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Harley MS 2708
- Record Id:
- 040-002048539
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048539
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x000396
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2708
- Title:
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Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus, Ad Octavianum Augustum de progenie sua et urbis Rome regiminibus
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains a copy of Ad Octavianum Augustum de progenie sua et urbis Rome regiminibus (To Augustus on his children and the rulers of the city of Rome), a Latin treatise on the great Roman families attributed to the general and literary patron Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus (b. 64 BC, d. 8 or c. 12).
The manuscript is now bound with Harley MS 3332.
Contents:
ff. 1r-14v: Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus, Ad Octavianum Augustum de progenie sua et urbis Rome regiminibus, beginning, 'Cum frequenter me Digna moveat postulatio tua gentium'.
Decoration:
Initials in blue and red. Rubrics and marginal notabilia in purple.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002048539", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 2708: Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus, Ad Octavianum Augustum de progenie sua et urbis Rome regiminibus" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002048539 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 2708 : Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus, Ad Octavianum Augustum de progenie sua et urbis Rome regiminibus - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[2709]/040-002048539
- 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:
- 1450
- End Date:
- 1474
- Date Range:
- 3rd quarter of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 175 x 110 mm (written space: 105 x 70 mm).
Foliation: ff. 14 (+ 2 unfoliated original ruled blank leaves at the beginning and 3 at the end, and one early modern paper flyleaf at the beginning).
Script: Humanistic cursive.
Binding: Post-1600. 18th-century binding of gilt-tooled mottled brown leather; gilt edges. The manuscript is now bound with Harley MS 3332.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
North-East Italy (possibly Padua).
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: purchased by Edward Harley on 20 January 1721/2 (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 254).
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 Januarij, 1721/22’ (first original blank before f. 1r; see Diary (1966), I, p. 138 n. 8, Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 254). 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. 2708.
Alfred Fairbank, 'Bartolomeo Sanvito', Journal of the Society for Italic Handwriting, 37 (1963), 14-19 (p. 19: wrongly cited as Harley 3332).
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. 8.
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, 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:
- Noel, Nathaniel, bookseller, fl 1681, d c 1753
- Places:
- Padua, Italy