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Harley MS 4865
- Record Id:
- 040-002050708
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002050708
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x00017f
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 4865
- Title:
- Writings of Sallust and Cicero
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-28r: Cicero, Orationes in Catilinam (Catilinarian Orations), imperfect, wanting the first leaves.
ff. 28r-97r: Sallust, Bellum Iurgurthinum (The Jurgurthine War).
f. 98r: Cicero, De legibus (On the Laws), imperfect.
f. 98v: Table of contents.
ff. 100r-154: Cicero, De legibus.
ff. 155r-169r: Cicero, De fato (On Fate), imperfect.
ff. 169v-174r: Cicero, extract from his Latin translation of Plato’s Timaeus.
ff. 97v, 99r-v, 154v, 174v are blank.
f. 98r is a former pastedown.
Vertical catchwords.
Composite manuscript.
Decoration:
Three-sided border in colours and gold with rinceaux and floral motifs, with a large initial in blue, red, and gold 'F' at the beginning of Jugurtha (f. 28r). 1 large white-vine initial in colours and gold 'L'(ucas) and, in the lower margin, an angel bearing a heraldic shield in gold, bisected by a blue band (the three gold stars on the blue band have been effaced) (f. 100r). 4 large white vine initials in colours and gold (ff. 118r, 140r, 155r, 169v). Large initials in blue with red pen-flourishing or in red with blue pen-flourishing. Paraphs in red or blue. Rubrics in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002050708", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 4865: Writings of Sallust and Cicero" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002050708 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 4865 : Writings of Sallust and Cicero - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[4864]/040-002050708
- 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:
- 1430
- End Date:
- 1470
- Date Range:
- Middle of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Paper (ff. 1-97) and parchment (ff. 100-174).
Dimensions: 270 x 185 mm (text space: 150 x 95 mm) (ff. 1-97); 270 x 170 mm (text space: 175 x 100 mm) (ff. 100-174).
Foliation: ff. 174 (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning + 1 unfoliated parchment and 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the end, and 1 blank ruled leaf between ff. 97 and 98 and 3 unfoliated blank leaves between ff. 154 and 155).
Script: Semi-humanistic.
Binding: Post-1600. Mottled brown leather with gold tooling.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
France (ff. 1-97); Italy, N. (ff. 100-174).
Provenance:
ff. 100-174:
The Martinozzi family of Siena: possibly its arms, which have been partially effaced (f. 100).
A monastic library founded or endowed by the Guicciardini (see Wright 1972).
John Gibson (fl. 1720-1726), dealer: sold to Edward Harley on 13 February 1723/4 (see Wright 1972).
All:
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), no. 4865.
The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by Cyril Ernest Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), II: 1723-1726, p. 216, n. 23.
Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 162, 174.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)