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Harley MS 4079
- Record Id:
- 040-002049916
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002049916
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000807.0x00024f
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 4079
- Title:
- Horace, Odes, Epodes, Carmen Saeculare, and Epistolarum
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 3r-73r: Horace, Odes.
ff. 73r-86v: Horace, Epodes.
ff. 86v-87v: Horace, Carmen Saeculare.
ff. 88r-98v: Horace, Ars Poetica.
f. 98v: A title from Marcus Terentius Varro's Menippean Satires: 'Nescis quid vehat vesper'.
f. 98v: Virgil, Moretum; imperfect.
ff. 100r-129r: Horace, Epistolarum.
The manuscript contains several additions:
ff. 1r-2v, 130r-131v: Liturgical chants with music notation, including the openings 'Sicut fui cum moyse' and 'Domine labia mea aperies et os meum annuntiabit laudem tuam'; written in Humanistic script from the (?) 14th century.
f. 1v: Explanation of the Hexameter and Pentameter; added in the (?) 15th century.
f. 129r: A short biography of Horace, beginning: '"Quintus Flaccus oratius [...] est Apulie LIbertino patre natus in Sabinos cum parente'; added in the (?) 15th century.
f. 129v: A line from Virgil, Aeneid: 'Iam cornu petat et pedibus qui spargat arenam'; added in the (?) 15th century.
f. 129v: Note on Porphyry and Helenius Acron; added in the (?) 15th century.
f. 129v: Explanation of grammatical rhythm from Diomedes Grammaticus, beginning: 'Rittmus [sic: 'Rythmus'] est pedum temporum iunctura cum levitate sine modo'; added in the (?) 15th century.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002049916", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 4079: Horace, Odes, Epodes, Carmen Saeculare, and Epistolarum" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002049916 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 4079 : Horace, Odes, Epodes, Carmen Saeculare, and Epistolarum - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[4072]/040-002049916
- 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:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper; parchment (only ff. 1-2, 130-131).
Dimensions: 205 x 140 (text space: 140-145 x 85-100 mm).
Foliation: ff. 131 (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning + 1 at the end); ff. 1-2, and 130-131 are parchment leaves from another manuscript that have been reused as flyleaves for this manuscript; 3 unfoliated blank paper leaves between f. 99 and f. 100.
Script: Humanistic; Humanistic cursive.
Binding: British Museum in-house; gold-tooled brown speckled leather with the initials 'M. B.' (Museum Brittanicum) gold stamped on the upper cover.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Italy.
Provenance:
Jacobus de Luha, owned in the 15th century: his ownership inscription on f. 129r: 'Hic liber est iacobi deluha'.
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: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III, p. 113.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Diomedes Grammaticus, Latin grammarian, fl 4th century,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000061311321
Horatius Flaccus, Quintus, also known as Horace, 65 BC-8 BC,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121452178,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/100227522
Varro, Marcus Terentius, 116-27 BC,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121452047
Vergilius Maro, Publius, 70 BC-19 BC,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000430695667 - Places:
- Italy