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Harley MS 2718
- Record Id:
- 040-002048549
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048549
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x0003e0
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2718
- Title:
- Justin, Epitome historiarum Pompeii Trogi
- Scope & Content:
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Justin, Epitome historiarum Pompeii Trogi, or Epitoma historiarum philippicarum, imperfect, containing bks 1-43 out of 44, glossed.
Mistake in the numbering of the books (2 successive books numbered 39). The text ends in the middle of book 43 (mistakenly announced as book 42).
Guide letters are used, as are catchwords, which are sometimes written vertically. Leaf signatures on the verso of each folio in the first half of some quires. Written by multiple hands.
Decoration:
1 large initial in silver and colours with interlace motif and penwork decoration (f. 1). Smaller initials in red or blue.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002048549", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 2718: Justin, Epitome historiarum Pompeii Trogi" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002048549 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 2718 : Justin, Epitome historiarum Pompeii Trogi - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[2719]/040-002048549
- 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: 225 x 100 (text space: 185 x 60) (ff. 1-103); 210 x 95 mm (text space: 175 x 50 mm) (ff. 104-118).
Foliation: ff. 130 (+ 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.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Italy, N. E. (Ferrara or Padua?).
Provenance:
Initial probably painted over: late 15th-early 16th century (f. 1). According to unpublished notes of A. C. de la Mare at the Bodleian Library, Oxford, the style of the initial indicates the North East of Italy (Padua or Ferrara).
Added manicula and marginal notes in dark red ink: late 15th century? (ff. 8, 9v).
Added inscription, possibly providing a year: 16th century (f. 92v).
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.
- Publications:
- A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), II (1808), no. 2718.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)