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Harley MS 3962

Record Id:

040-002049799

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002049799

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000807.0x0001da

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 3962

Title:

Eusebius of Caesarea, Chronicon, with continuations by Jerome and Prosper of Aquitaine

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-74v: Eusebius of Caesarea, Chronicon, with continuations (ff. 69v-74v) by Jerome and Prosper of Aquitaine.

ff. 75r-82r: Alphabetical index of names in the Chronicon, attributed to Andreas Julianus of Venice (b. 1384, d. 1452), entitled: 'Andreæ Juliani viri patritii veneti et in primis docti in Eusebium tabula'.

Decoration:

2 large gold initials with white vine decoration in colours on ff. 1r, 2r. 2 Large gold initials in green frames with blue and purple inside their letters on ff. 69v and 72r. Large simple initials in blue and red. Rubrics in red.

A roundel with a gold hourglass against a green and blue background circumscribed by a purple banderol inscribed in gold with the motto: 'Acta Probat Exitus' on f. 69v (lower margin).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002049799

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 3962 : Eusebius of Caesarea, Chronicon, with continuations by Jerome and Prosper of Aquitaine

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[3955]/040-002049799

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:

1400

End Date:

1499

Date Range:

15th century

Era:

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User Conditions:

Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: 360 x 240 mm (text space: 245 x 200 mm).

Foliation: ff. 82 (+ 5 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 6 at the end).

Script: Humanistic.

Binding: British Museum in-house; gold-tooled brown speckled leather.

Custodial History:

Origin:

Italy.

Provenance:

An unknown 15th-century owner: their (?) emblem [hourglass] and motto ['Acta Probat Exitus] painted in the lower margin of f. 69v.

Nathaniel Noel (fl. 1681, d. c. 1753), bookseller, employed by Edward Harley for buying books and manuscripts chiefly on the Continent, where his agent was George Suttie: Edward Harley purchased this manuscript on 18 January 1723/4 (see Diary, ed. by Wright and Wright (1966), II, p. 234 n. 1; and Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 254).

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 ‘18 die Januarij, A.D. 1723’ (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:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III, p. 99.

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. 234 n. 1.

Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), p. 254.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Eusebius of Caesarea, Bishop of Caesarea in Palestine, c 263-c 340,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000122758806,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/4929593
Jerome, Saint, c 345-420,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000123213293,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/95147024
Prosper of Aquitaine, Saint, c 390-c 463,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000122799501,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/52485706

Places:

Italy