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Harley MS 3328

Record Id:

040-002049159

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002049159

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x0002e4

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 3328

Title:

Ugolino Pisani, Philogenia

Scope & Content:

A humanist copy of the Renaissance comedy Philogenia by Ugolino Pisani.

Contents:

ff. 1r: Argumentum, begins 'Ephigeniam cum amaret Epiphebus perdite...' ends '...itaque despondetur Philogenia et gobius ea potitur uxore.'

ff. 1r-48v: Ugolino Pisani, Philogenia, begins 'Vere hoc possum dicere mi Nicomi in amore...' ends '...Fiat tur lu ru tu tu. Vallete vos et plaudite.' printed in Humanis Comedies, ed. and transl. by Gary R. Grund (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2005), pp. 172-282.

Decoration:

2 large white vine initials in colours and gold and an effaced coat of arms in the lower margin (f. 1r). 14 initials in gold on coloured grounds (ff. 4r, 5r, 12v, 15v, 20r, 22v, 25v, 27r, 32r, 34v, 36v, 39r, 39v, 47v). Rubrics and abbreviations of protagonists' names in red.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002049159

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 3328 : Ugolino Pisani, Philogenia

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[3329]/040-002049159

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:

1400

End Date:

1499

Date Range:

Last quarter of the 15th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 170x 115 mm (115 x 70 mm).

Foliation: fff. 1* + 48 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves after f. 1* and at the end).

Script: Humanistic.

Binding: Post-1600. White leather.

Custodial History:

Origin:

Central Italy (possibly Siena).

Provenance:

Unidentified arms of a gold shield with three red stars on a blue ground, encircled by a wreath (f. 1r).

John Stephens, possibly J. Stephens the bookseller at the Hand and Star in Fleet Street: sold the manuscript to Harley in 1723 (see Plomer, Dictionary (1932)).

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, ‘21 June 1723’ (f. 1* 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://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=4234&CollID=8&NStart=3328.

Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), no. 3328.

Henry Robert Plomer and others, A Dictionary of the Printers and Booksellers who were at work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1726 to 1775 (London: Bibliographical Society, 1932), p. 236.

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. 236 n. 6, p. 416 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), p. 315.

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. 169.

Luca Ruggio, Repertorio bibliografico del teatro umanistico (Florence: SISMEL. Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2011), p. 27.

Sondra Dall'Oco, 'Su alcuni codici della Philogenia di Ugolino Pisani', in Comico e tragico nel teatro umanistico, ed. by Stefano Pittaluga, Paolo Viti (Genoa: D.A.Fi.St., 2016), pp. 65-79 (pp. 70-71).

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)