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Harley MS 3496

Record Id:

040-002049327

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002049327

MDARK:

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LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 3496

Title:

Petrarch, Trionfi

Scope & Content:

Contents:

The foliation starts with f. 196, which is a paper flyleaf, and is labelled 'Harley MS 3496, art. 6 (spine, f. [i]).ff. 197-234: Petrarch, Trionfi, written in Florence c. 1480 by Nicolaus Mangona, according to de la Mare, 'New Research' (1985), and her unpublished notes at the Bodleian Library, Oxford.

Decoration: 5 historiated initials in gold and colours of the various triumphs, with partial floral borders in gold and colours (ff. 208v, 212v, 219r, 229r, 231v), attributed to Francesco d'Antonio del Chierico. 8 smaller decorated initials in gold on coloured panels; 1 at the beginning of each chapter (ff. 199r, 202r, 205v, 212r, 215v, 221v, 224r, 227r). Numerous small initials in alternating gold and blue at each tercet. Incipits in gold.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002049327

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 3496 : Petrarch, Trionfi

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[3497]/040-002049327

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:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 195 x 115 (125 x 65) mm.

Foliation: Foliated 196-234 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end).

Script: Humanistic, written by Nicolaus Mangona.

Binding: BM/BL in-house. Rebound in 1969.

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Custodial History:

Origin: Florence, Italy.

Provenance:

Written in Florence c. 1480 by Nicolaus Mangona.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 Harley on 25th February 1724/5 (see Wright, Fontes (1972); Wright and 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. 196r). 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: Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts, http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/.

Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), no. 3496.

The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by C. E. Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), II: 1715-1726, p. 343 n. 11.

C. E. Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), p. 239.

Nicholas Mann, Petrarch Manuscripts in the British Isles, Censimento dei Codici Petrarcheschi, 6 (Padova: Editrice Antenore, 1975), no. 112.

Albinia de la Mare, 'New Research on Humanistic Scribes in Florence', in Miniatura fiorentina del Rinascimento, 1440-1525: un primo censimento, ed. by Annarosa Garzelli, 2 vols, ([Florence]: Giunta regionale toscana, 1985), I, pp. 395-574 (p. 518).

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)