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Harley MS 3238
- Record Id:
- 040-002049069
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002049069
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x00026a
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3238
- Title:
- Jacobus de Cessolis, Liber de moribus hominum et officiis nobilium super ludo scacchorum; tract on the expulsion of the Jesuits from Venice
- Scope & Content:
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This composite manuscript consists of two parts that were produced separately.
The first part contains a 15th-century Latin copy of the Liber de moribus hominum et officiis nobilium super ludo scacchorum [Book of the customs of men and the duties of nobles or the Book of Chess], an allegorical work that uses the game of chess for conveying moral teachings by the Italian Dominican friar Jacobus de Cessolis (b. c. 1250, d. c. 1322).
The second part contains a 17th-century tract in Italian concerning the expulsion of the Jesuit order from Venice.
Contents:
Part 1:
ff. 1r-33r: Jacobus de Cessolis (b. c. 1250, d. c. 1322), Liber de moribus hominum et officiis nobilium super ludo scacchorum.
Part 2:
ff. 34r-35r: Italian tract on the Jesuits in Venice, entitled: 'Raggioni 9 per le quali non si ha da prmetter alli Venetiani quello che recercano intorno all esclusione della compagna delle Giesiuiti delli loro stati'.
Decoration:
Part 1: Large (2- and 3-line) plain red initials, some with minor penwork decoration. Capitals highlighted in red. Paraphs in red. Rubrics in red. Marginal manicules in brown or red ink.
Part 2: No decoration.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002049069", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 3238: Jacobus de Cessolis, Liber de moribus hominum et officiis nobilium super ludo scacchorum; tract on the expulsion of the Jesuits from…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002049069 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3238 : Jacobus de Cessolis, Liber de moribus hominum et officiis nobilium super ludo scacchorum; tract on the expulsion of the Jesuits… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[3239]/040-002049069
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Italian
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1400
- End Date:
- 1649
- Date Range:
- 15th century-1st half of the 17th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 285 x 205 mm (text space: 180 x 110 mm [Part 1]; 260 x 180 mm [Part 2]).
Foliation: ff. 35 (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning + 2 at the end).
Collation: Indicated by catchwords [Part 1].
Script: Gothic [Part 1]; Italian cursive [Part 2].
Binding: British Museum in-house: blind-stamped and gold-tooled brown leather.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Italy.
Provenance:
Part 1:
? Johann Georg Graevius (b. 1632, d. 1703), German classical scholar and critic: may have been one of the manuscripts that he sold to Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine, in 1703 (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), pp. 168-69).
Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (b. 1658, d. 1716), owner of a library in Düsseldorf: bought the entire Graevius library in 1703 (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 168).
Giovanni Giacomo Zamboni (d. 1753), resident in London for the Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (c. 1723-1753), friend of Michael Mattaire, the classical scholar and historian of printing: bought the Wilhelm library sometime before 1724 through Johann Büchels (b. 1659, d. 1738), and sold this manuscript via Mattaire to Edward Harley in 1724 (see Diary, ed. by Wright and Wright (1966), II, p. 303 n. 3; Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 367).
Both parts:
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 ‘6 die Augusti, A. D. 1724’ (f. 1r) and '13 Augusti, 1724' (f. 34r).
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.
A. C. Clark, 'The Library of J. G. Graevius', The Classical Review, 5 (1891), 365-72 (p. 369 [where the manuscript has been wrongly identified with Harley MS 1275).
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. 303 n. 3.
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. 168-69, 367.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Jacobus de Cessolis, c 1250-c 1322,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000084897310 - Places:
- Italy