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Harley MS 3436

Record Id:

040-002049267

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002049267

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x0003a0

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 3436

Title:

Theological miscellany including Eusebius of Cremona, Epistola de morte Hieronymi

Scope & Content:

Theological miscellany containing late medieval and early Christian hagiographical texts along with works and letters by Italian humanists.

Contents:

f. 1r: Inscriptions.

f. 1v: Added inscription: 'Nobili domino Ambrosio Spinula d. Stefani'.

ff. 2r-44r: Eusebius of Cremona, Epistola de morte Hieronymi.

ff. 44v-52v: Pseudo-Augustine, Epistola de magnificentiis Hieronymi.

ff. 53r-91v. Pseudo-Cyril of Jerusalem, Epistola ad Augustinum de miraculis Hieronymi.

ff. 92r-95v: Legenda divi Hieronymi.

ff. 96r-102r: Jerome, Life of St Paul the Hermit.

ff. 102v-109r: Leonardo Bruni, In hypocritas, printed in Commentariorum de concilio Basileae celebrato libri duo (Basel, ca. 1535), pp. 306-12.

ff. 109v-118r: Timothei Maffei Veronensis Canonici Regularis ad Nicolaum Q(uintum) Pontificem Maximum episcopatus Mediolani renunciatio, printed in Patrizia De Corso, 'La rinuncia di Timoteo Maffei al vescovato milanese', Rivista di letteratura religiosa italiana, 2 (2019), 37-64.

ff. 118v-124v: Petrarch, Letter to Nicolo Azaiolo, printed in Francesco Petrarca, Le Familiari, ed. by Vittorio Rossi, 4 vols (Florence: G. C. Sansoni, 1933-1942), I (1933), pp. 5-17.

ff. 124v-128v: Seneca, De remediisfortuitorum, printed in L. Annaei Senecae opera quae supersunt. Supplementum, ed, by F Haase (Leipzig: Teubner, 1902), pp. 44-55.

f. 129r: blank.

f. 129v: Inscriptions: 'Dominis Ambrosio Johanni Pasquali Federico Ludovico Jeronimo et Paulo Spinulis'.

ff. 130r-133r: Blank pages and notes.

Decoration:

Large initial in gold and colours with acanthus leaves (f. 2r). Large blue initials (ff. 53r, 124v), some with reserved lines (ff. 44v, 96r, 102v, 109v). Smaller coloured initials in alternating red and blue.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002049267

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 3436 : Theological miscellany including Eusebius of Cremona, Epistola de morte Hieronymi

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[3437]/040-002049267

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:

1450

End Date:

1499

Date Range:

2nd half of the 15th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: 230 x 165 mm (150 x 100 mm).

Foliation: ff. 133 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end + 1 unfoliated ruled leaf after f. 129).

Script: Humanistic cursive.

Binding: Post-1600. Binding of brown mottled calf with gold fillets and blind tooling.

Custodial History:

Origin:

Northern Italy.

Provenance:

Circular diagram with, in its lower part, inscribed 'Ego Ioh[ann]es' de ?cerme[n]ti de ?bonifacio', probably from the 15th century (f. 1r).

Inscribed 'Johannes' several times, 15th or 16th century (f. 133v).

Various inscriptions and scribbles, 15th-16th century (ff. 130v, 131v-133v).

Inscribed 'Nicolaus Durantis', (f. 132v).

Inscribed 'Ego p[res]b[ite]r Bernardus ?Ravasiter', ?16th century (f. 133v).

Drawing of a hand holding a rabbit, probably 16th century (f. 132v).

Leonardo Spinola (b. c. 1525, d. 1598), of Milan: inscribed with his name (f. 1r), and names of members of the Spinola family (ff. 1v, 129v, 131v).

Conyers Middleton (b. 1683, d. 1750), fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge from 1706, head librarian of the University Library at Cambridge (1721-50); sold to Edward Harley on 25 February 1724/5 (Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972); Wright, 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 ‘25 die mensis Februarij, A.D. 1724/5’ (f. 1). 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:

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Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), no. 3436.

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, p. 343 n. 1.

Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 239, 312.

Nicholas Mann, Petrarch Manuscripts in the British Isles (Padua, 1975), pp. 286-87. num. 108.

Cyril Ernest Wright, 'Manuscripts of Italian Provenance in the Harleian Collection in the British Museum: Their Sources, Associations and Channels of Acquisition', in Cultural Aspects of the Italian Renaissance. Essays in Honour of Paul Oskar Kristeller, ed. by C. H. Clough (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1976), pp. 462-84 (p. 471).

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:

Annaeus Seneca, Lucius, also known as Seneca the Younger, 4 BC-65,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121030100,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/90637919
Bruni, Leonardo, Italian humanist, 1370-1444,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121442279
Middleton, Conyers, fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge and head librarian of the University Library, Cambridge, 1683-1750
Petrarca, Francesco, poet, 1304-1374