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Harley MS 2716

Record Id:

040-002048547

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002048547

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x0003de

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 2716

Title:

Cicero, Orationes in Catilinam; Pseudo-Sallust, Invectiva in Ciceronem; Cicero, Pro Marcello; De Officiis; Pro Ligario

Scope & Content:

This codex is composite and made up of two separate manuscripts, both made in Western Germany during the last quarter of the 10th century. The first manuscript comprises ff. 1-33 and 75-77. The second comprises ff. 34-74.

Contents:

ff. 1r-24r: Cicero, Orationes in Catilinam (Catiline Orations);

ff. 24r-29r: Pseudo-Sallust, Invectiva in Ciceronem (Invective against Cicero);

ff. 29r-33v, 75r-v: Cicero, Pro Marcello (On behalf of Marcellus);

ff. 34r-74r: Cicero, De Officiis (On duties);

ff. 75v-76v: Cicero, Pro Ligario (On behalf of Ligarius).

Decoration:

Initials in dark red. Titles in display capitals in ink. A marginal sketch of an interlaced ornament (f. 21v). Added title in red capitals (f. 24). Colophon in display capitals in dark red (f. 74r).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002048547

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 2716 : Cicero, Orationes in Catilinam; Pseudo-Sallust, Invectiva in Ciceronem; Cicero, Pro Marcello; De Officiis; Pro Ligario

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[2717]/040-002048547

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:

0975

End Date:

0999

Date Range:

4th quarter of the 10th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materia: Parchment.

Dimensions: 255 x 215 mm (text space: 180 x 140/145 mm).

Foliation: ff. 77 (+ 3 unfoliated early modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end).

Script: Caroline minuscule.

Binding: Post-1600. 'Harleian' binding of gilt-tooled red morocco attributable to Thomas Elliott, with marbled endpapers; rebacked.

Custodial History:

Origin:

Western Germany.

Provenance:

The Benedictine monastery of Sts Ulrich and Afra, Augsburg: owned together with Harley MS 2610; called 'codex Anemoecii' and used by Anemoecius for his editions from 1535 to 1558 (see Winterbottom, 'The Transmission of Cicero's De Officiis' (1993), pp. 222-26).

Johann Georg Graevius (b. 1632, d. 1703), German classical scholar and critic: his inscription, 'est codex optimus et praestantissimus I. G. Graevii' (f. 34r); his manuscript numbers 21 and 26; possibly sold to Wilhelm in 1703 with the rest of his library (see Clark, 'The Library of J. G. Graevius' (1891), pp. 367, 370; Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 169).

Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (b. 1658, d. 1716), owner of a library in Düsseldorf: bought the entire Graevius library in 1703 (see Clark, 'The Library of J. G. Graevius' (1891), pp. 367, 370; Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 367).

Giovanni Giacomo Zamboni (d. 1753), resident in London for the Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (c. 1723-1753), friend of Michael Mattaire, the classical scholar and historian of printing: bought the Wilhelm library sometime before 1724 through Johann Büchels (b. 1659, d. 1738); sold to Edward Harley on 20 October 1725 (see Diary (1966), p. 385 n. 6; Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), 367).

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 Octobris, A.D. 1725’ (ff. 1r, 34r). 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.

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Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: [n. pub.], 1808-12), II (1808) , no. 2716.

Albert C. Clark, 'The Library of J. G. Graevius', The Classical Review, 5 (1891), 365-72 (pp. 367, 370).

Wilhelm Köhler, 'Die Karolingishen Miniaturen', in Zweiter Bericht über die Denkmäler Deutscher Kunst (Berlin: Reimer, 1912), pp. 52-77 (p. 57).

Karl Atzert, De Ciceronis librorum de officiis quibusdam codicibus. I: De codice Harleiano 2716 (Osnabrück: Frommiana, 1914), pp. 7-20.

Marcus Tullius Cicero, De officiis: Les Devoirs. Introduction. Livre 1, ed. by Maurice Testard (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1965), p. 74.

The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by Cyril Ernest Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), II: 1723-1726, p. 385 n. 6.

Cyril E. Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 169, 367, 415.

Birger Munk Olsen, L’Étude des auteurs classiques latins aux XIe et XIIe siècles, 3 vols (Paris: Centre national de la recherche scientifique, 1982-1989), I (1982), pp. 213 no. Cic. B. 246; II (1985), p. 330, Sall. C. 59.

'Cicero' and 'Appendix Sallustiana', in Texts and Transmission: A Survey of the Latin Classics, ed. by Leighton D. Reynolds (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983), pp. 63, 65, 119, 131, 350-51.

Michael Winterbottom, 'The Transmission of Cicero's De Officiis', The Classical Quarterly, n.s. 43 (1993), 215-42 (pp. 222-26 and passim).

Marcus Tullius Cicero, De officiis, ed. by Michael Winterbottom (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994), pp. viii-ix, xviii.

Henry Mayr-Harting, Church and Cosmos in Early Ottonian Germany: The View from Cologne (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), p. 21 n. 69.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Graevius, Johann Georg, German classical scholar, 1632-1703
Pseudo-Sallust,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000107859414,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/92416118
Tullius Cicero, Marcus, 106 BC-43 BC,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000139322910,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/78769600
Wilhelm, Johann, Elector Palatine, 1658-1716
Zamboni, Giovanni Giacomo, Chargé d'Affaires of the Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt in England, d. 1753

Places:

Western Germany