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Harley MS 2761
- Record Id:
- 040-002048592
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048592
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x00001f
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2761
- Title:
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Virgil, Bucolica, Georgica and Aeneid
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains the three major works of the Roman poet Virgil (b. 70 BC, d. 19 BC): Bucolica (Bucolics), Georgica (Georgics), and Aeneid. The manuscript has been attributed to the Italian scribe Giovanfrancesco Marzi of San Gimignano (b. 1440, d. after 1494).
Contents:
ff. 1r-35r: Virgil, Bucolica;
ff. 35r-55v: Virgil, Georgica;
ff. 55v-239v: Virgil, Aeneid.
Decoration:
1 full white vine border in colours and gold, inhabited by birds, with a roundel of Virgil, another of shepherds minding their sheep, a large initial in gold on a green ground, and, in the lower margin, a wreath, intended for a coat of arms, supported by two putti (f. 1r). 23 white vine initials of various sizes (ff. 15r, 55v, 69r x 2, 83r, 83v, 96r x 2 , 110r x 2, 126r, 126v, 143r, 143v, 158r x 2, 172r x 2, 187v, 188r, 204v, 205r, 222r). 3 initials in gold on coloured grounds (ff. 25r, 35r, 45r). Numerous smaller plain blue initials. Rubrics in red or orange.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002048592", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 2761: Virgil, Bucolica, Georgica and Aeneid" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002048592 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 2761 : Virgil, Bucolica, Georgica and Aeneid - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[2762]/040-002048592
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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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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- User Conditions:
- Letter of introduction required to view this manuscript
- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 250 x 150 mm (165 x 80/90 mm).
Foliation: ff. 1* + 239 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 1 unfoliated parchment and 2 paper flyleaves at the end). f. 1* is a parchment flyleaf.
Script: Humanistic.
Binding: Post-1600. 'Harleian' binding of gold-tooled red leather; marbled endpapers; gilt edges.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Italy, Central (Florence).
Provenance:
John Gibson (fl. 1720-1726), dealer; sold to Harley on 17 June 1721 (see Diary 1966; Wright 1972).
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 ‘17 die Junij A.D. 1721’ (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. 2761.
The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by Cyril Ernest Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), I: 1715-1723, p. 113 n. 14.
Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), p. 162.
R. D. Williams, T. S. Pattie, Virgil: His Poetry through the Ages (London: The British Library, 1982), p. 134.
Albinia de la Mare, 'New Research on Humanistic Scribes in Florence', in Miniatura fiorentina del Rinascimento, 1440-1525: un primo censimento, ed. by Annarosa Garzelli, 2 vols, ([Florence]: Giunta regionale toscana, 1985), I, pp. 395-574 (p. 501).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Vergilius Maro, Publius, 70 BC-19 BC,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000430695667 - Places:
- Florence, Italy