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Harley MS 2764
- Record Id:
- 040-002048595
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048595
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x000022
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2764
- Title:
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Tacitus, Annales
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1-168: Tacitus, Annales. The gold initial 'I'(n) on f. 1 is an addition, cut from another manuscript and pasted into the original white vine border. Originally, the sentence would have read: 'Nam Valerium Asiaticum, bis consulem, fuisse quondam adulterum ejus credidit…' (Tacitus, Annales, Liber XI).
Copious annotations by Ludovico Carbone of Ferrara (b. 1430, d. 1485).
Decoration:
Partial white vine border in colours and gold with an added initial cut from another manuscript. The added helm, arms and motto of the Sacrati family of Ferrara, early 16th century (f. 1r).
9 large white vine initials in colours and gold (ff. 9r, 22v, 35v, 50r, 66v, 73v, 117v, 138v, 162r). Incipits, explicits, and marginal notes in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002048595", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 2764: Tacitus, Annales" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002048595 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 2764 : Tacitus, Annales - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[2765]/040-002048595
- 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:
- 1452
- End Date:
- 1452
- Date Range:
- 1452
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 290 x 200 (195 x 110) mm.
Foliation: ff. 168 (+ 3 unfoliated paper and 2 parchment flyleaves at the beginning + at the end).
Script: Humanistic.
Binding: Post-1600. 'Harleian' binding of gold-tooled red leather; marbled endpapers; gilt edges; inscribed 'Tacitus' on the bottom edge.
Vertical catchwords. Ruled in hardpoint.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Ferrara, Italy.
Provenance:
The manuscript is inscribed in red ink with the date 1452 (fol. 125v), and was probably written in Ferrara, according to unpublished notes of A. C. de la Mare at the Bodleian Library, Oxford. De la Mare also notes that it contains 'copious annotations' by Ludovico Carbone of Ferrara (b. 1430, d. 1485).The Sacrati family of Ferrara: its helm, arms, and motto, early 16th century (f. 1r).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; sold to Harley on 18 January 1723/4 (see Wright, Fontes (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 ‘18 die Januarij, A.D. 1723/4’ (f. [iv] 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.Material: Parchment.
- Information About Copies:
- Select digital coverage: Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts, http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/.
- Publications:
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ACatalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), II (1808), no. 2764.
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. 234 n. 6.
Kenneth Wellesley, 'Was the Leiden manuscript of Tacitus copied from the Editio Princeps?' American Journal of Philology, 89 (1968), 302-320 [where the manuscript is referred to as 'H'].
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. 254, 291.
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. 475).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)