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Harley MS 3413
- Record Id:
- 040-002049244
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002049244
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x000359
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3413
- Title:
- Aristotle, Ethica
- Scope & Content:
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Aristotle, Ethica (Nicomachean Ethics), in the Latin translation of Leonardo Bruni of Arezzo (Leonardo Aretino) (ff. 5r-109v), with a preface (ff. 1r-4v), and a table of contents (ff. 110r-123v); rubric (preface): 'Leonardus Aretinus civis florentinus', incipit (preface): 'Aristotelis ethicorum libros facere'; rubric (text): 'Aristotelis ethicorum liber primus per Leonardum Aretinum e greco in latinum traductus de fine omnium operabilium id est feliciter incipit. Tractatus primus an sit felicitas. capitulum primum. proemium', incipit (text): 'Omnis ars et omnis doctrina.'
Includes numerous marginal annotations.
Decoration:
Very large initials in red or red and blue at the beginning of each book, some with a crown of thorns motif. 1 large puzzle initial in red and blue with a crown of thorn motif and red and blue penwork decoration, at the beginning of book 10 (f. 83v). Smaller initials in red or blue. Rubrics in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002049244", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 3413: Aristotle, Ethica" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002049244 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3413 : Aristotle, Ethica - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[3414]/040-002049244
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1430
- End Date:
- 1470
- Date Range:
- Mid 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 220 x 150 mm (text space: 150 x 90 mm).
Foliation: ff. 123 (+ 4 unfoliated flyleaves: 1 paper and 1 parchment at the beginning and 1 paper and 1 parchment at the end).
Script: Humanistic.
Binding: Post-1600. Brown leather binding with gold tooling; marbled endpapers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Italy.
Provenence:
Old shelfmark (?): 'CA. A', 17th century (f. 1r).
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.
- Administrative Context:
- Italy.
- Information About Copies:
-
Select digital coverage available for this manuscript, see Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/welcome.htm.
- Publications:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-1812), III (1808), no. 3413.
Jean-Philippe Genet, 'The Dissemination of Manuscripts Relating to English Political Thought in the Fourteenth Century', in England and Her Neighbours, 1066-1453: Essays in Honour of Pierre Chaplais, ed. by Michael Jones and Malcolm Vale (London: Hambledon Press, 1989), pp. 217-38 (p. 233).
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:
- 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
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