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Harley MS 3410
- Record Id:
- 040-002049241
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002049241
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x000356
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3410
- Title:
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Petrarch, Rime
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 3-145v: Petrarch, Rime.
f. 1 is a paper flyleaf; f. 2 is a parchment leaf.
Some lines of the sonnets have been inked out (ff. 55r, 69r, and 69v).
Decoration:
Full white vine border in colours and gold with a portrait of Petrarch in a medallion, other medallions with geometrical patterns, a large illuminated initial, a small 'champ' initial, and a wreath enclosing an unidentified coat of arms (f. 9r). 'Champ' initials with foliate extensions in gold and blue pen-flourishing at the beginning of each sonnet, and at the beginning of the table of first lines (f. 3r). The table of first lines is in red (ff. 3-8v).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002049241", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 3410: Petrarch, Rime" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002049241 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3410 : Petrarch, Rime - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[3411]/040-002049241
- 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:
- 1425
- End Date:
- 1474
- Date Range:
- 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 225 x 145 (140 x 70/85) mm.
Foliation: ff. 145 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 2 unfoliated blank ruled folios after ff. 8 and 145v + 3 parchment leaves at the end).
Script: Humanistic.
Binding: Post-1600. 'Harleian' red leather binding with gold tooling; marbled endpapers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Northern Italy, perhaps Milan.
Provenance:
Written by Bartholomeus: colophon, 'Deo. Gratias. Amen. Bartholomeus' (f. 145v).Unidentified arms enclosed gules, with the charge (argent?) effaced, in a wreath (f. 9r).Ownership inscription, 17th century: 'Anthonius De Monathenl[is?] me possidet: tests meo signo hac afixo A. De Monathenl[is?]' (f. 1v).Ownership inscription, early 18th century [?]: 'Francisco P...bra' (f. 2r).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. 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.
- 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. 3410.
Nicholas Mann, Petrarch Manuscripts in the British Isles, Censimento dei Codici Petrarcheschi, 6 (Padua: Editrice Antenore, 1975), no. 106.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)