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Harley MS 2703

Record Id:

040-002048534

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002048534

MDARK:

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LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 2703

Title:

Ovid, Fasti, and Remedia amoris

Scope & Content:

A manuscript consisting of two parts that had been bound together by 1533 (see ‘Custodial history’). Both parts contain elegiac verse by Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), and were probably written in Germany.

The first part (ff. 1r-56v) dates to the 2nd half of the 12th century; the second part (ff. 57r-67v) dates to the 2nd half of the 13th century.

Contents:

f. 1r: A medieval (or possibly early modern) parchment flyleaf, with an added note of the contents by early 16th-century owner, Carl Peutinger.

ff. 2r-56v: Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), Fasti (The Festivals), with some marginal glosses, preceded by an anonymous preface (f. 2r), beginning: ‘Varia Ovidii sunt [quasi?] opere religiones’; written in the 2nd half of the 12th century.

ff. 57r-67v: Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), Remedia amoris (The Cure for Love); written in the 2nd half of the 13th century.

Decoration:

4 large initials (between 6 and 7 lines) with foliate decoration, in two colours (ff. 2v, 11v, 21v, 30v). The first letter of each line is in red (ff. 2v-13r, 17v-18r, 40r-41r, 56v-59v).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002048534

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 2703 : Ovid, Fasti, and Remedia amoris

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[2704]/040-002048534

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:

1150

End Date:

1299

Date Range:

2nd half of the 12th century-2nd half of the 13th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 165 x 110 mm (written area: 140 x 75-80 mm (ff. 2r-56v); 140 x 85 mm (ff. 57r-67v).

Foliation: ff. 67 (+ 1 unfoliated modern paper flyleaf at the beginning + 1 unfoliated modern parchment flyleaf at the end).

Script: Protogothic (ff. 2r-56v); Gothic, written below top line (ff. 57r-67v).

Binding: Pre-1600. Blind-tooled brown leather, with rolls of vine motifs and datable to pre-1533 because of early modern ownership inscriptions.

There are holes on both the upper and the lower boards marking the placement of clasps and other metal fitting, now lacking.

Collation: Gatherings mainly of 8 leaves.

Custodial History:

Origin:

Germany.

Provenance:

Probably Conrad Peutinger (b. 1465, d. 1547), German humanist, diplomat, and politician of Augsburg.

Carolus Peutinger, son of the former, in 1533: his inscription 'P. Ovidii Nasonis Fastorum libri sex et de remedio amoris liber unus', with date 'Anno MDXXXIII', and initials 'C. P.', i.e. Carolus Peutinger (f. 1r).

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: purchased from him by Edward Harley on 20 January 1721/2 (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani, 1972, p. 264).

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, ‘20 die mensis Januarij, A.D. 1721/2’ (upper pastedown; see Wright and Wright, Diary of Humfrey Wanley (1966), p. 138 n. 7).

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), p. 708, no. 2703.

Hilda Buttenwieser, 'Manuscripts of Ovid's Fasti: the Ovidian Tradition in the Middle Ages', Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association, 71 (1940), 45-51 (p. 46).

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. 138, n. 7.

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. 254, 264, 414.

E. H. Alton, D. E. W. Wormell and Edward Courtney, 'A Catalogue of the Manuscripts of Ovid's Fasti', London University Institute of Classical Studies Bulletin, 24 (1977), 37-63 (p. 47, no. 66).

Frank T. Coulson, 'Addenda and Corrigenda to "Incipitarium Ovidianum" (II)', The Journal of Medieval Latin, 19, (2009), 88–105 (p. 98).

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Noel, Nathaniel, bookseller, fl 1681, d c 1753
Ovidius Naso, Publius, Roman poet, 43 BC-17,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121427757
Peutinger, Conrad, humanist and antiquarian of Augsburg, 1465-1547

Places:

Germany

Related Material:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, II (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808), p. 708:

'1. P. Ovidii Nas. Fastorum libri 6. XIII.

2. — de remedio amoris, liber, manu diversa. Codex membranaceus.'