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Harley MS 4859
- Record Id:
- 040-002050702
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002050702
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x000179
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 4859
- Title:
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Aulus Gellius, Noctes atticae, with an index of Latin words and phrases
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-201r: Aulus Gellius, Noctes atticae, written in Latin prose, with numerous marginal notes; beginning with a list of contents (f. 1r-v); the text beginning, 'Plutarcus in libro quem de Herculis...'
ff. 201v-205r: Index of Latin words, arranged alphabetically, followed by an index of key phrases, with accompanying folio references.
ff. 205v-206v: Set of definitions and etymologies of Latin words, beginning, 'Legio sex milia sexcentum...'
Decoration:
1 historiated initial in colours and gold (f. 1r, damaged).
19 large initials in colours and gold (ff. 1v, 14v, 29r, 39v, 48r, 58r, 65v, 78v, 88r, 100r, 108r, 118v, 133v, 143r, 153v, 163r, 177r, 184v, 192v). The initials on ff. 153v and 163r are unfinished and the underdrawings visible.
Numerous smaller initials in blue with red pen-flourishing or red with purple pen-flourishing, usually alternating.
Paraphs in red or blue.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002050702", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 4859: Aulus Gellius, Noctes atticae, with an index of Latin words and phrases" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002050702 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 4859 : Aulus Gellius, Noctes atticae, with an index of Latin words and phrases - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[4858]/040-002050702
- 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:
- 1424
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 14th century-1st quarter of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 255 x 175 mm (text space: 165 x 110 mm).
Foliation: ff. 206 (+ 6 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 12 at the end).
Script: Gothic.
Binding: Post-1600. Mottled brown leather with gold tooling.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Northeastern Italy (perhaps Padua or Bologna).
Provenance:
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:
- A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), no. 4859.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Gellius, Aulus, author and grammarian, c 125-after 180
- Places:
- Northeastern Italy