Hard-coded id of currently selected item: . JSON version of its record is available from Blacklight on e.g. ??
Metadata associated with selected item should appear here...
Harley MS 2781
- Record Id:
- 040-002048612
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048612
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x000033
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2781
- Title:
-
Livy, De secundo bello Punico
- Scope & Content:
-
Contents:
ff. 1r-159r: Titus Livius Patavinus (b. 59 BC, d. AD 17), also known as Livy, De secundo bello Punico (On the second Punic War).
Decoration:
Small initials in blue and red at the beginning of the manuscript.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002048612", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 2781: Livy, De secundo bello Punico" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002048612 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 2781 : Livy, De secundo bello Punico - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[2782]/040-002048612
- 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:
- 1456
- End Date:
- 1466
- Date Range:
- c 1461
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
Please request the physical items you need using the online collection item request form.
Digitised items can be viewed online by clicking the thumbnail image or digitised content link.
Readers who have registered or renewed their pass since 21 March 2024 can request physical items prior to visiting the Library by completing
this request form.
Please enter the Reference (shelfmark) above on the request form.If your Reader Pass was issued before this date, you will need to visit the Library in London or Yorkshire to renew it before you can request items online. All manuscripts and archives must be consulted at the Library in London.
This catalogue record may describe a collection of items which cannot all be requested together. Please use the hierarchy viewer to navigate to individual items. Some items may be in use or restricted for other reasons. If you would like to check the availability, contact our Reference Services team, quoting the Reference (shelfmark) above.
- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
-
Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 270 x 200 mm.
Foliation: ff. 159 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 5 unfoliated parchment leaves and 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end); the original red morocco Harliean binding has been pasted on the insides of the upper and lower cover; the original spine-label has been pasted on f. [i]recto.
Script: Gothic.
Binding. Post-1600. British Museum in-house; rebound on 24 May 1966.
- Custodial History:
-
Origin:
Italy.
Provenance:
An Italian scribe in 1466: added a colophon on f. 159r: ‘Finitus Anno domini .1461. die secondo Junij . feliciter . deo laus.’. The manuscript is written in different hands.
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.
- Publications:
-
A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), II (1808), p. 711.
Andrew G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c. 700-1600 in The Department of Manuscripts: The British Library, 2 vols (London: British Library, 1979), I: The Text, p. 128 (no. 701); II, The Plates, pls 617a-c.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Livius Patavinus, Titus, 59 BC-17,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000122834055,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/99942145 - Places:
- Italy
- Related Material:
-
A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), II (1808), p. 711.