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Harley MS 4088

Record Id:

040-002049925

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002049925

MDARK:

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LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 4088

Title:

Ciriaco d'Ancona, Naumachia; Bernardinus Capella and Gasparus Manius, Eclogues

Scope & Content:

A composite manuscript, consisting of two separate parts (ff. 1-12 and ff. 13-21) copied at different times.

The first contains a work by the humanist scholar Ciriaco d'Ancona (b. 1391, d. 1455), the second poems by Bernardino Capella (1460-1524) and Gaspar Manius (b. 1457, d. 1497). The first part was probably corrected by Ciriaco himself.

Contents:

ff. 1r-12v: Ciriaco d'Ancona, Naumachia ('Kyriaci Anconitani de Pontiano Taraconensium regis conflictu navali commentarium ad Franciscum Scalamontium'), begins 'Vellem, o quam libentissime, praestantissime, Francisce Eques...'. Ends with colophon 'Exactum Anconi Idibus Septembribus'. Printed in Kyriaci Anconitani Naumachia regia, ed. by Liliana Monti Sabia, (Pisa: Istituti editoriali e poligrafici internazionali, 2000).

ff. 13r-21v: Bernardinus Capella and Gasparus Manius, Eclogues. Comprising the prose preface to Raffaele Sansoni Riario, Cardinal of St. George (ff. 13r-13v); Ecloga (ff. 14r-18r); Gasparus Manius, Carmen ad Cardinalem Sancti Georgii (ff. 18r-19v); Bernardinus Capella, Carmen ad Cardinalem Sancti Georgii (ff. 20r-21r).

Decoration:

White vine initial with a bird and a butterfly (f. 1r). Initials in gold or silver in first part. Rubrics in ochre ink in the second part.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002049925

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 4088 : Ciriaco d'Ancona, Naumachia; Bernardinus Capella and Gasparus Manius, Eclogues

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[4081]/040-002049925

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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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimension: 205 x 130 mm (125 x 70 mm in first and 130 x 70 mm in second part).

Foliation: ff. 21 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves and 1 ruled parchment flyleaf at the beginning + 1 unfoliated ruled parchment leaf after f. 12 + 2 ruled parchment leaves and numerous modern paper flyleaves at the end).

Script: Two hands in the two parts of the manuscript: Humanistic in the first (ff. 1r-12v) and humanistic cursive in the second part (ff. 13r-21v).

Binding: British Museum in-house. Rebound in 1967.

Custodial History:

Origin:

Central Italy, probably Ancona for the first part and Italy for the second part.

Provenance:

The manuscript consists of two parts copied separately.

ff. 1-12: Ciriaco d'Ancona (b. 1391, d. 1455): corrected by him (Sabia, Naumachia (2000)).

ff. 13-21: Raffaele Sansoni Riario (b. 1461, d. 1521), Cardinal of St George: perhaps in his possession as it was dedicated to him.

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 (Wright, Fontes, (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 ‘20 die Januarij, A.D. 1721/22’ (f. [iv] 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.

Information About Copies:

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Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: [n. pub.], 1808-12), III (1808), no. 4088.

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.

The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by Cyril Ernest Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), I: 1715-1723, p. 138 n. 8.

Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 253-54.

Kyriaci Anconitani Naumachia regia, ed. by Liliana Monti Sabia (Pisa: Istituti editoriali e poligrafici internazionali, 2000), p. 85 (manuscript H).

Catalogus Translationum et Commentariorum: Medieval and Renaissance Latin Translations and Commentaries, Annotated Lists and Guides, 1-9 vols (Washington: Catholic University of America Press, 1959-2011), IX (2011), p. 204.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Cyriacus, Anconitanus
Noel, Nathaniel, bookseller, fl 1681, d c 1753
Suttie, George, agent of Nathaniel Noel, bookseller