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Harley MS 4842
- Record Id:
- 040-002050685
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002050685
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x000168
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 4842
- Title:
- Quintus Curtius Rufus, Historia Alexandri Magni
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1-87: Quintus Curtius Rufus, Historia Alexandri Magni, imperfect, lacking part of Book 4, where 1 folio is ruled but nearly completely unwritten (f. 10). Written by Franciscus Caballus Montefortinas, 1464: his colophon 'Per me Fra[n]ciscum Caballum montefortinatem vigesima octava novembris Luce hic liber Rome feliciter est expletus. 1464' (f. 87r).
Decoration: 7 large white vine initials in gold and colours at the beginning of each book (ff. 1r, 9v, 26r, 46v, 57v, 70v, 80v). Wreath enclosing an unidentified coat of arms in the lower border (f. 1r).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002050685", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 4842: Quintus Curtius Rufus, Historia Alexandri Magni" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002050685 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 4842 : Quintus Curtius Rufus, Historia Alexandri Magni - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[4841]/040-002050685
- 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:
- 1464
- End Date:
- 1464
- Date Range:
- 1464
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 335 x 220 (240 x 140) mm.
Foliation: ff. 87 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end).
Collation: Mostly in quires of 10.
Catchwords, in the centre of the lower margin. Leaf signatures. Pricking holes.
Script: Humanistic cursive, written by Franciscus Caballus Montefortinas.
Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Rome, Italy.
Provenance:
Written by Franciscus Caballus Montefortinas, 1464: his colophon 'Per me Fra[n]ciscum Caballum montefortinatem vigesima octava novembris Luce hic liber Rome feliciter est expletus. 1464' (f. 87r).
Unidentified arms (f. 1r; also in Harley 2495). Added maniculum (f. 50r).
The Jesuit College in Agen (Lot-et-Garonne, France), maintained by the Jesuits from 1591 to 1762: inscribed, 17th century 'Colleg. Agen. Societat. Jesu. Catal. Inscript.' (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:
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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), III (1808), no. 4842.
J. J. G. Alexander and A. C. de la Mare, The Italian Manuscripts in the Library of Major J. R. Abbey (London: Faber and Faber, 1969), p. xxix, n. 6.
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. 42.
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. 478).
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. 813.
Paul Oskar Kristeller, Iter Italicum: Accedunt Alia Itinera: A Finding List of Uncatalogued or Incompletely Catalogued Humanistic Manuscripts of the Renaissance in Italian and other Libraries, 7 vols (London: Warburg Institute; Leiden: Brill, 1963-1997), IV (1989), p. 180.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)