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Harley MS 4806
- Record Id:
- 040-002050649
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002050649
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x000144
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 4806
- Title:
- Cicero, De inventione; Pseudo-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-56r: Cicero, De inventione.
ff. 57r-116r: Pseudo-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium.
Decoration:
Large decorated initial in gold and colours formed by 2 fish with foliate decoration including acanthus leaves, naturalistic flowers and birds extending into the margins on 2 sides (f. 1r). Large initial cut out (f. 57r). Numerous large and smaller red or blue initials with pen-flourishing in the other colour (the larger initials sometimes have reserved lines).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002050649", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 4806: Cicero, De inventione; Pseudo-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002050649 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 4806 : Cicero, De inventione; Pseudo-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[4805]/040-002050649
- 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:
- 1300
- End Date:
- 1324
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 14th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 305 x 210 (205 x 105-110) mm.
Foliation: ff. 1* + 116 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 4 at the end).
Contemporary foliation in red ink in the top right corner.
Strips of parchment have been cut out from many folios.
Script: Gothic.
Binding: British Library in-house. Rebound in 1990.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Florence, Italy.
Provenance:
Numerous marginal annotations in various medieval hands (especially ff. 57r-116r).
The Jesuit College in Agen (Lot-et-Garonne, France), maintained by the Jesuits from 1591 to 1762: inscribed, 17th century 'Colle. Agen. Societ. Jesu. Cat. Ins.' (f. 1r).
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://www.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), II (1808), no. 4806.
C. E. 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)