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Harley MS 3242
- Record Id:
- 040-002049073
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002049073
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x00026e
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3242
- Title:
- Cassiodorus, Historia tripartita; Paul the Deacon, Historia romana
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-116v: Cassiodorus, Historia tripartita. Each book begins with a capitula list.
ff. 117r-247v: Paul the Deacon [but here attributed to Eutropius), Historia romana.
Decoration:
Large initials in red and green with red pen-flourishing and often foliate decoration (ff. 1r, 18r, 27r, 32v, 42v, 55v, 117r, 121r, 127r, 131r, 138r, 143, 149v, 156v, 158v, 166r, 173r, etc.). Large initials in red with reserved designs (ff. 1v, 67r, 80v, 87r, 101r, 108v, 112v, etc.). Smaller coloured initials in red. Capitals marked in red ink.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002049073", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 3242: Cassiodorus, Historia tripartita; Paul the Deacon, Historia romana" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002049073 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3242 : Cassiodorus, Historia tripartita; Paul the Deacon, Historia romana - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[3243]/040-002049073
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1519
- End Date:
- 1520
- Date Range:
- 1519-1520
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 270 x 205 mm (195 x 120 mm, in 2 columns).
Foliation: ff. 247 (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning + 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the end); 2 unfoliated ruled leaves after f. 116.
Script: Gothic; written by 'Michael Treveris' (his name in colophons on ff. 116v and 247v).
Binding: Post-1600. Binding of brown mottled calf with gold fillets and blind tooling.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Western Germany (? Trier).
Provenance:
Written by 'Michael Treveris', probably a member of a Trier monastery, in 1519 and 1520 [in 1520, the same scribe wrote Trier, Stadtbibliothek, MS 1324 ]: according to colophons on f. 116v: 'Explicit feliciter historia ecclesiastica sive tripertita per me fr[atr]em michaele[m] treveris Anno d[omi]ni millesimo qu[i]ngentesimo nonodecimo ip[s]a sancti andree apostoli'; and f. 247v: 'Explicit [...] per me fratre[m] michaelem treveris Anno d[omi]ni milessimo qui[n]gentesi[m]o vicesimo ipsa die co[n]versionis sancti pauli apostoli'.
'Johannes', 16th century: inscribed with his name on f. [116a]verso.
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.
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. 3242).
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. 740.
L. B. Mortensen, 'The Diffusion of Roman Histories in the Middle Ages. A List Of Orosius, Eutropius, Paulus Diaconus and Landolfus Sagax Manuscripts,' Filologia Mediolatina, 6-7, (2000), 101-200 (p. 179).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Cassiodorus, Flavius Magnus Aurelius Senator, c 485-585,
see also http://isni.org/isni/000000011323199X,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/95230707
Paul the Deacon, Benedictine monk, scribe and historian, c 720-799,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000454758685,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/40174477 - Places:
- Trier, Germany
Western Germany