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Harley MS 2725
- Record Id:
- 040-002048556
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048556
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x0001c1
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100056036869.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2725
- Title:
- Quintus Horatius Flaccus, Opera
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains the Carmina (Odes), Ars Poetica (Art of Poetry), Epodae (Epodes), Carmen Saeculare (Hymn for a New Age), Epistulae (Letters) and Satirae (Satires) by the Roman poet Horace (b. 65 BC, d. 8 BC). It also includes marginal and interlinear glosses for the entire text.
Contents:
ff. 1r-1v: Introduction and glosses to the work of Quintus Horatius Flaccus.
ff. 2r-60r: Quintus Horatius Flaccus, Carmina, beginning: ‘Q Horatii Flacci carminum liber’.
ff. 60r-68v: Quintus Horatius Flaccus, Ars Poetica, beginning: ‘Incipit de arte poetica’.
ff. 68v-80v: Quintus Horatius Flaccus, Epodae, beginning: ‘Incipit eiusdem epodon’.
ff. 80v-82r: Quintus Horatius Flaccus, Carmen Saeculare, beginning: 'Incipit carmen seculare in Appolinem et Dianam proseutice tetracolos’.
ff. 82r-93v: Quintus Horatius Flaccus, Epistulae, beginning: ‘Incipit epistolarum liber’.
ff. 93v-97v: Quintus Horatius Flaccus, Satirae, beginning: ‘Incipit sermonum liber’.
Decoration:
Numerous small initials in oxidised red ink. Syntactic marks or glosses using a system of dots and dashes have been used.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- England and France 700-1200 Project
Harley Collection - Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002048556", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 2725: Quintus Horatius Flaccus, Opera" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002048556 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 2725 : Quintus Horatius Flaccus, Opera - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[2726]/040-002048556
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- A parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100056036869.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0875
- End Date:
- 0899
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 9th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 230 x 190 mm (text space: 180 x 170 mm).
Foliation: ff. 97 ( + 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end).
Script: Caroline minuscule.
Binding: Post-1600. Black leather; spine inscribed in gold ‘HORATII OPERA CUM SCHOLIIS’.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: ?France.
Provenance:
?Cologne Cathedral: see Clark, ‘The Library of J. G. Grevius’, p. 370; Wright, Fontes (1972), p. 109.
Johann Georg Graevius (b. 1632, d. 1703), classical scholar: see Wright, Fontes (1972), p. 169).
Richard Bentley (b. 1662, d. 1742), classical scholar: in his possession in 1703, lent to him by Johann Graevius.
Giovanni Giacomo Zamboni (d. 1753), resident in London for the Duke of Modena: purchased by him from the library of Johann Georg Graevius on 20 October 1725 (see Wright, Fontes (1972), p. 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 with the date of acquisition by their librarian, Humfrey Wanley '20 Octobris 1725' (f. [iii recto]).
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:
- Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk.manuscripts/.
- 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), p. 709 (no. 2659).
Albert Curtius Clarck, ‘The Library of J. G. Graevius’, The Classical Review, 5 (1891), 365-372 (p. 370).
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. 109, 169, 367.
Michael Korhammer, 'Mittelalterliche Konstruktionshilfen und altenglische Wortstellung', Scriptorium: Revue internationale des études relative aux manuscrits, 34 (1980), 18-58 (p. 58).
Texts and Transmission: A Survey of the Latin Classics, ed. by Leighton D. Reynolds (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983), pp. 183-84.
Bernhard Bischoff, Katalog der festländischen Handschriften des neunten Jahrhunderts (mit Ausnahme der wisigotischen), Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für die Herausgabe der Mittelalterlichen Bibliothekskataloge Deutschlands und der Schweiz, 3 vols (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1998-2014), II (2004): Laon-Paderborn, pp. 114-15.
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. 461-62 (no. B.91).
Yves-François Riou, ‘Codicologie et notation neumatique’, Cahiers de Civilisation Médiévale, 33-131 (1990), 225-280 (p. 264).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Notes:
- This manuscript is part of The Polonsky Foundation England and France Project: Manuscripts from the British Library and the Bibliothèque nationale de France, 700-1200.