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Harley MS 3551
- Record Id:
- 040-002049383
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002049383
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000807.0x00003c
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3551
- Title:
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Plato, Phaedo, translated into Latin by Leonardo Bruni
- Scope & Content:
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A humanist copy of Leonardo Bruni's Latin translation of Plato's Phaedo copied by Nicolai de Camulio of Genoa.
Contents:
ff. 1r-1v: Inscriptions, 'Liber Phedronis scriptus manu mei Nicolai de Camulio notarii et cancellarii Januensis etc. die X Febr.ii MCCCCLVII. D. Prosper filius D. Nicolay donavit hunc librum D. Comiti Alberto Scotto'. f.1v. The same note, repeated in capitals.
ff. 2r-33v: Plato, Phaedo, translated into Latin by Leonardo Bruni.
- ff. 2r-2v: Leonardo Bruni, Dedication to Niccolo Niccoli, begins 'Etsi ego mi Nicolae...', printed in Leonardi Bruni Arretini Epistolarum libri VIII, 2 vols (Florence, 1741), I, pp. 15-17.
- ff. 2v-3r: Leonardo Bruni, Dedication to Pope Innocent VII, begins 'Qui laudant sanctitatem tuam...', printed in H. Baron, Leonardo Bruni Aretino, Humanistisch- philosophische Schriften (Leipzig, 1928), pp. 3-4.
- ff. 3v-33v: Plato, Phaedo, in the Latin translation by Bruni, begins 'Ipse affuisti o Phaedro...' ends with colophon 'scriptum Caffe MCCCCXVI die VIII a Julii manu mei Nicolai de Camulio notarii relegati.'.
ff. 34r-35v: Ruled parchment leaves with inscriptions.
Decoration:
1 large white vine initial in colours and gold with the arms of the Scotti family in the lower margin (f. 2r). 2 white vine initials in colours and gold with foliate extensions (ff. 2v, 3v). Protagonists' names in red. Capitals marked in yellow.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002049383", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 3551: Plato, Phaedo, translated into Latin by Leonardo Bruni" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002049383 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3551 : Plato, Phaedo, translated into Latin by Leonardo Bruni - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[3553]/040-002049383
- 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:
- 1416
- End Date:
- 1416
- Date Range:
- 1416
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 270 x 190 mm (215 x 150 mm) in two columns.
Foliation: ff. 35 (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning and 2 at the end).
Script: Humanistic, written by Nicolai de Camulio (Nicolo Schiaffini da Camogli).
Binding: British Museum in-house; rebound in 1966.
Horizontal catchwords.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Fedosiya, Crimea, Ukraine.
Provenance:
Written in 1416 by Nicolò Schiaffini da Camogli: inscribed, 'Liber Phedronis scriptus manu mei Nicolai de Camulio notarij et cancellarij Ianuensis [Genoa]' (ff. 1r, 1v); and 'Deo Gratias: Scriptum Caffe [Feodosiya, Crimea] 'MoCCCCXVIo Die VIIIa Iulii manu mei Nicolai de Camulio notarii relegati' (f. 33v).
Prosper da Camogli, son of Nicolò da Camogli: inscription recording the gift of the manuscript by him to Count Alberto Scotti in 1457, 'Die X Februarij MCCCC o LVII D. Prosper fillius D. Nicolay donavit hunc librum D. Comiti Alberto Scotto (ff. 1r, 1v).
Alberto Scotti (d. 1462), count, of the Scotti family of Mantua, Piacenza and Rome: his initials and arms (f. 2r); and inscription recording the gift of the manuscript to him by Prosper da Camogli in 1457 (ff. 1r, 1v).
Inscribed, 'Franciscus Scotus comes' (f. 35r).
Philipus de Guacijs: inscribed: '1516. Iste liber est meus philipus de guacijs qui est bonus disipolus' (f. 34v).
John Gibson (fl. 1720-1726), dealer; sold to Harley on 28 August 1724 (see Wright, Diary (1966); Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972).
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 ‘28 die 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:
- Select digital coverage available for this manuscript; see the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts: https://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=4310&CollID=8&NStart=3551.
- 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), no. 3551.
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. 312 n. 2.
J. J. G. Alexander and A. C. de la Mare, The Italian Manuscripts in the Library of Major J. R. Abbey (London: Faber and Faber, 1969), p. 28, xxiv, xxvi, pl. 11.
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. 94, 162, 166, 299.
Cyril Ernest Wright, 'Manuscripts of Italian Provenance in the Harleian Collection in the British Museum: Their Sources, Associations and Channels of Acquisition', in Cultural Aspects of the Italian Renaissance. Essays in Honour of Paul Oskar Kristeller, ed. by C. H. Clough (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1976), pp. 462-84 (p. 467).
E. Berti, 'La traduzione di Leonardo Bruni del Fedone di Platone ed un codice greco della Bibliotheca Bodmeriana,' Museum Helveticum, 35 (1978), 125-48 (passim).
Andrew G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c. 700-1600 in The Department of Manuscripts: The British Library, 2 vols (London: British Library, 1979), no. 765.
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 (1989), p. 174.
J. Hankins, Plato in the Italian Renaissance, 2 vols (Leiden: Brill, 1990) II, pp. 695-96. no. 146.
Censimento dei codici dell’epistolario di Leonardo Bruni, ed. by Lucia Gualdo Rosa, 2 Vols (Rome: Istituto storico italiano per il Medio Evo, 1993), I, pp. 149-150, pl. 80, 81.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Bruni, Leonardo, Italian humanist, 1370-1444,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121442279
Gibson, John, book-dealer, fl 1720-1726
Plato, 427 BC-347 BC