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Harley MS 3229
- Record Id:
- 040-002049060
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002049060
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x000251
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3229
- Title:
- Bonaventure, Legend and Life of Francis of Assisi
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 2r-24v: Alphabetical subject index, entitled: 'Tabula alphabetica in legenda in beati Francisci'.
ff. 26r-115r: Bonaventure, Legend and Life of Francis of Assisi (with Miracles), entitled: 'Legenda et Vita Beati Patris nostri Francisci'.
Decoration:
Prologue miniature surrounded by full border in colours and gold, ornamented with antique motifs, roundels of saints, and a coat of arms (f. 26r). 3 historiated initials at the beginning of chapters: Francis before his conversion (f. 29r), receiving the stigmata (f. 81r), and appearing to the pope (f. 91r). 13 large decorated initials in colours and gold with floral extensions at the beginning of the other chapters (ff. 31v, 35v, 39v, 44v, 49v, 54r, 59r, 64r, 68v, 72r, 76v, 85v, 88r). Numerous smaller initials in colours and gold. Numerous pen-flourished initials in red and blue.
Scholars concur that this manuscript was illuminated by Stefano Lunetti who was active in Florence from 1483 to 1534 (see, for example, D'Ancona, La miniatura fiorentina (1914), nos 1368, 1672; Miniatura fiorentina del Rinascimento, 1440-1525, ed. by Garzelli (1985), Pl. 1045; I corali del monastero di Santa Maria degli Angeli, ed. by D'Ancona (1995), pp. 181, 184; Galizzi, 'Lunetti, Stefano' (2004), p. 406).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002049060", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 3229: Bonaventure, Legend and Life of Francis of Assisi" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002049060 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3229 : Bonaventure, Legend and Life of Francis of Assisi - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[3230]/040-002049060
- 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:
- 1504
- End Date:
- 1504
- Date Range:
- 1504
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 280 x 205 mm (text space: 180 x 130 mm, in 2 columns).
Foliation: ff. 116 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 2 at the end); 1 unfoliated paper pastedown on f. 1r (bibliographical notes).
Collation: Indicated by vertical catchwords.
Script: Humanistic, written by the scribe Alessandro da Bologna.
Binding: British Library in-house; red half leather binding with the Harleian arms gold stamped on the outside covers; rebound in 1981.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Italy, Central (Florence).
Provenance:
Written by Alessandro da Bologna, Augustinian friar and scribe, at the hospital of St Paul in Florence in 1504: his colophon on f. 115r: 'Expleta per me Fratrem Alexandrum Bononiensem ordinis sancti. Augustini in hospitale sancti pauli di Florentia, Anno domini M.ccccc iiij iii nonas Augusti' (see Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts (1979), no. 739).
? Hospital of San Paolo, Florence, owned in 1504: the manuscript was written by at the hospital by Alessandro da Bologna in 1504 (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 153).
Francesco Zeno, OFM, Vicar General: his ownership inscription on f. 116v: 'Concessus est hic liber ad usam fratris Andree senioris de florentia per me fratrem Franciscum Zenum V[icarium] G[eneralem] Imitum manu propria [...]' (not in Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)).
Giovanni Francesco di Malatesta [Tramontano, podestà of Lucca?], owned in the early 16th century: his arms on f. 26r (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1971), p. 232).
Conyers Middleton (b. 1683, d. 1750), Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge from 1706, head librarian of the University Library at Cambridge (1721-50); sold to Harley on 25th February 1724/5 (see Diary, ed. by Wright and Wright (1966), II, p. 342 n. 2; Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 239).
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 ‘25 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.
- 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), p. 11 (no. 3229).
Paolo d'Ancona, La miniatura fiorentina: Secoli XI-XVI, 2 vols (Florence: Olschki, 1914), nos. 1368, 1672.
Reproductions from Illuminated Manuscripts, Series 3, 3rd edn (London: British Museum, 1925), pl. 48.
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. 342 n. 2.
J. J. G. Alexander and A. C. de la Mare, The Italian Manuscripts in the Library of Major J. R. Abbey (London: Faber and Faber, 1969), p. 160.
Mirella Levi D'Ancona, The Wildenstein Collection of Iluminations: The Lombard School (Florence: Olschki, 1970), pp. 104-05.
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. 153, 232, 239.
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. 739.
Miniatura fiorentina del Rinascimento, 1440-1525: un primo censimento, 2 vols, ed. by Annarosa Garzelli (Florence: Giunta regionale toscana, 1985), II, pl. 1045.
I corali del monastero di Santa Maria degli Angeli, ed. by Mirella Levi D'Ancona and others (Florence: Centro di, 1995), pp. 181, 184.
Diego Galizzi, 'Lunetti, Stefano', in Dizionario biografico dei miniatori italiani: Secoli IX-XVI, ed. by Milvia Bollati (Milan: Sylvestre Bonnard, 2004), pp. 405-6 (p. 406).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Bonaventure, Saint, born Giovanni di Fidanza; scholastic theologian, 1221-1274,
see also http://isni.org/isni/000000045724994X - Places:
- Florence, Italy