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Harley MS 3398
- Record Id:
- 040-002049229
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002049229
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x00034a
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3398
- Title:
- Plutarch, Apophthegmata ad Traianum, and Apophthegmata Laconica
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 2r-45r: Plutarch, Apophthegmata ad Traianum; translated from Greek into Latin by Francesco Filelfo in 1437, with his prefatory letter to Filippo Maria Visconti, Duke of Milan (ff. 2r-3v).
ff. 46r-84v: Plutarch, Apophthegmata Laconica; translated from Greek into Latin by Francesco Filelfo in 1454, with his prefatory letter to Pope Nicholas V.
The manuscript contains a later addition:
f. 1r: Title inscriptions: 'Apofteguata - Plutarchi' and 'Plutarchi Apoftegmata' [2x]; added in the (?) 17th century.
Decoration:
Large (2-line) calligraphic initials in black ink. Rubrics in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002049229", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 3398: Plutarch, Apophthegmata ad Traianum, and Apophthegmata Laconica" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002049229 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3398 : Plutarch, Apophthegmata ad Traianum, and Apophthegmata Laconica - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[3399]/040-002049229
- 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:
- 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials; Paper; parchment (ff. 1-2, [88] only).
Dimensions: 230 x 165 mm (text space: 165 x 100 mm).
Foliation: ff. 84 (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning + 1 unfoliated parchment flyleaf and 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the end); 2 unfoliated blank paper leaves after f. 45; 3 unfoliated paper leaves after f. 84.
Collation: Indicated by horizontal catchwords; each quire has been mounted separately onto a paper guard.
Script: Humanistic cursive.
Binding: British Museum in-house; brown half leather with the Harleian arms gold stamped on the outside covers; rebound on 21 April 1964.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Italy.
Provenance:
John Gibson (fl. 1720-1726), dealer; sold to Edward Harley on 13 February 1723/4 (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 162).
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 ‘12 Febr., 1719/20’ (f. 2r).
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), p. 23.
The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by Cyril Ernest Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), I: 1715-1723, p. 195, 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. 162.
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. 170.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Filelfo, Francisco, Italian Renaissance humanist, 1398-1481,
see also http://isni.org/isni/000000012275918X
Mestrius Plutarchus, Lucius, c 46-after 120,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000449227580 - Places:
- Italy