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Harley MS 3296
- Record Id:
- 040-002049127
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002049127
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x0002a4
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3296
- Title:
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Palladius, De re rustica (imperfect)
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains a copy of De re rustica (On Agriculture), a treatise by the Roman writer Rutilius Taurus Aemilianus Palladius (fl. late 4th to early 5th century). The work gives detailed instructions for the typical activities on a Roman farm for each month of the year, starting with January. The manuscript is lacking the final section of the text concerning the month of December.
Contents:
ff. 1r-60v: Palladius, De re rustica, imperfect.
Decoration:
Large initials in red with blue pen-flourishing or in blue with red pen-flourishing sometimes highlighted with blue (ff. 1r, 2r, 15v, 21r, 33r, 42r, 49v, 51r, 53r). Coloured initials and paraph marks in red or blue.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002049127", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 3296: Palladius, De re rustica (imperfect)" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002049127 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3296 : Palladius, De re rustica (imperfect) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[3297]/040-002049127
- 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:
- 1450
- End Date:
- 1499
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Paper.
Dimensions: 295 x 205 mm (text space: 210 x 140 mm) in 2 columns.
Foliation: ff. 60 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end).
Script: Semi-humanistic.
Binding: Post-1600. Brown mottled calf-skin with gold fillets and blind tooling.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Italy.
Provenance:
Conyers Middleton (b. 1683, d. 1750), fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge from 1706, head librarian of the University Library at Cambridge (1721-50); sold on 25 February 1724/5 to Edward Harley (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 239); Diary (1966), p. 342 n. 3).
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 ‘25 die Februarij, A.D. 1724/5’ (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.
- 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. 3296.
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. 342 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), p. 239.
Mauro Ambrosoli, 'L'Opus agriculturae' di Palladio: volgarizzamenti e identificazione dell'ambiente naturale fra Tre e Cinquecento', Quaderni Storici, 18: 52 (1983), 227–54 (p. 252 n. 7).
Mauro Ambrosoli, The Wild and the Sown: Botany and Agriculture in Western Europe, 1350-1850 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), p. 18 n. 9.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Aemilianus Palladius, Rutilius Taurus, Late 4th century-early 5th century,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000455767399,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/54143112
Middleton, Conyers, fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge and head librarian of the University Library, Cambridge, 1683-1750 - Places:
- Italy