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Harley MS 3503

Record Id:

040-002049334

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002049334

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000807.0x00000b

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 3503

Title:

Excerpts about and from Horace

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-91v: Excerpts about and from Horace, opening with a poem entitled 'Prometheus'. Beginning: 'Audax Iapeti genus'; ending imperfectly in Horace's Odes (Carmina), I, Book 3.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002049334

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 3503 : Excerpts about and from Horace

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[3504]/040-002049334

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:

1549

Date Range:

2nd half of the 15th century-1st half of the 16th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: 190 x 140 mm (text space: 130 x 85 mm).

Foliation: ff. 91 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end).

Script: Humanistic.

Binding: Post-1600. Brown speckled leather with blind-stamped and gold-tooled borders.

Custodial History:

Origin:

? Italy.

Provenance:

Nathaniel Noel (fl. 1681, d. c. 1753), bookseller, employed by Edward Harley for buying books and manuscripts chiefly on the Continent, where his agent was George Suttie (see Wright 1972); purchased from him on 20 January 1721/22 for the Harley Collection (see Diary, ed. by Wright and Wright (1966), I, p. 138 n. 7; Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 254).

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 ‘18 die Januarij. A.D. 1723/4’ (f. i 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:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), p. 34.

The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by C. E. Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), I: 1715-1723, p. 138 n. 7.

Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), p. 254.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Horatius Flaccus, Quintus, also known as Horace, 65 BC-8 BC,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121452178,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/100227522

Places:

Italy