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Harley MS 4922
- Record Id:
- 040-002050766
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002050766
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x0001b9
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 4922
- Title:
- Marcus Junianus Justinus, Epitome historiarum Pompeii Trogi
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-127r: Marcus Junianus Justinus (Justin), Epitome historiarum Pompeii Trogi.
Decoration:
Historiated initial with a man in profile combined with a full foliate border with birds, coats of arms, a lion and putti (f. 1r). 42 white vine initials in gold and colours (ff. 7r, 16r, 19v, 22r, 26v, 30r, 32v, 35r, 38r, 39r, 45v, 52v, 56v, 59v, 62r, 65r, 66v, 70v, 72r, 74r, 79v, 81v, 85v, 87r, 88v, 90r, 92r, 93v, 95v, 99r, 101v, 102r, 103v, 104r, 106r, 107v, 113r, 115v, 116r, 118v, 121v, 124v). Coloured initials in alternating gold and blue.
The Arms of Goffredo Caroli were painted by the Maestro dell' Antifonario D.R.1 di Busto Arsizio in the early 16th century (fl. c. 1508-18; see Bollati, 2004)
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002050766", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 4922: Marcus Junianus Justinus, Epitome historiarum Pompeii Trogi" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002050766 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 4922 : Marcus Junianus Justinus, Epitome historiarum Pompeii Trogi - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[4922]/040-002050766
- 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:
- 1450
- End Date:
- 1466
- Date Range:
- 1450-1466
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 290 x 200 mm (written space: 190 x 115 mm).
Foliation: ff. 1* + 127 + i (+ 1 unfoliated paper and 1 parchment flyleaves at the beginning + at the end).
Script: Humanistic.
Binding: BM/BL in-house. Edges tinted red.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Italy, N. (?Lombardy).
Provenance:
Francesco I Sforza (b. 1401, d. 1466), condottiere, married Bianca Maria Visconti in 1430, duke of Milan from 1450: original owner, his arms partly visible in the lower border (f. 1r).
Goffredo Caroli (d. 1516), French collector and diplomat in the service of Louis XII during the French campaigns in Italy, president of the Milan Senate in 1504, left Lombardy in 1512: his arms painted over those of Francesco I Sforza in the early 16th century (f. 1r) by the Maestro dell' Antifonario D.R.1 di Busto Arsizio (fl. c. 1508-18) (see Bollati, 2004).
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. 4922.
Élisabeth Pellegrin, La Bibliothèque des Visconti et des Sforza, ducs de Milan: Supplément avec 175 planches publié sous les auspices de la Société de Bibliophile pqar les soins de Tammaro De Marinis (Florence: L. S. Olschki; Paris: F. de Nobele,1969), pp. 54-55.
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. 303.
Albinia C. de la Mare, 'Script and Manuscripts under the Sforzas', Milano nell'età di Ludovico il Moro: atti del convegno internazionale 28 febbraio-4 marzo 1983, 2 vols ([Milan]: Comune di Milano; Archivio Storico Civico; Biblioteca Trivulziana, 1983), p. 400.
Dizionario biografico dei miniatori italiani: Secoli IX-XVI, ed. by Milvia Bollati (Milan: Sylvestre Bonnard, 2004), pp. 549-50 (p. 549).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Junianus Justinus, Marcus, Mid-2nd century-Late 4th century,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121244766,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/24616821 - Places:
- Lombardy, Italy