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Harley MS 2770
- Record Id:
- 040-002048601
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048601
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x000028
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2770
- Title:
- Virgil, Aeneid
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
f. 1r: A near-contemporary four-line annotation at the top of the page (which was originally a medieval flyleaf), most likely added in the early 13th-century, beginning: ‘Initi Virgilius poetari op[er]is'.
ff. 1v-54r: Publius Virgilius Maro (Virgil), Aeneid, with verse preface (‘Ille ego’), with marginal and interlinear annotations throughout, book VI being especially heavily annotated.
[f. 54v is blank].
Decoration:
1 ink drawing, added in the 13th or 14th century, of a knight with spear and shield (f. 1r).
1 large initial outlined in red ink, with foliate and zoomorphic motifs (f. 2r). Small initials in red with simple foliate decoration (e.g. f. 6r). Small initials in brown ink with simple penwork decoration (e.g. f. 13v). First letter of the line marked in red (ff. 2r-5v).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002048601", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 2770: Virgil, Aeneid" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002048601 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 2770 : Virgil, Aeneid - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[2771]/040-002048601
- 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:
- 1199
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 280 x 175 mm (written area 230 x 125 mm, in two columns of 48 lines).
Foliation: ff. 54 (+ 3 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the end).
f. 1 is a medieval parchment flyleaf.
Script: Protogothic.
Binding: Post-1600. Harley binding of gilt-tooled red leather with marbled endpapers and pastedowns.
Collation: Two quire marks, ‘I’ (f. 9v), and ‘II’ (f. 18r); quires mainly in quaternions.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Germany or France.
Provenance:
Added annotation and ink drawing, 13th or 14th century. (f. 1r).
Added early modern annotation, probably 16th century: ‘Flor. P. Pothenii' (f. 1r).
Johann Georg Graevius (b. 1632, d. 1703), German classical scholar and critic: his catalogue no. 11, sold to Wilhelm together with the rest of his library in 1703 (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 169): shelfmark 'G 18’ in his catalogue of 1703.
Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (b. 1658, d. 1716), owner of a library in Düsseldorf: bought the entire Graevius library in 1703 (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 168).
Giovanni Giacomo Zamboni (d. 1753), resident in London for the Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (c. 1723-1753), friend of Michael Mattaire, the classical scholar and historian of printing: bought the Wilhelm library at some point before 1724 through Johann Büchels (b. 1659, d. 1738) (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 367).
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, '6 die mensis Augusti, A.D. 1724' (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:
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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. 2770.
A Selection of Latin Stories from manuscripts of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries; a contribution to the history of fiction during the Middle Ages, ed. by Thomas Wright (London: Percy Society, 1842), VIII, p. 114 (the text on f. 42).
A. C. Clark, 'The Library of J. G. Graevius', The Classical Review, 5 (1891), 365-372 (p. 369).
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. 303 n. 2.
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. 169, 367.
R. D. Williams, T. S. Pattie, Virgil: His Poetry through the Ages (London: The British Library, 1982), p. 134.
B. Munk Olsen, L’Étude des auteurs classiques latins aux XIe et XIIe siècles, 3 vols (Paris: Centre national de la recherche scientifique, 1982-1989), II (1985), p. 732, no. C. 101.
Guiseppe Ramires, 'Review of P. Vergili Maronis Opera by MARIUS GEYMONAT', Vergilius, 55 (2009), 148-55 (p. 150, n. 12).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Graevius, Johann Georg, German classical scholar, 1632-1703
Vergilius Maro, Publius, 70 BC-19 BC,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000430695667
Wilhelm, Johann, Elector Palatine, 1658-1716
Zamboni, Giovanni Giacomo, Chargé d'Affaires of the Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt in England, d. 1753 - Places:
- France
Germany - Related Material:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, II (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808), p. 711:
‘P. Virgilii Mar. Aeneidos libri 12. XII.’