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Harley MS 4902
- Record Id:
- 040-002050746
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002050746
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x0001a5
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 4902
- Title:
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St Augustine, De Civitate Dei
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains St Augustine's City of God. Written around 1470 by Giovanfrancesco Marzi in Florence, it was owned by the Hungarian humanists Janos Vitez and Petrus Garazda. According to unpublished notes by A. C. de la Mare, the decoration was the work of the artist known as the 'Master of the Vitez Livy'.
Contents:
ff. 1r-306v: St Augustine, De Civitate Dei.
Decoration:
Large historiated initial 'G'(loriosissimam) in colours and gold with Augustine as a bishop, with stigmata, combined with a three-sided white vine border including the coats of arms of Janos Vitez and Petrus Garazda, medallions with saints (probably the Fathers of the Church: three of them are bishops and the fourth one is probably Peter), a wolf and hen, winged putti, a dog, birds and flowers (f. 1r). White vine initial in colours and gold at the beginning of each subsequent book (ff. 13r, 24v, 36v, 48r, 61r, 69v, 81v, 94r, 101r, 116v, 128r, 139r, 150r, 163r, 179r, 196v, 210r, 233v, 248v, 269r, 286r).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002050746", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 4902: St Augustine, De Civitate Dei" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002050746 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 4902 : St Augustine, De Civitate Dei - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[4902]/040-002050746
- 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:
- 1465
- End Date:
- 1475
- Date Range:
- c 1470
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 390 x 270 mm (written space: 250 x 150 mm).
Foliation: ff. 306 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 1 unfoliated parchment leaf after f. 103 + 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end).
Script: Humanistic.
Binding: BM/BL in-house. Fore-edge inscribed with the name of the author and title.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Italy, Central (Florence).
Provenance:
Janos Vitez (b. c. 1405, d. 1472), Hungarian humanist, bishop of Nagyvárad, and archbishop of Esterzgom, and Petrus Garazda, Hungarian humanist: their arms (f. 1r).
Added date 'MCCXL' (f. 306v).
A few added annotations, 15th century (ff. 2v-3r, 4v, 6r-6v, 286v-287r).
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. 4902.
Albinia de la Mare, 'New Research on Humanistic Scribes in Florence', in Miniatura fiorentina del Rinascimento, 1440-1525: un primo censimento, ed. by Annarosa Garzelli, 2 vols, ([Florence]: Giunta regionale toscana, 1985), I, pp. 395-574 (p. 501) [with additional bibliography].
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Augustine of Hippo, Saint, Bishop of Hippo, 354-430,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121376443,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/66806872 - Places:
- Florence, Firenze, Italy, Europe