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Harley MS 3713
- Record Id:
- 040-002049545
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002049545
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000807.0x0000de
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3713
- Title:
- Liutprand of Cremona, Antapodosis
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
f. 1r: A title inscription: 'In hoc libro continentur Gesta Imperatorum et Regum totius Europae'.
ff. 1v-92r: Liutprand of Cremona [Liudprandus Cremonensis], Antapodosis [Liber regum et principium partis Europae], with a table of contents at the beginning of each book.
Decoration:
Large (2-line) initials in red. Rubrics in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002049545", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 3713: Liutprand of Cremona, Antapodosis" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002049545 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3713 : Liutprand of Cremona, Antapodosis - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[3715]/040-002049545
- 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:
- 1050
- End Date:
- 1149
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 11th century-1st half of 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Letter of introduction required to view this manuscript
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 240 x 170 mm (text space: 170 x 100 mm; ruled in hardpoint).
Foliation: ff. 92 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end); numerous folios have been trimmed on the outer and/or lower margins.
Script: Caroline minuscule.
Binding: Post-1600: 'Harleian' binding of gold-tooled red leather; marbled endpapers.
- Custodial History:
-
Origin:
Germany
Provenance:
'Goswin', 15th century: his ownership inscription on f. 92v: 'liber Goswin [?Schamer] de [?durstan]'; legible with UV light (previously unnoticed and not recorded in Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)).
Johann Georg Graevius (b. 1632, d. 1703), German classical scholar and critic: not listed in his catalogue, but perhaps owned by him and sold to Johann Wilhelm in 1703 with the rest of his library (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 169).
Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (b. 1658, d. 1716), owner of a library in Düsseldorf: bought the entire Graevius library in 1703 (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 169).
Giovanni Giacomo Zamboni (d. 1753), resident in London for the Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (c. 1723-1753), friend of Michael Mattaire, the classical scholar and historian of printing: bought the Wilhelm library sometime before 1724 through Johann Büchels (b. 1659, d. 1738): sold by him to Edward Harley on 20 October 1725 (see Diary, ed. by Wright and Wright (1966), II, 385 n. 6; Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 365).
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 mensis Octobris A.D. 1725' (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.
- 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. 3713.
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. 385, n. 6.
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. 169, 367.
Liudprand of Cremona, The Complete Works of Liudprand of Cremona, ed. and trans. by Paolo Squatriti (Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2007) [for the text].
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- Germany