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Harley MS 4950
- Record Id:
- 040-002050794
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002050794
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x0001d5
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 4950
- Title:
- Marcus Fabius Quintilianus, Institutiones
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1v-217v: Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian), Institutiones.
Decoration:
Partial border and initial with foliate decoration in colours and gold, with two winged putti supporting a laurel medallion with arms in the bas-de-page (f. 2r). Initials in gold with foliate decoration on coloured grounds. Large initials in blue or red. Rubrics in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002050794", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 4950: Marcus Fabius Quintilianus, Institutiones" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002050794 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 4950 : Marcus Fabius Quintilianus, Institutiones - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[4950]/040-002050794
- 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:
- 1474
- Date Range:
- 3rd quarter of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 350 x 250 mm (written space: 225 x 135 mm).
Foliation: ff. 217 (+ 3 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves and one original parchment at the beginning and the end).
Script: Humanistic.
Binding: BM/BL in-house.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Italy, N. E. (Venice?).
Provenance:
Written by Franciscus of Milan: his colophon 'Franciscus de Mediolano scripsit' (f. 217v).
The Bragadin family of Venice: the arms, per fess azure and argent, a cross gules, possibly identifiable as theirs (f. 2r).
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: [n. pub.], 1808-12), III (1808) , no. 4740.
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), p. 183.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Quintilianus, Marcus Fabius, Roman educator and rhetorician, c 35-100,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121271967 - Places:
- Venice, Italy