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Harley MS 3582
- Record Id:
- 040-002049414
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002049414
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000807.0x00005b
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3582
- Title:
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Geoffrey de Vinsauf, Poetria nova
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains the Poetria nova (New poetry), an influential Latin textbook written in hexameter verse, which gives advice to future writers about the composition of poetry. The text is attributed to the Anglo-Norman poet Gualterus Anglicus (fl. 1175), but was in fact written by the grammatician Geoffrey de Vinsauf (fl. 1200). This copy of the work features some interlinear glossing, particularly at the beginning of the text.
Contents:
ff. 1r-34r: Geoffrey de Vinsauf, Poetria nova;
f. 34v: a number of later inscriptions and pen-trials in different hands.
Decoration:
1 large initial in red with blue and purple penwork decoration (f. 1r). Smaller initials in blue with red penwork decoration or in red with purple penwork decoration. Rubrics and marginal annotations in red. Paraphs in red or blue.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002049414", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 3582: Geoffrey de Vinsauf, Poetria nova" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002049414 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3582 : Geoffrey de Vinsauf, Poetria nova - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[3584]/040-002049414
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1350
- End Date:
- 1399
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 14th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 280 x 195 mm (written space: 200 x 120 mm).
Foliation: ff. 34 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and end).
Script: Gothic.
Binding: British Museum in-house. Rebound 28 June 1966. Red half-leather binding with the Harleian armorial bookplate, gold-stamped on the upper and lower covers. The gold-tooled brown leather covers of a previous binding are pasted inside the present ones.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Italy.
Provenance:
Cristophanus de Barbarano: inscribed in the 15th century, 'Iste poetria est Christophani de barbarano' (f. 34v).
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 Harley on 20 January 1721/2 (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 63).
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 ‘20 die Januarii, 1721/2’ (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://bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/.
- Publications:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), II (1808), no. 3582.
The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by Cyril Ernest Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), I: 1715-1723, p. 138 n. 8.
Palémon Glorieux, La Faculté des arts et ses maîtres au XIIIe siècle (Paris: Librairie philosophique J. Vrin, 1971), p. 141.
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. 63, 254.
John McKinnell, 'Letters as a Type of the Formal Level in Troilus and Criseyde', in Essays on Troilus and Criseyde, ed. by Mary Salu (Cambridge: Boydell & Brewer, 1979), pp. 73-89 (p. 87 n. 25).
Marjorie Curry Woods, Classroom Commentaries: Teaching the Poetria Nova across Medieval and Renaissance Europe (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2010), p. 297.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Cristophanus de Barbarano, fl 15th century
Geoffrey de Vinsauf, fl 1200
Noel, Nathaniel, bookseller, fl 1681, d c 1753 - Places:
- Italy