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Harley MS 2768
- Record Id:
- 040-002048599
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048599
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x000026
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165166634.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2768
- Title:
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Aulus Gellius, Noctes atticae
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains a 15th-century copy of Aulus Gellius' Noctes atticae (Attic Nights), a commonplace book comprising notes on grammar, history, antiquarianism and philosophy, drawn from a variety of sources.
Contents:
ff. 1r-297v: Aulus Gellius, Noctes atticae (Attic Nights).
[ff. 23*r-24r are blank].
Annotations throughout the manuscript, including some in Greek, were added in the 15th century.
Decoration:
White vine initials in colours and gold combined with a three-sided white vine border with a wreath enclosing the arms of Lodovico Petroni of Siena (b. 1409, d. 1478) at the beginning of the text (f. 1r). Large white vine initials at the beginning of all subsequent books, except Book 3 (ff. 22r, 60v, 73v, 87r, 98r, 115r, 129r, 147v, 160r, 175v, 199r, 213v, 229v, 243v, 263v, 274v, 285v). Initials in gold on a blue, green and/or dark red panel (blue, green and pink on f. 1v). Rubrics in purple or pink.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002048599", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 2768: Aulus Gellius, Noctes atticae" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002048599 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 2768 : Aulus Gellius, Noctes atticae - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[2769]/040-002048599
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100165166634.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
Latin - Scripts:
- Greek
Latin - Start Date:
- 1450
- End Date:
- 1474
- Date Range:
- 3rd quarter of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 285 x 200 mm (text space: 190 x 105 mm).
Foliation: ff. 297 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves and 1 unfoliated parchment flyleaf at the beginning + 1 unfoliated ruled leaf (with leaf signature) after f. 23) + 2 unfoliated parchment flyleaves and 3 paper flyleaves at the end).
Script: Humanistic.
Binding: Post-1600. 'Harleian' binding of gold-tooled red leather by Thomas Elliot (signed 'ELLT' on the spine); marbled endpapers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Italy, Central (Rome).
Provenance:
Lodovico Petroni of Siena (b. 1409, d. 1478) humanist, senator of Rome: his arms (f. 1r).
John Gibson (fl. 1720-1726), dealer: sold to Edward Harley on 13 September 1722 (Diary (1966), I, p. 143; Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), pp. 274-75).
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 mensis Septembris A.D. 1722’ (f. 1). 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.
- 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. 2768.
Ellic Howe, A List of London Bookbinders, 1648-1815 (London: The Bibliographical Society, 1950), pp. 33-34.
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. 143 n. 11.
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. 162, 274-75.
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), 462-84 (pp. 465-66).
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, 395-574 (p. 439 n. 141).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)