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Harley MS 3944
- Record Id:
- 040-002049781
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002049781
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000807.0x0001c8
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3944
- Title:
- Virgil, Aeneid, Bucolics, and Georgics
- Scope & Content:
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ff. 1*r-v: Fragment of a service book, 10th century, Italy.
ff. 1r-126r: Virgil, Aeneid, glossed in multiple hands.
ff. 126r-137r: Virgil, Bucolics, glossed in multiple hands.
ff. 137v-164v: Virgil, Georgics, glossed in multiple hands.
f. 126: A list of ancient Italian kings ending with Julius Caesar, 14th century.
f. 164v: A faded inscription, possibly medical, about Roger, king of Sicily.
Decoration:
ff. 1*r-v: Initials in silver outlined in black or black outlined in silver, showing the red preparation ground for the silver; rubrics in silver showing its red ground. ff. 1r-164v: Initials in red; verse initials highlighted in red; unfinished, spaces for initials left blank.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002049781", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 3944: Virgil, Aeneid, Bucolics, and Georgics" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002049781 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3944 : Virgil, Aeneid, Bucolics, and Georgics - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[3937]/040-002049781
- 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:
- 1300
- End Date:
- 1399
- Date Range:
- 14th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Letter of introduction required to view this manuscript
- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 270 x 150 mm (text space: 205 x 65 mm).
Foliation: ff. 1 + 164 (f. 1* is the original flyleaf; + 3 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and 4 at the end).
Script: Gothic.
Binding: Post-1600. British Museum in-house. Rebound in 1969.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Italy.
Provenance:
Marginal notes and maniculae added by 14th- and 15th-century Italian hands.
Andrew Hay (d. 1754?), dealer: owned at Venice in 1722 (see Wright 1972).
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, ‘13 die Julij, A.D. 1723’ (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.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)