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Harley MS 3228
- Record Id:
- 040-002049059
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002049059
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x000250
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3228
- Title:
- Lactantius, Divinae institutiones
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains a copy of the Divinae institutiones (The Divine Institutes), a theological work by the Christian Roman philosopher Lucius Caecilius Firmianus Lactantius (b. c. 250, d. c. 350).
Contents:
ff. 1r-v: Table of contents.
ff. 2r-223v: Lactantius, Divinae institutiones.
Decoration:
Full floral border in colours, gold, and silver, with a large gold initial and, in the lower margin, a coat of arms flanked by putti (f. 2r). 6 large gold initials on pink and blue grounds; the first damaged (ff. 33v, 62r, 96v, 129v, 159r, 194r). Smaller plain initials in blue or red. Rubrics in red. Capitals marked in red. Some portions of text and marginal annotations in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002049059", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 3228: Lactantius, Divinae institutiones" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002049059 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3228 : Lactantius, Divinae institutiones - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[3229]/040-002049059
- 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:
- 1430
- End Date:
- 1470
- Date Range:
- Middle of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Paper.
Dimensions: 290 x 185 mm (text space: 190 x 95 mm).
Foliation: ff. 223 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 8 at the end).
Script: Humanistic cursive.
Binding: Post-1600. Mottled brown leather with gold tooling.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Italy.
Provenance:
An unidentified Italian owner: arms of a green tree with red fruit on a blue ground bisected by a gold bar (f. 2r).
Conyers Middleton (b. 1683, d. 1750), fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge from 1706, head librarian of the University Library at Cambridge (1721-50); sold on 20 February 1724/25. (Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 239; Diary (1966), p. 335 n. 7).
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 ‘20 die Februarij, A.D. 1724/5’ (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:
- 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), III (1808), no. 3228.
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. 335 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), p. 239.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Lactantius, Lucius Caecilius Firmianus, rhetorician and Christian apologist, c 260-c 340
Middleton, Conyers, fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge and head librarian of the University Library, Cambridge, 1683-1750 - Places:
- Italy