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Harley MS 4165
- Record Id:
- 040-002050002
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002050002
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000807.0x0002b7
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 4165
- Title:
- Aeneas of Gaza, Theophrastus
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-70r: Aeneas of Gaza, Theophrastus; imperfect at the beginning due to missing folios, now opening with the line: 'quandoquidem amantes ut fui invicem fruantur contubernio studiose molitur'.
The manuscript contains a later addition:
f. [70e]recto: A single inscription: 'Busara'; added in the (?) 16th or 17th century.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002050002", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 4165: Aeneas of Gaza, Theophrastus" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002050002 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 4165 : Aeneas of Gaza, Theophrastus - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[4158]/040-002050002
- 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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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 175 x 100 mm (text space: 105 x 60 mm).
Foliation: ff. 70 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 5 unfoliated parchment flyleaves and 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end).
Collation: Indicated by quire numbers in Roman numerals and vertical catchwords.
Script: Humanistic.
Binding: Post-1600. 'Harleian' binding of gold-stamped and -tooled red Morocco leather; marbled endpapers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Italy.
Provenance:
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: Edward Harley purchased this manuscript on 20 January, 1721/2 (see Diary, ed. by Wright and Wright (1966), I, p. 138 n. 8; Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 254).
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 mensis 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.
- Publications:
- A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III, p. 143.
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), p. 121.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- Italy