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Harley MS 3520/1

Record Id:

040-002049351

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002049351

MDARK:

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Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 3520/1

Title:

Sextus Pompeus Festus, De significatione verborum; Ovid, Amorum libri; collection of Classical inscriptions

Scope & Content:

The first part of a two-volume set, the second volume of which is Harley MS 3520/2. This is a composite manuscript comprising three parts.

Part 1, ff. 1-61, was written in North-Eastern France or the Southern Netherlands in the 3rd quarter of the 15th century

Part 2, ff. 62-89, was written around the mid 17th century.

Part 3, ff. 90-168, was written in Italy in the 15th century.

Part 1:

ff. 2r-61v: Sextus Pompeus Festus, De significatione verborum.

Part 2:

ff. 63r-81v: Ovid, Amorum libri; from the 1567 edition collated by J. Rubens against a manuscript of D. Moretus

ff. 82r-83v: Notes on Ovid's, Fastorum liber primus, headed: 'In Librum 1. Fastorum'.

ff. 84r-85r: 'Estat de l'armee de S.A. de Lorraine 1648'.

ff. 86v-88v: Quotations from Classical works in Latin.

Part 3:

ff. 90r-168v: Italian collection of Classical inscriptions in Latin and Greek.

Decoration:

Part 1:

Large 'champ' initial in colours and gold with ivy and floral sprays extending into the margin (f. 2r). Puzzle initials in red and blue with pen-work decoration in brown and red. Plain initials in red or blue.

Part 2:

No decoration.

Part 3:

Rubrics in red.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002049351

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 3520/1 : Sextus Pompeus Festus, De significatione verborum; Ovid, Amorum libri; collection of Classical inscriptions

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[3521]/040-002049351

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

French
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1395

End Date:

1655

Date Range:

c 1400-c 1650

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper; parchment (ff. 2, 50, 61).

Dimensions: 205 x 150 mm (text space: 165 x 110 mm, in 2 columns [Part 1]; 170 x 120 mm [Part 3]; 145 x 90 mm [Part 3]).

Foliation: ff. 168 (+ 4 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning + 5 at the end); 1 unfoliated paper pastedown on f. 1r; 7 unfoliated blank paper leaves after f. 81; 2 after f. 83; 1 after f. 85; and 3 after 89.

Collation: Gatherings of 12, with quire signatures in the lower right corner of the rectos in the first half of each gathering and horizontal catchword in the lower right corner of the last verso; with the outer bifolium of the first and last gatherings in parchment; last or first leaves of some gatherings now misbound; each quire has been mounted onto a separately paper guard.

Script: Gothic cursive (Part 1); Cursive (Part 2); Humanistic (Part 3).

Binding: British Museum in-house; brown half leather with the Harleian arms gold stamped on the outside covers; rebound on 5 November 1964.

Custodial History:

Origin:

North-Eastern France or Southern Netherlands (Part 1); ? France (Part 2); Italy (Part 3).

Provenance:

Part 1 (ff. 1-61):

Carolus Fontaine of Manthelon, near Corneuil, Eure, France, owned in 1715: his ownership inscription on f. 1r (paper pastedown): 'Ex Libris Caroli Fontaine De Manthelon 1715' (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 154).

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: sold to Edward Harley on 13 August 1724 (see Diary, ed. by Wright and Wright (1966), II, p. 304 n. 7; Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), pp. 254-55).

Part 2 (ff. 62-89):

Johann Georg Graevius (b. 1632, d. 1703), German classical scholar and critic: his catalogue no. 66, sold to Wilhelm together with the rest of his library in 1703 (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 169).

Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (b. 1658, d. 1716), owner of a library in Düsseldorf: bought the entire Graevius library in 1703 (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 169).

Giovanni Giacomo Zamboni (d. 1753), resident in London for the Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (c. 1723-1753), friend of Michael Mattaire, the classical scholar and historian of printing: bought the Wilhelm library sometime before 1724 through Johann Büchels (b. 1659, d. 1738): sold by him to Edward Harley on 20 October 1725 (see Diary, ed. by Wright and Wright (1966), II, p. 385 n. 6; Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 367).

Part 3 (ff. 90-168):

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): sold to Edward Harley on 18 January 1723/24 (see Diary, ed. by Wright and Wright (1966), II, p. 240 n. 4; Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 254).

All parts:

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, ‘13 die mensis Augusti, A.D. 1724' (f. 1r), '20 die Octobris, A.D. 1725' (f. 62r), and '18 die Januarij, A.D. 1723/4' (f. 90r).

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. 360 (no. 3520 [Tom. I.]).

Albert C. Clark, 'The Library of J. G. Graevius', The Classical Review, 5 (1891), 365-72 (p. 371).

The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by Cyril Ernest Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), II: 1723-1726, pp. 240 n. 4, 304 n. 7, 385 n. 6.

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. 154, 169, 254-55, 367, 429.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Festus, Sextus Pompeius, Roman grammarian, fl 2nd century AD
Ovidius Naso, Publius, Roman poet, 43 BC-17,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121427757

Places:

France
Italy
Northern France
Southern Netherlands