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Harley MS 3581
- Record Id:
- 040-002049413
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002049413
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000807.0x00005a
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3581
- Title:
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Dante Alighieri, Commedia
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 2r-226v: Dante Alighieri, Commedia:Inferno (ff. 2r-80v), Purgatorio (ff. 81v-152v); Paradiso (ff. 153r-226v).
f. 226v: Colophon by Geri di Gherardo Risaliti, followed by two lines in Latin, and the Latin epitaph written by Bernardo Canaccio in 1366: 'Iura monarchiae superos Phlegetonta lacusque...'
ff. 227r-229v: Jacopo Alighieri (b. 1289, d. 1348), the proemium of Chiose alla cantica dell'Inferno (Commentary on Dante's Inferno), beginning: '[O] voi che siete nel verace lume'.
ff. 229v-232v: Jacopo Alighieri, Capitoli (Chapters).
ff. 233r-235r: An anonymous poem of 47 terzine entitled La morte di Dante (The Death of Dante).
f. 235v: Cino da Pistoia, Sonetto di Messer Cino da Pistoia biaximando Dante (Cino Da Pistoia's sonnet criticising Dante).
f. 235v: Bosone di Gubbio (fl. 1370), Risposta di Messer Busone a domino Cino (Bosone's response to Cino da Pistoia).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002049413", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 3581: Dante Alighieri, Commedia" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002049413 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3581 : Dante Alighieri, Commedia - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[3583]/040-002049413
- 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:
- 1464
- End Date:
- 1464
- Date Range:
- 1464
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: parchment (ff. 1, 236); paper.
Dimensions: 280 x 200 mm.
Foliation: ff. 236 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 1 unfoliated early modern leaf and 2 modern leaves at the end); [f]237 contains a watermark.
Script: Humanistic cursive
Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house binding.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Italy.
Provenance:
Geri di Gherardo Risaliti: written by him; inscribed with his name: 'Questo libro e di Geri di Gherardo Risaliti' (f. 226v).
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.
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:
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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. 44.
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), I: The Text, p 137 (no. 768).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Alighieri, Dante, 1265-1321,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121446210,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/97105654
Alighieri, Giacopo, 1289-1348
Gubbio, Bosone, soldier, poet and politician, fl 1337-1370
Risaliti, Geri, scribe, fl 1460
da Pistoia, Cino, 1270-1336 - Places:
- Italy