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Harley MS 4090

Record Id:

040-002049927

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002049927

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000807.0x00025a

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 4090

Title:

Francesco Barbaro, De re uxoria

Scope & Content:

This manuscript contains a copy of De re uxoria, a treatise on marriage written by Francesco Barbaro (b. 1390, d. 1454), a Venetian politician, diplomat and humanist. The work was composed to celebrate the marriage of Lorenzo de Medici (b. c. 1395, d. 1440) and Ginevra Cavalcanti (b. 1397, d. 1435) in 1415.

Contents:

ff. 3r-66r: Francesco Barbaro, De re uxoria (On marriage).

[ff. 1 is a rejected leaf, containing part of the text, and copied by the same scribe as the rest of the manuscript; ff. 2v and 66v are blank].

Decoration:

1 large white vine initial in colours and gold, and, in the lower margin, the arms of Camillus de Rizzoni of Verona in colours and silver (f. 3r). Plain initials in red and blue. Rubrics in red.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002049927

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 4090 : Francesco Barbaro, De re uxoria

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[4083]/040-002049927

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:

1450

End Date:

1499

Date Range:

2nd half of the 15th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment.

Dimensions: 200 x 140 mm (text space: 140 x 75 mm).

Foliation: ff. 66 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end and + 6 unfoliated ruled parchment leaves after f. 66); ff. 1 and [72] are former pastedowns.

Script: Humanistic.

Binding: Post-1600. 'Harleian' binding of gold-tooled red leather; marbled endpapers.

Custodial History:

Origin: Northern Italy.

Provenance:

Benedictus de Burgo, 15th century: inscribed, 'Ego benedictus de burgo scripsit hic de manu propria' (f. 2r).

Camillus de Rizzoni of Verona, 15th century: inscribed, 'Mei Camilli de Rizonibus' (f. 2r); his arms (f. 3r).

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 (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 254): sold to Harley on 20 January 1721/22.

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. 1r). 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:

Select digital coverage available for this manuscript; see the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts, https://bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/.

Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: [n. pub.], 1808-12), III (1808), no. 4090.

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. 87, 254, 286.

Cyril Ernest Wright, 'Manuscripts of Italian Provenance in the Harleian Collection in the British Museum: Their Sources, Associations and Channels of Acquisition', in Cultural Aspects of the Italian Renaissance. Essays in Honour of Paul Oskar Kristeller, ed. by C. H. Clough (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1976), pp. 462-84 (p. 483 n. 55).

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Barbaro, Francesco, Italian diplomat and humanist, 1390-1454,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121205935,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/10646727
Benedictus de Burgo, fl. 15th century
Camillus de Rizzoni of Verona, fl. 15th century
Noel, Nathaniel, bookseller, fl 1681, d c 1753

Places:

Northern Italy