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Harley MS 3932
- Record Id:
- 040-002049769
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002049769
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000807.0x0001bc
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3932
- Title:
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Pseudo-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
f. 1r: Title-page, added in a post-medieval hand.
ff. 2r-43v: Pseudo-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium (Rhetoric for Herennius).
f. 44v: an added inscription in a 15th-century Italian hand.
ff. 1v and 44r are ruled and unwritten.
Decoration:
White vine initial in colours and gold with decoration extending into the margins (f. 2r). White vine initials in colours and gold (ff. 7v, 16v, 17v). Coloured initials in red or blue.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002049769", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 3932: Pseudo-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002049769 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3932 : Pseudo-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[3925]/040-002049769
- 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:
- 1450
- End Date:
- 1474
- Date Range:
- 3rd quarter of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 200 x 135 mm (written space: 125 x 85 mm).
Foliation: ff. 44 (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf and 1 unfoliated partly ruled parchment leaf at the beginning + 1 unfoliated ruled leaf after f. 43 + 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the end).
f. [ii] is a former pastedown.
Script: Humanistic.
Binding: Post-1600. Brown mottled calf-skin with gold fillets.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Northeastern Italy (possibly Venice).
Provenance:
According to unpublished notes of A. C. de la Mare at the Bodleian Library, Oxford, this manuscript was made in the 3rd quarter of the 15th century, possibly in Venice.An added inscription in a 15th-century Italian hand (f. 44v).
John Gibson (fl. 1720-1726), dealer; sold on 12 February 1719/20 (Diary (1966), I, p. 194 n. 10; Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), pp. 162-63.
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 ‘12 Febr. 1719/20’ (f. 2r). 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: [n. pub.], 1808-12), III (1808) , no. 3932.
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. 194 n. 10.
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. 162-63.
Susan Gallick, 'Medieval Rhetorical Arts in England and the Manuscript Traditions', Manuscripta, 18: 2 (1974), 67-95 (p. 91).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Gibson, John, book-dealer, fl 1720-1726
Pseudo-Cicero, 1st century BC,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000139322910,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/305360068 - Places:
- Venice, Italy