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Harley MS 4387
- Record Id:
- 040-002050224
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002050224
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000807.0x0003e3
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 4387
- Title:
- Guido delle Colonne, Historia destructionis Troiae
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-174v: Guido delle Colonne ['de Columnis' or 'de Columna'], Historia destructionis Troiae (A History of the Destruction of Troy) or Historia troiana, in 35 books with a prologue and epilogue.
This Latin prose version, based on the Roman de Troie by Benoit de St Maure, was adapted by Guido delle Colonne, a judge and poet in the circle of Emperor Frederick II (b. 1194, d. 1250), initially for Mathaeus de Porta, archbishop of Salerno. But when da Porta died in 1272, only the first book was complete, and the remaining 34 books were completed 15 years later, between 15 September and 25 November, 1287, as stated in the epilogue (see Jung, La Légende (1996), p. 563).
f. 174v: Epitaphs on Hector and Achilles.
f. 175r: Epilogue..
The manuscript contains a later addition:
ff. [177]r-[177]v: A French survey of law offices (‘Greffes’) and jails (‘Jaules’) near Toulouse, added in the 16th century.
Decoration:
1 large champ initial (f. 1r). Large blue and red initials. Small initials highlighted in yellow.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002050224", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 4387: Guido delle Colonne, Historia destructionis Troiae" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002050224 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 4387 : Guido delle Colonne, Historia destructionis Troiae - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[4380]/040-002050224
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- French
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1470
- End Date:
- 1505
- Date Range:
- c 1475-c 1500
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper and parchment.
Dimensions: 290 x 210 mm.
Foliation: ff. 176 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves and 1 unfoliated parchment flyleaf at the beginning + at the end); 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves between f. 174 and f. 175 (ff. [174a]-[174d])
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: Post-1600.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
? France.
Provenance:
An unknown 16th-century owner of Besançon: inscribed f. 176r: 'Hunc librum ego paie emi pro quo solui unum florenum aureum’; followed by a name that has been erased, and ‘besantinus’.
Nicholas Joseph Foucault (b. 1643, d. 1721), Marquis de Magny, Intendant de la Généralité de Caen, 1689-1704: obtained by Harley at the Ballard sale, 20 February 1720/21 trough the agency of Thomas Bacon or Nathaniel Noel (Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 155); his heraldic arms gold-stamped on the upper and lower covers; his bookplate with arms and inscription (‘Ex Bibliotheca Nicolai Joseph Foucault Comitis Consistoriani’) pasted twice on the inside of the upper cover.
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), III (1808), pp. 139-40.
Harry Leigh Douglas Ward and John Alexander Herbert, Catalogue of Romances in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum, 3 vols (London: British Museum, 1883-1910), I (1883), p. 53.
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. 444.
Marc-René Jung, La Légende de Troie en France au moyen age (Basel & Tubingen: Francke Verlag, 1996), p. 563-65.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Guido delle Colonne [de Columnis or de Columna], judge and poet, fl 13th century,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000109290786 - Places:
- France