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Harley MS 3990
- Record Id:
- 040-002049827
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002049827
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000807.0x0001f6
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3990
- Title:
- Petrarch, Trionfi, sonnets, and songs
- Scope & Content:
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ff. 1r-31r: Petrarch, I Trionfi (Triumphs), imperfect, the first 10 leaves wanting.
ff. 31v-169r: Petrarch, sonnets and songs.
ff. 170r-175r: examples of address for different churchmen, late 15th century.
f. 175v: late 15th century inscription of a form of address, Latin.
2 blank are ruled leaves between f. 169 and 170.
Decoration:
1 large initial in blue and brown at the beginning of the Rime (f. 31r). 2 smaller initials in blue and brown (ff. 128v, 167r). 11 initials in blue with red penwork decoration (ff. 3r, 6r, 9r, 12v, 15v, 19r, 21r, 24r, 26r, 28v, 159r). Pen-trials (f. 169r). Numerous small initials in red, blue, and brown.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002049827", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 3990: Petrarch, Trionfi, sonnets, and songs" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002049827 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3990 : Petrarch, Trionfi, sonnets, and songs - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[3983]/040-002049827
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Italian
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1467
- End Date:
- 1467
- Date Range:
- 1467
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Paper.
Dimensions: 235 x 160 mm (text space: 155 x 85/90 mm).
Foliation: ff. 175 (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning + 2 at the end).
Script: Semi-humanistic.
Binding: Post-1600. Mottled brown leather with gold tooling.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Italy.
Scribe:
Giorgio di Britio (f. 169r).
Provenance:
Giovanni di Christofano: inscribed, late fifteenth century, 'Conpro giovanni di cristofano dipentore adi detto nella Rocha di Radichofani per l[ibbre] 14 sciolto' (f. 169r).
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.
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: [n. pub.], 1808-12), III (1808), no. 3990.
Nicholas Mann, Petrarch Manuscripts in the British Isles, Censimento dei Codici Petrarcheschi, 6 (Padova: Editrice Antenore, 1975), no. 119.
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), no. 800.
Paul Oskar Kristeller, Iter Italicum: Accedunt Alia Itinera: A Finding List of Uncatalogued or Incompletely Catalogued Humanistic Manuscripts of the Renaissance in Italian and other Libraries, 7 vols (London: Warburg Institute; Leiden: Brill, 1963-1997), IV (1989), p. 178.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)