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Harley MS 2715
- Record Id:
- 040-002048546
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048546
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x0003dd
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2715
- Title:
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Macrobius, Saturnalia
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-191r: Macrobius, Saturnalia.
[f. 191v is blank].
Decoration:
1 miniature in colours and gold of a banquet at the beginning of the text, combined with a three-sided border with foliate decoration, flowers, musician putti, birds and a lion holding coats of arms, in the lower margin, a wreath enclosing a lion supporting a coat of arms (f. 1r). Large initials in gold on a blue, red and green panel, with besants extending into the margin at the beginning of each book (e.g. ff. 61v, 74v, 98v, 105r, 139r, 156v). Smaller initials in gold on blue, red, and/or green.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002048546", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 2715: Macrobius, Saturnalia" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002048546 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 2715 : Macrobius, Saturnalia - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[2716]/040-002048546
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
Latin - Scripts:
- Greek
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: 255 x 160 mm (text space: 160 x 85 mm).
Foliation: ff. 191 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end).
Script: Humanistic.
Binding: Post-1600. 'Harleian' binding of gold-tooled red leather; marbled endpapers, gilt edges.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Italy, Central (?Pesaro)
Provenance:
Made for a member of the Sforza family, of Pesaro, possibly Alessandro Sforza, lor of Pesaro (b. 1409, d. 1473), book collector: numerous heraldic devices, arms (dragon wings, ring, etc), and motto 'A bon foy' (f. 1r).
Inscribed 'Ho: es', in a post-medieval hand (f. 1r).
Robert Burscough (b. 1650/51, d.1709), prebendary of Exeter in 1701, archdeacon of Barnstaple in 1703, rector of Cheriton Bishop in 1705: sold by his widow on 17 May 1715 to Robert Harley, along with other manuscripts (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), pp. 87-88; Diary (1966), p. 11. n. 6).
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 ‘17 Maij 1715' (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. 2715.
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. 11 n. 6.
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. 87-88.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Burscough, Robert, Church of England clergyman, 1650/51-1709
Theodosius Macrobius, Ambrosius, c 370-c 435,
see also http://isni.org/isni/000000011624565X,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/39387062 - Places:
- Pesaro, Italy