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Harley MS 4769

Record Id:

040-002050612

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002050612

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x00011f

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 4769

Title:

Sicco Polentone, Epitome in vitas scriptorum illustrium

Scope & Content:

Sicco Polentone, Epitome in vitas scriptorum illustrium:

ff. 1r-3r: Preface, rubric: 'SICCONIS POLENTONI EPITHOMA IN SCRIPTORUM ILLUSTRIUM LATINAE LINGUAE LIBER PRIMUS INCIPIT AD FILIUM POLIDORUM FELICITER IN VITAS ILLUSTRIUM VIRORUM PREHEMIUM LIBRI SEQUENTIS'; incipit: 'Peofitetur mi Polidore suavissime fili opus hoc ad te scriptum.'

ff. 3r-: rubric: 'SICCONIS POLENTONI LIBER VIRORUM ILLUSTREM LATINAE LINGUAE PRIMUS INCIPIT AD FILIUM POLIDORUM FELICITER'; incipit: 'Quan quod nobis polidore mi suavissime fili.'

Decoration:

Full acanthus border in colours and gold with a large white vine initial in colours and gold and the Fiato arms in the lower margin (f. 1). 18 white vine initials in colours and gold, some large, some mid-size (ff. 3, 18v, 35, 53, 72v, 80, 94, 109, 121, 136, 152v, 166, 178v, 195v, 210, 224, 238v, 256v). Rubrics in red.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002050612

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 4769 : Sicco Polentone, Epitome in vitas scriptorum illustrium

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[4768]/040-002050612

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Paper codex.

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1438

End Date:

1438

Date Range:

1438

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: 335 x 240 mm (text space: 185 x 105 mm).

Foliation: ff. 263 (+ 7 unfoliated paper flyleaves: 3 at the beginning and 4 at the end); catchwords, bifolium signatures and quire numbers in the upper margins.

Script: Humanistic. Possibly written by Nicolaus de Salvedia.

Binding: Post-1600. Parchment binding.

Custodial History:

Origin: Italy (Padua or Ferrara).

Provenance:

Written in 1438 for the notary Bartolomeo Fiatto of Padua (fl. 1423-1469): colophon, 'Hoc opus est scriptum pro Bartolomeo fyato notario sub annis domini 1438 die 21 Julij in vigilia sanctae Marie Magdalene. Deo gratias' (f. 263v); the Fiato arms of a blue dragon on a helm with the initials 'B' and 'FI' (f. 1r).

Joannes Rhodius (1587-1659), physician of Padua: included in the catalogue of his library as 'Sicconis Polentoni Epitoma in Vitas Scriptorum Illustrium Latine linguae, ad Filium Polydorum Lib. xviii', in G. F. Tomasini, Bibliothecae Patavinae Manuscriptae publicae et privatae (Udine, 1639), p. 140 (see Wright, Fontes 1972).

John Gibson (fl. 1720-1726), dealer; sold to Edward Harley on 12 February 1719/20 (Diary, 1966; Wright, Fontes, 1972).

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 ‘12 Februarij A.D.1719/20' (f. [i] recto and 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.

Administrative Context:

Italy (Padua or Ferrara).

Information About Copies:

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Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), II (1808), no. 4769.

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. 194 n. 5.

Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 158, 162, 285.

Cyril Ernest Wright, 'Manuscripts of Italian Provenance in the Harleian Collection in the British Museum: Their Sources, Associations and Channels of Acquisition', in Cultural Aspects of the Italian Renaissance. Essays in Honour of Paul Oskar Kristeller, ed. by C. H. Clough (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1976), pp. 462-84 (p. 463).

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. 812.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Bentinck, Margaret Cavendish, duchess of Portland, née Harley, collector of art and natural history specimens and patron of arts and sciences, 11 Feb 1715-17 Jul 1785,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000115857160,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/2356861
Fiatto, Bartolomeo, notary of Padua, fl 1423-1469
Gibson, John, book-dealer, fl 1720-1726
Harley, Edward, second earl of Oxford and Mortimer, book collector and patron of the arts, 2 Jun 1689-16 Jun 1741,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000108078249,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/160524259
Harley, Henrietta Cavendish, Countess of Oxford and Mortimer, née Holles, patron of architecture, 4 Feb 1694-9 Dec 1755,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000030125833,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/6045563
Harley, Robert, first Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, 5 Dec 1661-21 May 1724,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000083423906
Polentone, Sicco, of Padua, public notary, 1375/6-1447
Rhodius, Joannes, physician of Padua, 1587-1659