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Harley MS 3290
- Record Id:
- 040-002049121
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002049121
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x00029e
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3290
- Title:
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Ptolemy, Geographia; Pierre d'Ailly, Imago mundi
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains copies of two cosmographical works: Geographia (Geography), written by the Greek mathematician and astronomer Claudius Ptolemy (b. c. 100, d. c. 170), and Imago mundi (Image of the World), by the French theologian and astrologer Pierre d'Ailly (b. 1351, d. 1420).
Contents:
ff. 2r-163v: Ptolemy, Geographia;
ff. 164v-189v: Pierre d'Ailly, Imago mundi.
[ff. 1r, 164r and 178v are blank].
Decoration:
2 Ptolemaic diagrams in brown ink (ff. 2r, 2v). Very large puzzle initials in red and blue with purple and brown penwork decoration. Large puzzle initials in red and blue. Large initials in blue with purple penwork decoration or in red with brown penwork decoration. Smaller initials in red with brown pen-flourishing or in blue with purple pen-flourishing. Plain initials in red or blue. Paraphs in red or blue. Rubrics in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002049121", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 3290: Ptolemy, Geographia; Pierre d'Ailly, Imago mundi" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002049121 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3290 : Ptolemy, Geographia; Pierre d'Ailly, Imago mundi - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[3291]/040-002049121
- 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:
- 1448
- End Date:
- 1448
- Date Range:
- 1448
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Paper and Parchment (ff. 1-2, 13, 165 and 176 only are parchment).
Dimensions: 295 x 210 mm (text space: 185 x 120 mm).
Foliation: ff. 189 (+ 5 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 4 at the end).
Script: Gothic.
Binding: Post-1600. Brown leather with gold tooling; marbled endpapers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Western Germany.
Provenance:
Written in 1448: colophon, 'Laus deo. 1448 aldegundis virginis' (f. 163v); 'Explicit secundus tractatus compendii cosmographie... 1448. Gregorii pape' (f. 189v).
The Augustinian convent of Cruciferi, Helenenberg, near Trier: inscribed in the 15th century, 'Liber fratrum sancte crucis montis sancte helene prope Welschbilch treverensis diocesis' (f. 1v).
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.
- Information About Copies:
- Select digital coverage available for this manuscript; see the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts, https://bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/.
- 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), no. 3290.
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. 351.
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. 746.
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:
- Ptolemaeus (Ptolemy), Claudius, astronomer, c 90-c 168
d'Ailly, Pierre, Cardinal, Bishop of Cambray, 1351-1420 - Places:
- Western Germany