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Harley MS 3003
- Record Id:
- 040-002048834
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048834
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x000125
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3003
- Title:
- Isidore of Seville, De differentiis rerum, book 2
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-82r: Isidore of Seville, De differentiis rerum, book 2; with an index of contents (ff. 1r-2v), and contemporary glosses and notabilia in a cursive hand.
The manuscript contains an addition:
f. [i]verso: An inscription: 'Iste isidorus fuit ipse Scadij imperatoris et [...] marometh'; added in the 15th century.
Decoration:
White vine initial in colours and gold (f. 3r). Gold initials on coloured grounds with contrasting tracery (ff. 3r, 30v). Blue initials throughout. Rubrics in red or light purple.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002048834", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 3003: Isidore of Seville, De differentiis rerum, book 2" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002048834 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3003 : Isidore of Seville, De differentiis rerum, book 2 - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[3004]/040-002048834
- 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:
- 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: 230 x 165 mm (text space: 140 x 85 mm).
Foliation: ff. 82 (+ 2 unfoliated early modern paper flyleaves and 2 original parchment flyleaves [one is a former pastedown] at the beginning + 1 unfoliated original parchment fyleaf and 1 early modern paper flyleaf at the end).
Collation: i 4 (2 unfoliated parchment leaves and ff. 1-2), ii-ix 10 (ff. 3-82); indicated by horizontal catchwords.
Script: Humanistic.
Binding: Post-1600. 'Harleian' binding of blind- and gilt-tooled mottled brown calf, 1st quarter of the 18th century; marbled endpapers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Northern Italy.
Provenance:
Francesco Zeno, 15th century: mentioned in a contemporary note on f. 1r, partly erased (not in Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)).
John Gibson (fl. 1720-1726), dealer: sold to Edward Harley on 13 February 1723/4 (Diary, ed. by Wright and Wright (1966), II, p. 273 and n. 7; Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 162).
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 Februarij, A.D. 1723/4’ (f. [ii]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.
- 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), p. 724.
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. 273 and n. 7.
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, 420.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Isidore of Seville, Saint, Bishop of Seville, c 560-636,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000122756296,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/803890 - Places:
- Northern Italy