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Harley MS 3459
- Record Id:
- 040-002049290
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002049290
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x0003b7
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3459
- Title:
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Dante Alighieri, Commedia; the canzone 'Guai a chi nel tormento' attributed to Dante
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 2r-138r: Dante Alighieri, Commedia, with a commentary subjoined to each canto, the metrical prologue by Jacopo Alighieri and arguments in verse and prose for the three canticles.
ff. 138r-138v: A canzone attributed to Dante, beginning: 'Guai a chi nel tormento / sua non puo spander voce'. The canzone has often be regarded as the work of the Sianese poet Bindo Bonichi (b. 1260, d. 1337).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002049290", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 3459: Dante Alighieri, Commedia; the canzone 'Guai a chi nel tormento' attributed to Dante" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002049290 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3459 : Dante Alighieri, Commedia; the canzone 'Guai a chi nel tormento' attributed to Dante - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[3460]/040-002049290
- 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:
- 1475
- End Date:
- 1499
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 330 x 240 mm.
Foliation: ff. i + 138 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 1 parchment and 3 paper flyleaves at the end).
Script: Humanistic cursive.
Binding: Post-1600.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Italy.
Provenance:
Bartolomeo di Giovanni Torniaio, an unknown 15th-century owner: inscribed with his name in a donation note, partially erased: 'Questo libro de pel amore de dio alluogo S(an)c(t)o S(alvato?)re nel mo(nte) de S(an)c(t)o R[?...] da firençe Bartolomeo de Giovanni torniaio el quale disse volea fusse per elemosina e per l'aia de decto Giovanni suo padre e vole sia messo suo posto [...] frati accio preghino dio per lui e per l'anima de dicto padre e dell altri suo proximi. E questo de a di 9 de Marzo 1487' (f. 1v).
?The Franciscan Convent of S. Salvatore al Monte (Monte alle Croci), Florence: given to it by Bartolomeo di Giovanni Torniaio (see above).
John Gibson (fl. 1720-1726), bookseller: sold for the Harley Collection on 28 August 1724; inscribed with the date of purchase by Humfrey Wanley (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 forms 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), III (1808), p. 28.
Wright, Cyril Ernest, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), p. 162.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Alighieri, Dante, 1265-1321,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121446210,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/97105654