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Harley MS 4110
- Record Id:
- 040-002049947
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002049947
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000807.0x00026e
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 4110
- Title:
- Account of the city of Venice and coats of arms of its noble families
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-85r: Account of the city of Venice to the year 1381, with a list of its noble families. Followed by their coats of arms, painted in colours and accompanied by names and descriptions up to the family of Canabrii, originally in alphabetical order but now rearranged, written in Italian, beginning: 'La nobile città de Venezia ha la sua denominacion da uno ducha troiano'.
The manuscript contains a few additions:
ff. 1r, 2r: Sketches of heraldic motifs in brown ink.
Decoration:
Coats of arms painted in colours on ff. 13r-85r.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002049947", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 4110: Account of the city of Venice and coats of arms of its noble families" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002049947 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 4110 : Account of the city of Venice and coats of arms of its noble families - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[4103]/040-002049947
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Italian
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1475
- End Date:
- 1549
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 15th century-1st half of the 16th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 305 x 215 mm (text space: 240 x 170 mm).
Foliation: ff. 86 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning); 1 unfoliated paper pastedown on f. [i]recto (bibliographical notes).
Script: 16th-century script.
Binding: Marbled paper over pasteboards; bound together with Harley MS 5851.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Italy.
Provenance:
? 'Johannis', (?) 16th century: their name inscribed on f. 86v: 'J[o]annis de [? tiramanis]'.
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), I (1808), p. 115.
Cesare Foligno, 'Codici di materia veneta nelle biblioteche inglesi', Nuovo Archivio Veneto, New Series, 11:1 (1906), 163-193 (p. 171 [no. 74]).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- Italy