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Harley MS 2705
- Record Id:
- 040-002048536
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048536
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x000393
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2705
- Title:
- Justinus, Epitome historiarum Pompeii Trogi
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains a copy of the Epitome historiarum Pompeii Trogi (Epitome of the Histories of Pompeius Trogus) by the Roman historian Marcus Junianus Justinus (fl. 2nd century), also known as Justin.
The manuscript's scribe Christoforo Schioppo of Verona was also responsible for Harley MS 3649, written in 1446; Vatican Library, MS Barb. lat. 90, written in 1454; and the former Phillips MS 23250, written in 1451.
Contents:
ff. 1r-202v: Justin, Epitome historiarum Pompeii Trogi.
The manuscript contains a number of later additions:
ff. 203r-215v: notes relating to Justin's Epitome, added in the late 15th century;
f. 216v: a series of inscriptions, now effaced;
ff. 217r: an alchemical recipe in Italian, added in the 16th century.
[ff. 216r and 217v are blank].
Decoration:
1 large initial in gold and colours with interlace combined with a partial decorated border with flowers and heraldry (f. 1r). Smaller initials in blue marking the beginning of each book (ff. 1v, 11r, 27v, 33r, 37r, 45r, 51r, 55v, 59v, 65r, 66v, 77v, 88v etc). Marginal notes in green, purple, and red ink, sometimes accompanied by a small decorative motif (e.g. 21r, 32v).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002048536", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 2705: Justinus, Epitome historiarum Pompeii Trogi" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002048536 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 2705 : Justinus, Epitome historiarum Pompeii Trogi - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[2706]/040-002048536
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Italian
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1454
- End Date:
- 1454
- Date Range:
- 1454
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment (ff. 1-202, 216-217), Paper (ff. 203-215).
Dimensions: 175 x 100 mm (text space: 105 x 55 mm).
Foliation: ff. 217 (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf and 1 unfoliated parchment flyleaf at the beginning + 1 unfoliated paper leaf and 3 unfoliated parchment leaves after f. 215 + 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the end).
Script: Humanistic cursive.
Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Italy, Central (Pesaro).
Provenance:
Written by Christoforo Schioppo of Verona for himself or another member of his family in 1454: colophon reads, 'Celeberimi Justini historici finis per Chrystophorum Schioppum veronensem Pisauri [Pesaro] iiijo Nonas Aprilis moccccolijo'; his arms (f. 1r; see Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts (1979), no. 694).
Caesar Fronton de la Daidasière, 1717-1719: inscribed, 'Hic liber pertinet ad me Caesarem fronton de la Daidasiere. 1717' (f. 1r) and, 'Hic liber pertinet ad me Caesarem fronton de la Daidasiere. aa. 267 2 apr. 1719' (f. 202v).
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 1724 (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), pp. 253-54).
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 Januarij 1724’ (f. [ii]r). 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. 2705.
The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by C. E. Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), II: 1723-1726, p. 269 n. 12.
C. E. Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 158, 253-54.
Andrew G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c. 700-1600 in The Department of Manuscripts: The British Library, 2 vols (London: British Library, 1979), no. 694.
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. 166.
Rino Avesani, 'Felicianerie', in L'Antiquario Felice Feliciano Veronese: tra epigrafia antica, letteratura e arti del libro: Atti del Convegno di Studi, Verona, 3-4 giugno 1993, ed. by Agostino Conto and Leonardo Quaquarelli (Padua: Antenore, 1995), p. 6.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Junianus Justinus, Marcus, Mid-2nd century-Late 4th century,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121244766,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/24616821
Noel, Nathaniel, bookseller, fl 1681, d c 1753 - Places:
- Pesaro, Italy