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Harley MS 4862

Record Id:

040-002050705

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002050705

MDARK:

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LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 4862

Title:

Quintus Horatius Flaccus, Opera

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-122r: Quintus Horatius Flaccus, Opera (Works).

[f. 122v is blank].

Decoration:

1 white vine border bounded by gold lines, on a coloured ground, including an author portrait of Horace in a roundel, 2 putti, and an unidentified coat of arms, with a large initial in gold, and rubrics in gold and violet (f. 1r). 9 large initials in gold on coloured panels at the beginning of each book (ff. 15r, 24r, 40r, 49r, 60v, 76r, 92v, 107v, 115r). Numerous initials in alternating red and blue. Rubrics in red.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002050705

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 4862 : Quintus Horatius Flaccus, Opera

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[4861]/040-002050705

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:

1461

End Date:

1461

Date Range:

1461

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment.

Dimensions: 260 x 155 mm (text space: 170 x 90 mm).

Foliation: ff. 122 (+ 2 unfoliated paper and 2 unfoliated parchment flyleaves at the beginning + 1 unfoliated parchment and 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end)

Script: Humanistic.

Binding: British Museum / British Library in-house.

Custodial History:

Origin: Italy, N. E. (Ferrara)

Provenance:

Written by Giovanni Grasso (also known as Joannis Carpensis), in Ferrara in 1461: inscribed: 'Quinti Horatii Flacci, Venusini, Odarum, Sermonum, Epistolarum, Poetrieque carminum volumina feliciter finiunt die sextodecimo Novembris anno domini millesimo quadringentesimo sexagesimo primo Ferrarie per me Ioannem carpensem... Soperiantis memor sis mi Ioannes' (f. 122r) (see Bradley, Dictionary of miniaturists (1887), I, p. 194; Warner, Descriptive catalogue (1920), I, p. 179).

The initials 'I.V.' are inscribed on either side of unidentified arms (f. 1r).

Inscription effaced (f. 122r).

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://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. 4862.

John W. Bradley, A Dictionary of Miniaturists, Illuminators, Calligraphers, and Copyists, with references to their works, and notices of their patrons, from the establishment of Christianity to the Eighteenth Century, 2 vols (London: Bernard Quaritch, 1887-1889), I, p. 194.

George Warner, Descriptive Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts in the Library of C. W. Dyson Perrins D.C.L. F.S.A., 2 vols (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1920), I, p. 173.

A. de Hevesy, La bibliothèque du roi Matthias Corvin (Paris: Société Française de Reproductions de Manuscrits à Peintures, 1923), p. 87.

K. Csapodi-Gárdonyi, 'Les scripteurs de la bibliothèque du roi Mathias', Scriptorium: Revue internationale des études relatives aux manuscrits 17 (1963), 25-49 (p. 39).

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. 334.

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. 816.

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), pp. 180-81.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Horatius Flaccus, Quintus, also known as Horace, 65 BC-8 BC,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121452178,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/100227522

Places:

Ferrara, Italy