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Harley MS 3379
- Record Id:
- 040-002049210
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002049210
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x000337
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3379
- Title:
-
Aristotle, Ethica
- Scope & Content:
-
Contents:
Aristotle, Ethica (Nicomachean Ethics) in the Latin translation by Leonardo Bruni of Arezzo (Leonardo Aretino), with a preface (ff. 1r-4v), incipit (preface): '[A]ristotelis ethicorum facere latinos', incipit (text): 'Omnis ars omnisque doctrina.'
Decoration:
Space left for initials at the beginning of the preface and each book.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002049210", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 3379: Aristotle, Ethica" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002049210 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3379 : Aristotle, Ethica - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[3380]/040-002049210
- 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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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 215 x 150 mm (text space: 140 x 95 mm).
Foliation: ff. 118 (+ 6 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves: 3 at the beginning and 3 at the end).
Script: Humanistic cursive.
Binding: Post-1600. Browned leather binding with tooled decoration and marble end-papers.
- Custodial History:
-
Origin:
Italy.
Provenance:
Written by Bellus Alchainus in 1448, his colophon: 'Translatio nova Leonardi Aretini sup[er] lib. ethi[orum] Aristotel[is] transc[ri]pta p[er] me bellu[m] Alchainu[m] di xv novemr[is] 1448' (f. 118v).
John Gibson (fl. 1720-1726), dealer; sold to Edward Harley on 13 February 1723/4; according to Humfrey Wanley's record all manuscripts acquired from Gibson on that day came from a monastic library founded or endowed by the Florentine family Guicciardini (see Diary 1966).
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 ‘22 die mensis Junii, A.D. 1726’ (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.
- Administrative Context:
- Italy.
- Publications:
-
A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-1812), III (1808), no. 3370.
The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by C. E. Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), II: 1723-1726, pp. 213, 216 n. 25.
C. E. Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 162, 174.
A. G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c.700-1600 in the Department of Manuscripts, The British Library (London, 1979), I, no. 749.
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.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Aristotle, philosopher, 384 BC-322 BC
Bentinck, Margaret Cavendish, duchess of Portland, née Harley, collector of art and natural history specimens and patron of arts and sciences, 11 Feb 1715-17 Jul 1785,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000115857160,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/2356861
Bruni, Leonardo, Italian humanist, 1370-1444,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121442279
Gibson, John, book-dealer, fl 1720-1726
Harley, Edward, second earl of Oxford and Mortimer, book collector and patron of the arts, 2 Jun 1689-16 Jun 1741,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000108078249,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/160524259
Harley, Henrietta Cavendish, Countess of Oxford and Mortimer, née Holles, patron of architecture, 4 Feb 1694-9 Dec 1755,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000030125833,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/6045563
Harley, Robert, first Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, 5 Dec 1661-21 May 1724,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000083423906