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Harley MS 2778
- Record Id:
- 040-002048609
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048609
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x000030
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2778
- Title:
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Sextus Propertius, Elegiae; Caius Valerius Catullus, Carmina
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains the works of two Roman poets: the Elegiae (Elegies) of Sextus Propertius (died after 15 BC) and the Carmina (Poems) of Gaius Valerius Catullus (b. c. 84 BC, d. c. 54 BC).
Contents:
ff. 1r-71v: Sextus Propertius, Elegiae.
ff. 72r-112v: Catullus, Carmina.
Decoration:
1 large white vine initial in gold and colours with decoration extending into the margin, a wreath enclosing the coat of arms of the Strozzi family, surrounded by pen-flourishing with flowers and besants (f. 1r). 4 large white vine initials in gold and colours (ff. 13v, 37v, 55r, 72r). Coloured initials in alternating red and blue. A flower drawn in red ink at the end of the text (f. 112v).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002048609", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 2778: Sextus Propertius, Elegiae; Caius Valerius Catullus, Carmina" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002048609 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 2778 : Sextus Propertius, Elegiae; Caius Valerius Catullus, Carmina - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[2779]/040-002048609
- 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:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 275 x 160 mm (175 x 90 mm).
Foliation: ff. 1* + 112 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves and + 1 parchment flyleaf at the beginning and + 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end). f* is a parchment flyleaf.
Script: Humanistic.
Binding: Post-1600. 'Harleian' binding of gold-tooled red leather; marbled endpapers. Fragment of an earlier spine pasted on the inside of the upper cover. Gilt edges; rebacked.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Italy, N (Ferrara).
Provenance:
A member of the Strozzi family: their arms (or on a fess gules, 3 crescents argent, f. 1r).
Alexander Branchaleonus, 15th century: inscribed 'Ego Alexander Branchaleonus' (f. 1*r).
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. 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. 2778.
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. 82.
Catullus: A Critical Edition, ed. by D. F. S. Thomson (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1978), no. 50 (pp. 50-51).
James L. Butrica, The Manuscript Tradition of Propertius (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1984), no. 59.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Catullus, Gaius Valerius, c 84-54 BC
Propertius, Sextus, 45 BC-15 BC - Places:
- Ferrara, Italy