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Harley MS 2711

Record Id:

040-002048542

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002048542

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x0003d9

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 2711

Title:

Sallust, De coniuratione Catilinae; De bello Jugurthino; Poggio Bracciolini, Invectiva in Franciscum Philelphum; Invectiva II in Franciscum Philelphum; Epistola ad Laurentium Aretinum

Scope & Content:

This manuscript contains two works by the Roman historian Sallust (b. 86, d. c. 35 BC): De coniuratione Catilinae (On the Catiline Conspiracy) and De bello Jugurthino (On the Jugurthine War). It also includes two invectives by the Italian scholar and humanist Poggio Bracciolini (b. 1380, d. 1459), directed towards his contemporary Francesco Filelfo (b. 1398, d. 1481).

The manuscript was possibly written by the scribe Christoforo Schioppo of Verona.

Contents:

f. 1*r-v: added inscriptions, written in Latin.

ff. 1r-48v: Sallust, De coniuratione Catilinae, imperfect at the end.

ff. 49r-141v: Sallust, De bello Jugurthino, imperfect at the beginning.

ff. 142r-151v: Poggio Bracciolini, Invectiva in Franciscum Philelphum, beginning, 'Impurissimam atque obscenissimam fetulenti'.

ff. 152r-159v: Poggio Bracciolini, Invectiva II in Fransciscum Philelphum, beginning, 'Statueram mihi unica tantum defensione'.

ff. 160r-163r: Poggio Bracciolini, Epistola ad Laurentium Aretinum in Cyriacum Anconitatum, beginning, 'Oblata est mihi nuper, mi Leonarde'.

f. 164v: added pen-trials and ownership inscriptions, written in Latin and Italian.

ff. 163v-164r are blank.

Decoration:

2 large initials in colours and gold with knotwork motifs (ff. 1r, 142r). Coat of arms in colours in the lower margin (f. 1r). 22 initials in gold initials on coloured grounds (ff. 3v, 4v, 12r, 13v, 15r, 29v, 34r, 38v, 51r, 54v, 58r, 63r, 68r, 73v, 112r, 115v, 124r, 133v, 134r, 139r, 152r, 160r). Rubrics, marginal notes and colophon in red.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002048542

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 2711 : Sallust, De coniuratione Catilinae; De bello Jugurthino; Poggio Bracciolini, Invectiva in Franciscum Philelphum; Invectiva II…

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[2712]/040-002048542

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:

1449

End Date:

1449

Date Range:

1449

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment.

Dimensions: 175 x 110 mm (written space: 110 x 55 mm).

Foliation: ff. 1* + 164 ( + 3 unfoliated paper flyeaves at the beginning + 5 unfoliated ruled parchment leaves after f. 1* + 7 unfoliated ruled parchment leaves after f. 163 + 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end).

f. 1* is a parchment leaf.

Horizontal catchwords.

Ruled in hardpoint.

Script: Humanistic cursive, possibly written by Christoforo Schioppo of Verona.

Binding: Post-1600. 'Harleian' binding of gold-tooled red leather; marbled endpapers.

Custodial History:

Origin: Fano, Italy.

Provenance:

Written in Fano in 1449: colophon, 'C. Crispi Sallustii de Bello Iugurtino liber explicit foeliciter. Fani 1449' (f. 141v).

Schioppo family of Verona: its arms (f. 1r), according to unpublished notes of A. C. de la Mare at the Bodleian Library, Oxford, who also remarks that the manuscript may have been written by Christoforo Schioppo of Verona.

Inscribed: 'div 22 maij 1573 hoc...' (f. 164v).

Thomas Becell: his 16th-century ownership inscription, 'Thome Becelli' (f. 1*).

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. 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), no. 2711.

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. 69.

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. 696.

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:

Becell, Thomas, fl 16th century
Bracciolini, Poggio, scholar and humanist, 1380-1459,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/19722038
Sallustius Crispus, Caius, 86BC-c 35BC

Places:

Fano, Italy