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Harley MS 3289

Record Id:

040-002049120

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002049120

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x00029d

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 3289

Title:

Italian translations of Sallust's De bello Jugurtho and Boethius' De consolatione philosophiae

Scope & Content:

This manuscript contains Italian translations of Sallust's De bello Jugurtho (On the Jugurthine War) and Boethius' De consolatione philosophiae (On the Consolation of Philosophy), the latter featuring a preface by the translator.

Contents:

ff. 1r-45v: Sallust, De bello Jugurtho, in Italian;

ff. 46v-99v: Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae, in Italian.

ff. 1*r and 46r are blank.

Decoration:

8 large initials in colours and gold, including unusual combinations of pink and yellow (ff. 1r, 2r (x2), 46v, 49r, 65v, 79r, 90v). Frame composed of two interlocking squares, designed for a coat of arms, in pink, green, blue and gold (f. 1r). Alternating red initials with blue pen-flourishing or blue initials with red pen-flourishing. Diagram in red and blue with the names of the protagonists in the Jugurthine War (f. 40v). Rubrics in red. Paraphs in blue.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002049120

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 3289 : Italian translations of Sallust's De bello Jugurtho and Boethius' De consolatione philosophiae

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[3290]/040-002049120

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Italian

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1400

End Date:

1449

Date Range:

1st half of the 15th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment.

Dimensions: 300 x 220 mm (written space: 190 x 135 mm), in two columns.

Foliation: ff. 1* + 99 (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning + 1 unfoliated parchment leaf after f. 1* + 1 unfoliated, ruled parchment leaf at the end).

f. 1* is a former pastedown.

Horizontal catchwords.

Script: Semi-humanistic.

Binding: Post-1600. Mottled brown leather with gold tooling.

Custodial History:

Origin: Central or possibly Northern Italy.

Provenance:

An added Italian inscription in a 16th- or 17th-century hand (f.. 1*v).

Andrew Hay (d. 1754), dealer: sold to Harley on 31 December 1724.

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 '31 Decembris 1724' (f. [iii] recto). 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:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), no. 3289.

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. 325 n. 4.

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. 183.

Cyril Ernest Wright, 'Manuscripts of Italian Provenance in the Harleian Collection in the British Museum: Their Sources, Associations and Channels of Acquisition', in Cultural Aspects of the Italian Renaissance. Essays in Honour of Paul Oskar Kristeller, ed. by C. H. Clough (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1976), pp. 462-84 (p. 470).

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, 1963-1997), IV (1989), p. 168.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Boethius, Anicius Manlius Torquatus Severinus, c 480-524/525,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000122834442,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/100218964
Hay, Andrew, dealer in antiquities, d. 1754
Sallustius Crispus, Caius, 86BC-c 35BC

Places:

Central Italy
Northern Italy