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Harley MS 2758
- Record Id:
- 040-002048589
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048589
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x00001c
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2758
- Title:
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Ovid, Heroides
- Scope & Content:
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This 14th-century manuscript contains a copy of the Heroides (The Heroines), a collection of 15 epistolary poems by the Roman poet Publius Ovidius Naso (b. 43 BC, d. 17/18 AD), also known as Ovid.
Contents:
ff. 1r-48v: Ovid, Heroides.
Decoration:
Partial foliate border in colours and gold with an historiated initial 'H'(anc) of Ovid holding a book (f. 1r). Red initials with purple penwork decoration and blue initials with red penwork decoration. Paraphs in red or blue.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002048589", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 2758: Ovid, Heroides" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002048589 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 2758 : Ovid, Heroides - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[2759]/040-002048589
- 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:
- 1350
- End Date:
- 1399
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 14th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Letter of introduction required to view this manuscript
- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 260 x 185 mm (text space: 175 x 80 mm).
Foliation: ff. 48 (+ 1 unfoliated paper and 1 unfoliated parchment flyleaf at the beginning and end).
Script: Gothic.
Binding: Post-1600. 'Harleian' binding of gold-tooled red leather; marbled endpapers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Northern Italy.
Provenance:
Marianus de Veglano: his ownership inscription, 15th century, 'Iste liber est mei mariani de veglano in Pisa' (f. 48v).
Pandolfo Ricasoli (b. 1581, d. 1657), canon of Florence cathedral: his bookstamp, 17th century (f. 1r).
The convent of Discalced Carmelites, Florence: their bookstamp, 17th century, with the words, 'CARM. Discal. S. Pauli. Flor.' (partially effaced) (f. 1r).
A monastic library founded or endowed by the Guicciardini (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 163).
John Gibson (fl. 1720-1726), dealer; sold to Harley on 13 February 1723/4 (see Diary (1966), p. 216, n. 26; Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 162).
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 ‘13 die Februarij A.D. 1723/4’ (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. 2758.
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. 216 n. 26.
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. 153, 162, 163, 234, 285.
Cyril Ernest Wright, 'Manuscripts of Italian Provenance in the Harleian Collection in the British Museum: Their Sources, Associations and Channels of Acquisition', in Cultural Aspects of the Italian Renaissance. Essays in Honour of Paul Oskar Kristeller, ed. by C. H. Clough (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1976), pp. 462-84 (p. 467).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Gibson, John, book-dealer, fl 1720-1726
Ovidius Naso, Publius, Roman poet, 43 BC-17,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121427757
Ricasoli, Pandolfo, Canon of the Cathedral of Florence, 1581-1657 - Places:
- Northern Italy