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Harley MS 3314
- Record Id:
- 040-002049145
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002049145
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x0002d6
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3314
- Title:
- Boccaccio, Filocolo, imperfect
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-255r: Boccaccio, Filocolo, imperfect, missing part of Bk 5.
f. 255v is blank.
Watermark of scissors (ff. [150b-d]), similar to C. M. Briquet, Les Filigranes: Dictionnaire historique des marques du papier dès leur apparition vers 1282 jusqu'en 1600, A Facsimile of the 1907 edition with supplementary material, ed. by Allan Stevenson, 4 vols (Amsterdam: Paper Publications Society, 1968), no. 3648 (dated 1454 to Rome).
Horizontal catchwords. Quires numbered on the recto of the 1st and verso of the last folio. Leaf signatures.
Decoration:
Large initial in gold and colours with foliate decoration including acanthus leaves extending into the margin (f. 1r). Numerous initials in red with purple pen-flourishing or in blue with red pen-flourishing. Spaces for initials left blank.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002049145", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 3314: Boccaccio, Filocolo, imperfect" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002049145 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3314 : Boccaccio, Filocolo, imperfect - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[3315]/040-002049145
- 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:
- 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: 340 x 235 mm (text space: 230 x 150 mm).
Foliation: ff. 255 (+ 4 unfoliated paper and 1 parchment flyleaves at the beginning + 4 unfoliated paper leaves after f. 150 + 4 unfoliated paper leaves at the end).
Script: Humanistic cursive.
Binding: Post-1600. Binding of brown mottled calf with gold fillets and blind tooling.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Italy, Central?
Provenance:
A monastic library founded or endowed by the Guicciardini of Florence (see Wright 1972).
Added annotations serving as rubrics or completing the text, late 15th century? (e. g. ff. 77v-78, 124v, 135v, 150r).
John Gibson (fl. 1720-1726), dealer: sold to Edward Harley on 13th February 1723/4 (Diary 1966; Wright 1972).
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. [v]r).
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), II (1808), no. 3314.
Harry Leigh Douglas Ward, Catalogue of Romances in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum, 3 vols (London: British Museum, 1883-1910), I (1883), pp. 725-27.
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. 216 n. 5.
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.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)