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Harley MS 3534
- Record Id:
- 040-002049366
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002049366
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000807.0x00002b
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100056054259.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3534
- Title:
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Horace, Carmina, Epodae, Carmen saeculare, Ars poetica, Epistulae,Sermones
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains the complete works of the Roman poet Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace) (b. 65 BC, d. 8) with interlinear and marginal glosses. It represents one of the 82 surviving copies of Horace’s Satires from the 12th century (Reynolds, ‘Glossing Horace’ (1996), p. 107).
Contents:
ff. 1r-38r: Horace, Carmina (Odes) with interlinear glosses, beginning: ‘Mecenas atavis edite regibus’.
ff. 38r-45r: Horace, Epodae (Epodes) with interlinear glosses, beginning: ‘Ibis Liburnis inter alta navium’.
ff. 45r-46r: Horace, Carmen saeculare (Hymn for a New Age) with interlinear glosses, beginning: ‘[p]hebe silvarumque potens diana’.
ff. 46v-53r: Horace, Ars poetica (The Art of Poetry) with interlinear glosses, beginning: ‘Humano capiti cervicem pictor equinam’.
ff. 53r-69r: Horace, Epistulae (Epistles) with interlinear glosses, beginning: ‘Prima dicte mihi summa dicende Camena’.
ff. 69r-92v: Horace, Sermones (Satires) with interlinear and marginal glosses, beginning: ‘Qui fit Mecenas ut nemo quam sibi sortem’.
Decoration:
Large initials in red (ff. 46v, 53r, 69r). Numerous small initials in brown ink, some with penwork decoration in red or brown. Capitals in red. Some syntactic marks or glosses.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- England and France 700-1200 Project
Harley Collection - Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002049366 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3534 : Horace, Carmina, Epodae, Carmen saeculare, Ars poetica, Epistulae,Sermones - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[3536]/040-002049366
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100056054259.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1175
- End Date:
- 1199
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 205 x 115 mm (text space: 180 x 80 mm).
Foliation: ff. 92 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end).
Script: Protogothic.
Binding: British Museum in-house. Rebound in 1882.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Northern France.
Provenance:
An unknown 12th-century owner: added notes on rhethorical terms (ff. 92r-92v).
Johann Georg Graevius (b. 1632, d. 1703), German classical scholar and critic: sold to Johann Wilhelm in 1703 with the rest of his library (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), pp. 168-69).
Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (b. 1658, d. 1716), owner of a library in Düsseldorf: bought the entire Graevius library in 1703 (Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 168).
Johann Büchels (b. 1659, d. 1738): sold the manuscript to Giovanni Giacomo Zamboni (Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), pp. 367-68).
Giovanni Giacomo Zamboni (d. 1753), resident in London for the Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (c. 1723-1753): bought the Wilhelm library sometime before 1724 through Johann Büchels (b. 1659, d. 1738) (Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), pp. 367-68).
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 ‘6 die Mensis Augusti, A.D. 1724’ (f. 1r).
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:
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- 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. 38 (no. 3534).
Arthur C. Clark, 'The Library of J. G. Graevius', The Classical Review, 5 (1891), 365-372 (p. 369).
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, p. 303 (n. 13).
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. 168-69, 367.
Birger Munk Olsen, L’Étude des auteurs classiques latins aux XIe et XIIe siècles, 3 vols (Paris: Centre national de la recherche scientifique, 1982-1989), I, p. 462 (no. C. 92).
Suzanne Reynolds, 'Glossing Horace: Using the Classics in the Medieval Classroom', in Medieval Manuscripts of the Latin Classics: Production and Use: Proceedings of the Seminar of the History of the Book to 1500, Leiden, 1993, ed. by Claudine A. Chauvannes-Mazel and Margaret McFadden Smith (Palo Alto, CA: Anderson-Lovelace, 1996), pp. 103-17 (pp. 107-09, pl. 1).
Sylvia Wälli, 'Melodien aus Mittelalterlichen Horaz-Handschriften', Monumenta Monodica Medii Aevi, Subsidia, 3 (2002), 147-50.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Notes:
- This manuscript is part of The Polonsky Foundation England and France Project: Manuscripts from the British Library and the Bibliothèque nationale de France, 700-1200.