
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x00038e
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100059310143.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2700
- Title:
- Martial, Epigrams
- Scope & Content:
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This 12th-century manuscript contains the Epigrams by the Roman poet Martial (b. c. 41-d. c. 102). Parts of the original text are missing and have been supplemented by an anonymous 15th-century scribe, possibly working in Padua, and by the scribe Bartolomeo Sanvito (b. 1435, d. 1518).
The manuscript's former binding is now stored separately as Harley MS 2700/1.
Contents:
ff. 1v-202v: Martial, Epigrams.
Decoration:
One large foliate initial in red (f. 1v). Plain initials in red, green or brown, some with pen-work decoration in various colours. Rubrics in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- England and France 700-1200 Project
Harley Collection - Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002048531", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 2700: Martial, Epigrams" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002048531 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 2700 : Martial, Epigrams - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[2701]/040-002048531
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100059310143.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1100
- End Date:
- 1199
- Date Range:
- 12th 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: 160 x 95 mm (text space: 115 x 75 mm).
Foliation: ff. i + 202 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end); 4 paper stubs between ff. 8-9; 2 stubs between ff. 13-14; 7 stubs between ff. 198-199; 2 stubs after 202; 1 blank parchment folio after f. 8 and 2 after f. 13.
Scripts: Protogothic, humanistic cursive.
Binding: British Library in-house. Rebound in 1986.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
France.
Provenance:
An unknown 15th-century owner, possibly from Padua: supplemented missing text on ff. 9r-13r.
Bartolomeo Sanvito (b. 1435, d. 1518), scribe and illustrator: supplemented missing text on ff. 198-202v, added the coloured initials, and a number of marginal and interlinear notes, variants and corrections.
Francesco di Arcoano Buzzacarini (b. c. 1440, d. c. 1500), statesman: his marginal and interlinear notes, corrections and variants in Latin and Greek.
Andrew Hay (d. 1754?), Scottish dealer and painter, owned in 1723: sold to Harley on 13 July 1723 (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani, p. 182).
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 ‘13 die Mensis Julij, A.D. 1723’ (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.
- 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), p. 708 (no. 2700).
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. 248 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), p. 183.
Michael D. Reeve, 'Martial', in Texts and Transmission: A Survey of the Latin Classics, ed. by Leigh D. Reynolds (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983), pp. 239-44 (p. 241 n. 21).
Albinia C. de la Mare and Laura Nuvoloni, Bartolomeo Sanvito: The Life and Work of a Renaissance Scribe, ed. by Anthony R.A. Hobson and Christopher de Hamel, The Handwriting of the Italian Humanists, 2 (Paris: Association Internationale de Bibliophilie, 2009), no. 67.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Notes:
- This manuscript is part of The Polonsky Foundation England and France Project: Manuscripts from the British Library and the Bibliothèque nationale de France, 700-1200.