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Harley MS 3893
- Record Id:
- 040-002049729
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002049729
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000807.0x000194
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3893
- Title:
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Cicero, De oratore; Epitaphia Ciceronis duodecim sapientum
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 2r-91v: Marcus Tullius Cicero, De oratore.
ff. 91v-92v: Epitaphia Ciceronis duodecim sapientum (‘Epitaphia Ciceronis edita a xij sapientissimis’).
Decoration:
Display script (red and brown rustic capitals) on f. 2r.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002049729", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 3893: Cicero, De oratore; Epitaphia Ciceronis duodecim sapientum" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002049729 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3893 : Cicero, De oratore; Epitaphia Ciceronis duodecim sapientum - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[3885]/040-002049729
- 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:
- 1465
- End Date:
- 1465
- Date Range:
- 1465
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 180 x 125 mm.
Foliation: ff. 92 (+ 2 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves and 1 unfoliated parchment flyleaf at the beginning + at the end);
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: Post-1600. Harleian binding.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Italy.
Provenance:
An Italian scribe, written in 1465: a colophon on f. 91v: ‘Finis Anno domini iiij kalendas decembris MoCCCColxvo. Et Antonius de princiualibus aseta civis vincentinus presens hoc opusculum incepit ac ad hunc usque locum perduxit’.
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 Januarij A.D. 1721/2' (f. [iii]recto).
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. 95.
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. 140 (no. 791); II: The Plates, p. 682.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Tullius Cicero, Marcus, 106 BC-43 BC,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000139322910,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/78769600 - Places:
- Italy
- Related Material:
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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. 95.