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Harley MS 4169
- Record Id:
- 040-002050006
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002050006
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000807.0x0002bb
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 4169
- Title:
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Cicero, De Senectute, De Amicitia, and Paradoxica stoicorum
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains copies of three treatises by the Roman statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero (b. 106, d. 43 BC): De Senectute (On Old Age), De Amicitia (On Friendship), and Paradoxica stoicorum (Stoic Paradoxes). The manuscript features added marginal annotations in Latin and Greek.
Contents:
ff. 2r-40r: Cicero, De Senectute (On Old Age);
ff. 40v-79r: Cicero, De Amicitia (On Friendship);
ff. 79v-98r: Cicero, Paradoxica stoicorum (Stoic Paradoxes);
The manuscript contains later additions:
f. 98v: The Hail Mary, written in Greek.
f. 98v: The Pater Noster, written in Greek.
[f. 1v is blank].
Decoration:
3 large initials in silver with simple white vine stem motifs and multi-coloured grounds (ff. 2r, 40v, 79v). 4 plain initials in red (ff. 3r, 80v, 88r, 94r). 2 plain initials in blue (ff. 85v, 90v).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002050006", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 4169: Cicero, De Senectute, De Amicitia, and Paradoxica stoicorum" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002050006 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 4169 : Cicero, De Senectute, De Amicitia, and Paradoxica stoicorum - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[4162]/040-002050006
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Greek, Modern
Latin - Scripts:
- Greek
Latin - Start Date:
- 1400
- End Date:
- 1424
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 175 x 110 mm (text space: 125 x 70 mm).
Foliation: ff. 98 (+ 1 unfoliated paper and 2 parchment flyleaves at the beginning + 1 unfoliated parchment and 3 paper flyleaves at the end).
Script: Humanistic.
Binding: Post-1600. Brown leather with gold tooling; marbled endpapers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Italy.
Provenance:
The Jesuit College in Agen (Lot-et-Garonne, France), maintained by the Jesuits from 1591 to 1762: inscribed, 17th century: 'Colle Agenen Societ Jesu Cat Inscript' (f. 2r).
An unidentified owner: inscribed, 'Alberti Cam... et amicorum' (f. 1r, partially effaced).
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.
- Information About Copies:
- Select digital coverage available for this manuscript; see the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts, https://bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/.
- Publications:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), no. 4169.
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. 47.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Tullius Cicero, Marcus, 106 BC-43 BC,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000139322910,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/78769600 - Places:
- Italy