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Harley MS 3174
- Record Id:
- 040-002049005
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002049005
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x00020a
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3174
- Title:
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Pseudo-Bonaventure, Meditationes Vitae Christi
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1v-129r: Pseudo-Bonaventura, Meditationes Vitae Christi (Meditations on the Life of Christ).
Decoration:
Alternating initials in blue with red pen-flourishing or in red with violet pen-flourishing. Rubrics in red (now faded).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002049005", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 3174: Pseudo-Bonaventure, Meditationes Vitae Christi" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002049005 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3174 : Pseudo-Bonaventure, Meditationes Vitae Christi - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[3175]/040-002049005
- 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:
- 1454
- End Date:
- 1454
- Date Range:
- 1454
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 170 x 110 mm (text space: 110 x 70 mm).
Foliation: ff. 129 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves and 3 unfoliated ruled paper leaves at the beginning + 3 unfoliated ruled paper leaves at the the end and 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end); 3 unfoliated blank but ruled paper leaves between f. 6 and f. 7; 1 unfoliated paper pastedown (bibliographical notes) on f. [ii]recto.
Script: Semi-humanistic.
Binding: Post-1600. Brown leather over wooden boards.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Northern Italy (Bologna).
Provenance:
Written in 1454 by Jacobus de Parma in Bologna for Frater Gabriel, provincial vicar: as described in a colophon on f. 3v: 'Iste liber est ad usum fratris Iacobi de parma per Reverendum patrem gabrielem de Bononia eius provincie vicarium concessus quem ipse frater Iacobus Bononie scripsit Anno domini M.ccccliiij et est loci parme' (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 269).
Frater Gabriel of Bologna: gave the manuscript in c. 1454 to its scribe, Jacobus de Parma, as described on f. 3v (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1958), p. 158).
Jacobus de Parma: received the manuscript in c. 1454 from Gabriel of Bologna (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 269).
John Gibson (fl. 1720-1726), dealer; sold to Harley on 28 August 1724 (see Diary, ed. by Wright and Wright (1966), II, p. 312 n. 2; 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 ‘28 die mensis Augusti, A.D. 1724’ (f. [iii]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), III (1808), no. 3174.
The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by C. E. Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), II: 1723-1726, p. 312 n. 2.
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), no. 736.
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. 158, 162, 269.
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), pp. 462-84 (p. 467).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Pseudo-Bonaventura
- Places:
- Bologna, Italy, Europe, Western Europe