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Harley MS 3957

Record Id:

040-002049794

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002049794

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000807.0x0001d5

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 3957

Title:

Eusebius of Caesarea, Chronici canones

Scope & Content:

Eusebius of Caesarea, Chronici canones, title (preface): 'VERBA SANCTISSIMI LITTERARUM PRINCIPIS HIERONIMI ADIURO TE QUICUNQUE HOS DESCRIPSERIS LIBROS...'; rubric: INCIPIT CRONICA EUSEBII HIERONIMI CUM SUPER ADDITIS PROSPERI PRAEFATIO HIERONIMI; incipit: 'Eusebius Hierominus Vincencio et Galieno suis salutem'; explicit: 'Valentiniano vi [faded: et] nono cons. hic finit [faded: Prosper] post hieronimum.'

Decoration: A large white vine initial in gold on a blue panel preceded and followed by display script in red and blue forms a frontispiece to the text (f. 1r). 3 large white vine initials in gold on blue panels (ff. 1v, 2v, 4v). 2 large initials in gold on a blue ground with reserved circles enclosing motifs in red ink (ff. 72v, 75r).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002049794

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 3957 : Eusebius of Caesarea, Chronici canones

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[3950]/040-002049794

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Parchment codex

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1450

End Date:

1474

Date Range:

3rd quarter of the 15th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 300 x 220 mm (text space: 210 x 130 mm).

Foliation: ff. 77 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves: 1 at the beginning and 2 at the end).

Script: Humanistic cursive: written by the same scribe as Harley 2680, according to unpublished notes of A. C. de la Mare at the Bodleian Library, Oxford.

Binding: Post-1600. Binding of brown mottled calf with gold fillets and blind tooling.

Custodial History:

Origin: Italy (Padua?).

Pietro di Montagnana (d. 1478), humanist, grammarian and Rector of the parish of S. Fermo in Padua: marginalia attributed to him by Albina C. de la Mare (unpublished papers preserved at the Bodleian Library, Oxford); probably among his manuscripts bequeathed to the Canons Regular of the Lateran at S. Giovanni di Verdara, Padua, where he retired in 1457 with his entire library.

The monastery of the Canons Regular of the Lateran, S. Giovanni di Verdara, Padua: probably to be identified with the entry in the caatalogue of the monastery's library: 'Chronicon Eusebii. In cuius princ. Adiuro te quicumque hos descripseris lib. Opus autem sic: Incipi. Eusebius Hieronymus Vincentio et Galieno suis salutem. hoc initium habet eiusdem exemplar in Bibliotheca S. Antonii. Huic anescitur Prosper hoc fine. Valentiniano vi & nono consulibus. Hic finit Prosper post Hieronimum. fol...', in G. F. Tomasini, Bibliothecae Patavinae Manuscriptae publicae et privatae (Udine, 1639), p. 18.

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; perhaps acquired by Edward Harley from the book dealer John Gibson (fl. 1720-1726) with other four other manuscripts from S. Giovanni di Verdara (Harley MSS 2454, 2507, 2680 and 3234) on 12 February 1720.

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.

Administrative Context:

Italy (Padua?).

Information About Copies:

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Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London, 1808-12), III (1808) , no. 3957.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Bentinck, Margaret Cavendish, duchess of Portland, née Harley, collector of art and natural history specimens and patron of arts and sciences, 11 Feb 1715-17 Jul 1785,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000115857160,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/2356861
Harley, Edward, second earl of Oxford and Mortimer, book collector and patron of the arts, 2 Jun 1689-16 Jun 1741,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000108078249,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/160524259
Harley, Henrietta Cavendish, Countess of Oxford and Mortimer, née Holles, patron of architecture, 4 Feb 1694-9 Dec 1755,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000030125833,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/6045563
Harley, Robert, first Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, 5 Dec 1661-21 May 1724,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000083423906
Montagnana, Pietro da, Rector of San Fermo, Padua, d 1478