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Harley MS 3282

Record Id:

040-002049113

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002049113

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x000296

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 3282

Title:

Italian translations of Daniel of Raithu, Vita Iohannis Climaci; John, Abbot of Raithu, Epistula ad Iohannem Climacum; John Climacus, Epistula ad Iohannem Rhaitenum; John Climacus, Scala Paradisi; John Climacus, Liber ad pastorem

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-1v: Prologue, with the rubric: 'Prolagho come questo libro si traslato di greco in latino', beginning: 'Secondo la sententia dimessere Santo Jacopo ogni dato ottimo'.

ff. 1v-6r: Daniel of Raithu, Vita Iohannis Climaci; written in Italian ['La vita di Sancto Giovanni Abate del Monte Sinai decto Scolastico'].

ff. 6r-6v: John, Abbot of Raithu, Epistula ad Iohannem Climacum; translated into Italian.

ff. 7r-8r: John Climacus, Epistula ad Iohannem Rhaitenum; translated into Italian.

ff. 8r-9r: Prologues to John Climacus's Scala Paradisi; translated into Italian.

ff. 9r-9v: Table of chapters for John Climacus's Scala Paradisi; translated into Italian.

ff. 9v-198r: John Climacus, Scala Paradisi; translated into Italian.

ff. 198r-208v: John Climacus, Liber ad pastorem; translated into Italian ['Sermone di Santo Giovanni al Pastore']; and ending with the scribal colophon: 'Quod qui scripsit scribat: et senper [sic] cum domino vivat Amen'.

The manuscript contains a few additions:

ff. 209v-210v: Few faint and illegible inscriptions in Latin and one in Italian: 'nel temo della morte […]'.

Decoration:

Large (3- or 2-line) plain initials in red. Rubrics in red. Paraphs in red.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002049113

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 3282 : Italian translations of Daniel of Raithu, Vita Iohannis Climaci; John, Abbot of Raithu, Epistula ad Iohannem Climacum; John…

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[3283]/040-002049113

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:

1500

End Date:

1599

Date Range:

16th century

Era:

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User Conditions:

Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 260 x 165 mm (text space: 180 x 110 mm).

Foliation: ff. 210 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves and 1 unfoliated parchment flyleaf at the beginning + 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end).

Collation: Indicated by catchwords.

Script: Italian script.

Binding: Post-1600. Blind-stamped and gold-tooled brown speckled leather.

Custodial History:

Origin:

Italy.

Provenance:

A monastic library founded or endowed by the Guicciardini of Florence: see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), pp. 173-74).

John Gibson (fl. 1720-1726), dealer: sold to Edward Harley on 13 February 1723/4 (see Diary, ed. by Wright and Wright (1966), II, p. 217 n. 1; 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 ‘13 die Februarij, A.D. 1723/4’ (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:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), II (1808), p. 699.

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. 217 n. 1.

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. 162, 173-74.

Paul Oskar Kristeller, Iter Italicum: Accedunt Alia Itinera: A Finding List of Uncatalogued or Incompletely Catalogued Humanistic Manuscripts of the Renaissance in Italian and Other Libraries, 7 vols (London: Warburg Institute; Leiden: Brill, 1963-97), IV (1989), p. 168.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Daniel of Raithu, monk of Raithu, fl 7th century,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/34844576
John Climacus, Saint, monk of Mount Sinai, 6th century-7th century,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000456078077
John of Raithu, Abbot of Raithu, Early 7th century,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/66859241

Places:

Italy