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Harley MS 2702
- Record Id:
- 040-002048533
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048533
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x000390
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2702
- Title:
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Marcus Terentius Varro, De re rustica
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains De re rustica, a work on agriculture by the Roman scholar Marcus Terentius Varro (b. 116 BC, d. 27 BC).
Contents:
ff. 2r-245r: Marcus Terentius Varro, De re rustica (On agriculture).
[ff. 1v and 245v are blank].
Decoration:
1 miniature in colours and gold, depicting various domestic animals in a landscape, with a partial all' antica border (f. 98v). 1 full-border in colours and gold with gold tablet on blue ground, giving the author's name and the title of the work (f. 2r). 2 three-sided borders in colours and gold, one with all' antica elements and a large gold initial on a blue panel (ff. 99r, 175r). Gold initials on red or blue panels at the beginning of each chapter. Rubrics in gold. Headings of Book II and III in alternating lines of blue and gold (ff. 99r, 175r).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002048533", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 2702: Marcus Terentius Varro, De re rustica" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002048533 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 2702 : Marcus Terentius Varro, De re rustica - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[2703]/040-002048533
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- A parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1475
- End Date:
- 1524
- Date Range:
- Last quarter of the 15th century-1st quarter of the 16th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 165 x 100 mm (text space: 125 x 55 mm).
Foliation: ff. 245 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and end and + 1 unfoliated parchment flyleaf at the end).
Script: Humanistic.
Binding: Post-1600. Green leather with gold tooling; marbled endpapers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Italy.
Provenance:
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: sold to Edward Harley on 18 January 1723/24 (see 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 ‘18 die Januarij, A.D. 1723/24’ (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 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. 2702.
Fritz Saxl and Hans Meier, Verzeichnis astrologischer und mythologischer illustrierter Handschriften des lateinischen Mittelalters, ed. by Harry Bober, 4 vols (London: Warburg Institute, 1916-66), III: Handschriften in englischen Bibliotheken (1953), p. 161.
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. 242 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), p. 254.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Noel, Nathaniel, bookseller, fl 1681, d c 1753
Varro, Marcus Terentius, 116-27 BC,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121452047 - Places:
- Italy