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Harley MS 2753

Record Id:

040-002048584

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002048584

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x000017

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 2753

Title:

Claudianus Claudius, Carmina maiora; Carmina minora; De Raptu Proserpinae

Scope & Content:

This manuscript contains a collection of works of the Alexandrian poet Claudianus Claudius (d. after 404), commonly known as Claudian.

Contents:

ff. 1r-6r: Claudianus Claudius, In Rufinum (Against Rufinus), with preface beginning, 'Phebeo domitus phiton'.

ff. 6r-9r: Claudianus Claudius, De Bello Gildonico (On the Gildonic War), with preface beginning, 'Pandite defensum reduces'.

ff. 9r-16r: Claudianus Claudius, In Eutropium (Against Eutropius), in two books, beginning, 'Semiferos partus, metuenda'.

f. 16r-v: Claudianus Claudius, Fescennina de Nuptiis Honorii Augusti (Fescennine Verses on the Marriage of Honorius Augustus), beginning, ‘Princeps chorusco sidere pulcrior’.

ff. 16v-18v: Claudianus Claudius, Epithalamium de Nuptiis Honorii Augusti (Epithalamium for the Marriage of Honorius Augustus), beginning, ‘Surgeret in thalamum’.

ff. 18v-20r: Claudianus Claudius, Panegyricus de Tertio Consulatu (Panegyric on the Third Consulship), beginning, ‘Paruos non aquilis’.

ff. 20r-23v: Claudianus Claudius, Panegyricus de Quarto Consulatu (Panegyric on the Fourth Consulship), beginning, ‘Auspiciis iterum sese regalibus annus’.

ff. 23v-26r: Claudianus Claudius, Panegyricus Dictus Manlio Theodoro Consuli (Panegyric on Consul Manlius Theodorus), with preface beginning, ‘Audebis non precor docte’.

ff. 26r-33r: Claudianus Claudius, De Consulatu Stilichonis (On the Consulship of Stilicho), three books, beginning, ‘Continuant superi pleno’.

ff. 33r-37r: Claudianus Claudius, Panegyricus de Sexto Consulatu Honorii Augusti (Panegyric on the Sixth Consulship of Honorius Augustus), with preface, beginning, ‘Omnia que sensu voluunta’.

ff. 37r-40v: Claudianus Claudius, De Bello Gothico (On the Gothic War), beginning, 'Post resides annos longo'.

ff.. 40v-48r: Claudianus Claudius, Epistolae (Letters) and Carmina minora (Shorter poems), beginning, 'Solitas galea fulgere comas'.

f. 48r-v: Claudianus Claudius, Gigantomachia (Battle of the Giants), beginning ‘Terra parens quondam’.

ff. 49r-54v: Claudianus Claudius, De Raptu Proserpinae (On the Rape of Proserpina), in three books, beginning, 'Inventa primum secuit'.

Decoration:

1 large initial in blue with a reserved line and penwork decoration in red and blue (f. 1r). Numerous smaller initials in red or blue, with penwork decoration in the alternate colour or, rarely, in both colours, occasionally with a reserved line. Verse-initials and paragraph marks frequently highlighted in red.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002048584

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 2753 : Claudianus Claudius, Carmina maiora; Carmina minora; De Raptu Proserpinae

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[2754]/040-002048584

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:

1175

End Date:

1224

Date Range:

4th quarter of the 12th century-1st quarter of the 13th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment.

Dimensions: 260 x 170 mm (written space: 215 x 140 mm) in 2 columns.

Foliation: ff. 54 (+ 3 paper flyleaves at the beginning + 2 unfoliated parchment stubs after f. 54 + 3 paper flyleaves at the end).

2 blank (?) leaves excised after f. 54. Quire marks 'i'-'vii' and quire signatures 'a'-'g'.

Script: Gothic, written above the top line. Uncrossed tironian ets.

Binding: Post-1600. Blind- and gold-tooled dark brown leather over wooden boards; marbled endpapers; rebacked.

Custodial History:

Origin: Northern France or Southern Netherlands.

Provenance:

The Cistercian abbey of St Mary, Val-St-Lambert, near Liège: inscribed, 13th century and partly erased 'Liber s[an]c[t]e (...)' (f. 54v) (see Watson, 'An Early Thirteenth-Century Low Countries Booklist' (1981), pp. 44, 45 n. 33).

Nathaniel Noel (fl. 1681, d. c. 1753), bookseller, employed by Edward Harley for buying books and manuscripts chiefly on the Continent, where his agent was George Suttie; acquired from him in 1716 for the Harley Collection (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 253).

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 ‘bought by my lord, of Mr Noel A. D. 1716' (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:

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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. 2753.

C. E. Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), p. 253.

Andrew G. Watson, 'An Early Thirteenth-Century Low Countries Booklist', The British Library Journal, 7 (1981), 39-46 (pp. 44, 45 n. 33).

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Claudianus Claudius, c 370-404,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121452012,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/246763674
Noel, Nathaniel, bookseller, fl 1681, d c 1753

Places:

Northern France
Southern Netherlands