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Harley MS 3479
- Record Id:
- 040-002049310
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002049310
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x0003cb
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3479
- Title:
- Letters of Carlo Visconti, Bishop of Ventimiglia, from the Council of Trent
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 3r-130v: Letters of Carlo Visconti (b. 1523, d. 1565), Bishop of Ventimiglia, from the Council of Trent, written in 1563.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002049310", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 3479: Letters of Carlo Visconti, Bishop of Ventimiglia, from the Council of Trent" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002049310 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3479 : Letters of Carlo Visconti, Bishop of Ventimiglia, from the Council of Trent - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[3480]/040-002049310
- 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:
- 1563
- End Date:
- 1563
- Date Range:
- 1563
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 300 x 230 mm [the original leaves measure 200 mm, but have been widened with paper strips] (text space: 250 x 170 mm).
Foliation: ff. 130 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end).
Script: Italian script.
Binding: British Museum in-house; gold-tooled purple half leather with the Harleian arms gold stamped on the outside covers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Italy.
Provenance:
Bibliothèque Royale, Paris: listed in its catalogue as no. 10042; removed from it in 1707 by Jean Aymon (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 266)
Jean Aymon (b. 1661, d. 1734), French renegade priest and adventurer, stole manuscripts from the Royal Library, Paris, in 1707, and fled to The Hague: an engraving of his portrait has been pasted on f. 2v, inscribed: 'Joannes Aymon Craveta, Delphinas, Ex Dominis Genoliae, Theologus, Jurisconsultus et Mathematicus. Ætatis suæ anno XLIX.'; seen in Holland by Zacaharias Conrad von Uffenbach (b. 1683, d. 1734), and described in his Reisen, where it is listed as manusript no. 7; purchased from him for the Harley Collection via William Sherard (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), pp. 56-57).
William Sherard (b. 1659, d. 1728), botanist and Consul for the Levant Company at Smyrna; acted as intermediary in acquiring this manuscript from Aymon (see Diary, ed. by Wright and Wright (1966), I, p. 124 n. 9; Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 304).
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 ‘29 Novembris, 1721’ (f. 1 recto).
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), III, p. 31.
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. 124 n. 9.
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. 56-57, 266, 304.
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: Alia itinerea II, Great Britain to Spain (1989), p. 149 [where the letters are dated to 1567].
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Visconti, Carlo, Bishop of Ventimiglia, Cardinal 1563, 1523-1565,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000061452589 - Places:
- Italy