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Harley MS 3677

Record Id:

040-002049509

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002049509

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000807.0x0000ba

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 3677

Title:

Matteo Palmieri, De temporibus

Scope & Content:

This manuscript contains a copy of De temporibus (On Epochs), a universal chronicle of the world from creation up to the year 1469, written by the Florentine historian Matteo Palmieri (b. 1406, d. 1475).

Contents:

ff. 2r-85v: Matteo Palmieri, De temporibus.

[f. 1v is blank].

Decoration:

1 large white vine initial and a partial white vine border with the coat of arms of Marco Barbo (f. 2r). Rubrics, roman numerals, underlining, and marginal notations in red.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002049509

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 3677 : Matteo Palmieri, De temporibus

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[3679]/040-002049509

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:

1475

End Date:

1499

Date Range:

4th quarter of the 15th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment.

Dimensions: 305 x 215 mm (text space: 205 x 150 mm).

Foliation: ff. 85 (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning + 1 unfoliated ruled parchment leaf after f. 1 + 1 unfoliated ruled parchment leaf and 2 paper flyleaves at the end).

Script: Humanistic.

Binding: Post-1600. Brown leather with gold tooling; gilt edges.

Custodial History:

Origin: Central Italy.

Provenance:

Marco Barbo (b. 1420, d. 1491), Bishop of Treviso from 1455 and Cardinal from 1467: his arms of a diagonal gold bar and a white rampant lion on a blue shield, surmounted by a bishop's mitre (f. 2r).

Andrew Ziremberger, owned until 1507: inscribed with a memo of his bequest of the manuscript to Daniel Carnerius, 'Ex legato quond bo: me: Andreas Ziremberger' (f. 1r).

Daniel Carnerius of Ingoldstadt, Bavaria: his monogram and the date 1507 (f. 1r); inscribed, 'Quis mihi sit Dominus lector si forte requiris Ingolstattensis Carnerius Daniel' (f. 2r).

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 February 1719/20 (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 254).

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 Februarij 1719/20' (f. [ii]r). 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:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), no. 3677.

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. 195 n. 20.

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. 123, 368, 254.

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. 175.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Barbo, Marco, Cardinal, Patriarch of Aquileia, 1420-1491,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000061281089,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/37985624
Noel, Nathaniel, bookseller, fl 1681, d c 1753
Palmieri, Matteo, Florentine historian, 1406-1475,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121365568,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/64097675

Places:

Central Italy