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Harley MS 4802
- Record Id:
- 040-002050645
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002050645
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x000140
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 4802
- Title:
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Giles of Rome, De regimine principum, libri 3
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-144r: Giles of Rome, De regimine principum, libri 3; with a list of chapters (ff. 141r-144r).
The manuscript contains a later addition:
f. 1*verso: A theological note, beginning: ‘In [...] tehologicis ut in fide spe et ut in fide spe et caritate extrema sunt’; added in the (?) late 14th century.
Decoration:
10 large initials in colours and gold with bar extensions (ff. 1r, 11r, 36v, 44v, 51r, 66v, 80r, 91v, 102v, 125v). Red initials with blue pen-flourishing and blue initials with red pen-flourishing. Smaller initials in red or blue. Rubrics in red. Running headers. Paraphs in red or blue. Capitals marked in yellow.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002050645", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 4802: Giles of Rome, De regimine principum, libri 3" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002050645 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 4802 : Giles of Rome, De regimine principum, libri 3 - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[4801]/040-002050645
- 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:
- 1375
- End Date:
- 1399
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 14th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 295 x 200 mm (text space: 190 x 130 mm, in 2 columns).
Foliation: ff. 1* + 145 (+ 1 unfoliated paper and 2 parchment flyleaves at the beginning + 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the end); 1 unfoliated parchment strip (with a 14th-century inscription: ‘Liber de Regimine [...]’) ff. 1* and 145 are parchment leaves that originally served as flyleaves.
Collation: Indicated by horizontal catchwords.
Script: Gothic.
Binding: Post-1600. Tan binding with gold tooling.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
France (? North-East France).
Provenance:
Unknown owners: erased inscriptions, perhaps providing evidence of ownership, on ff. 1*r, 1*v and 144v (2 inscriptions below those of Johannes Porceleti and Johannes (?) Payer (see below).
Johannes Porceleti (fl. late 14th century), canon of Langres, Haute-Marne, and official (Treasurer) of the Archdiocese of Besançon, North-East France: his name inscribed on f. 144v: ‘Joh[ann]es Porceleti cano[n]ici’ (previously untranscribed, but legible with UV light; not in Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)).
‘Johannes (?) Payer’, 15th century: his name in an inscription (partly crossed out) on f. 144v (not in Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)).
? An (unidentified) archbishop of the Archdiocese of Acerenza and Matera, 17th century: suggested by an inscription on f. 145v: 'Ex ha[e]red[ite] bo[nae] me[moriae] Joan[i] Ant[onii] Archiep[iscopi] Acherontin[i] et Materanen[si]'.
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), p. 209.
Charles Fairbank Briggs, Giles of Rome's De Regimine Principium: Reading and Writing Politics at Court and University, c. 1275-c. 1525 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), p. 172.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Giles of Rome, philosopher, theologian and Archbishop of Bourges, c 1243-1316,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000115789831 - Places:
- France
Northeastern France