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Harley MS 4105
- Record Id:
- 040-002049942
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002049942
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000807.0x000269
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 4105
- Title:
- Cicero, Orationes in Verrem and Orationes in Catilinam
- Scope & Content:
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ff. 1r-79r: Cicero, Orationes in Verrem (Speeches against Verres).
ff. 80r-97r: Cicero, Orationes in Catilinam (Speeches against Catiline).
ff. 30r, 79v, and 97v are blank.
The manuscript was probably written by the scribe of Harley 4106 and 4921 and these manuscripts, which are similar in size, style of decoration, and all other particulars (including similar creases in the parchment), may have originally formed a single book or set of volumes.Harley 4105 has a colophon of 1462; Harley 4921 has a colophon of 1463; Harley 4106 lacks a colophon. The manuscripts have alphabetical quire signatures: A, B, C, etc.
Decoration:
Large initials in gold, outlined in black, on red and blue grounds ornamented with white filigree decoration (ff. 1r, 10r, 15r, 30v, 54v, 80r, 80v, 85r (x 2), 89r, 93v). Rubrics in red. Paraphs in red or blue.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002049942", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 4105: Cicero, Orationes in Verrem and Orationes in Catilinam" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002049942 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 4105 : Cicero, Orationes in Verrem and Orationes in Catilinam - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[4098]/040-002049942
- 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:
- 1462
- End Date:
- 1462
- Date Range:
- 1462
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 295 x 200 mm (text space: 215 x 120 mm).
Foliation: ff. 97 ( + 1 unfoliated parchment flyleaf at the beginning and at the end).
Script: Gothic.
Binding: Post-1600. White leather, now green.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
France or England.
Provenance:
Written on 17 December 1462: colophon, 'Explicit liber Quintus Marci Tulii Ciceronis...Anno domini Millesimo Quadringentesimo Sexagesimosecundo decima septima mensis decembris' (f. 97r).
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. 4105.
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. 804.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)