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Harley MS 4965

Record Id:

040-002050809

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002050809

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x0001e4

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 4965

Title:

Eusebius of Caesarea, De evangelica praeparatione, translated by George of Trebizond

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 2r-212v: Eusebius of Caesarea, De evangelica praeparatione, translated by George of Trebizond.

Decoration:

All'antica border in gold on a blue ground; roundels with heraldic devices and cameos; coat of arms (f. 5r). The miniature of the large initial 'E' has been excised (f. 5r). 14 faceted initials in gold and silver on coloured and metallic panels decorated with all'antica motifs in monochrome, including putti, satyrs, swags, and trophies (ff. 6r, 20v, 31r, 46r, 61r, 74r, 94r, 109v, 127v, 139v, 154r, 175r, 187v, 202r). Smaller initials in blue. Rubrics in red.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002050809

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 4965 : Eusebius of Caesarea, De evangelica praeparatione, translated by George of Trebizond

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[4965]/040-002050809

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:

1482

End Date:

1482

Date Range:

1482

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 370 x 255 mm (written space: 225 x 130 mm).

Foliation: ff. 213 (+ 4 unfoliated flyleaves at the beginning + an unfoliated parchment leaf after f. 212 + 2 paper flyleaves at the end).

Script: Humanistic.

Binding: BM/BL in-house.

Custodial History:

Origin: Italy, Central (Florence).

Provenance:

Copied in Florence on 21 August 1482 by the 'Omnium rerum' scribe: colophon reads: Anno salutis humanae M^oCCCC^oLXXX^oij^o hoc preclarum opus florentiae absolutum est: die autem mercurij & xxj^a mensis augusti: hora vero diei xvij^a. Laus honor imperium & gloria sit omnipotenti Ihesuchristo per infinita seculorum secula. Amen. Omnium rerum vicissitudo est' (f. 212v).

Ferdinand I of Aragon, king of Naples (d. 1494): the arms of Aragon, which may have been added by his son, Cardinal Giovanni (f. 5r).

Cardinal Giovanni of Aragon (b. 1456, d. 1485): inscribed, 'card(enale)', almost entirely effaced (f. [i verso]), (see de la Mare, 1984, p. 273; Bollati 2004, p. 648).

Rome S. Andrea [? della Valle, Rome, the mother church of the Theatines, founded 1524]: late-16th century book stamp: 'BIBLIOTECAE S. ANDREAE ROMAE' (ff. 2, 5).

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:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), no. 4965.

Giuseppe Mazzatinti, La biblioteca dei Re d'Aragona in Napoli (Rocca S. Casciano: Licinio Cappelli, 1897), no. 565.

Tammaro De Marinis, La biblioteca napoletana dei re d’Aragona, 4 vols. (Milan, 1947-1952) I, p. 74 and II, p. 69.

Otto Pächt, Jonathan J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford, 3 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press: 1966-73), II (1970): ~Italian School~, p. 45.

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. 150, 289.

Cyril Ernest Wright, 'Manuscripts of Italian Provenance in the Harleian Collection in the British Museum: Their Sources, Associations and Channels of Acquisition', in Cultural Aspects of the Italian Renaissance. Essays in Honour of Paul Oskar Kristeller, ed. by C. H. Clough (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1976), pp. 462-84 (p. 472).

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. 823.

Lilian Armstrong, Renaissance Miniature Painters and Classical Imagery: the Master of the Putti and his Venetian Workshop (London, Harvey Miller, 1981), no. 49, pls 110, 111, 118.

Albinia C. de la Mare, ‘The Florentine scribes of Cardinal Giovanni of Aragona’ in Il libro e il testo, atti del convegno internazionale, Urbino, 20-23 settembre 1982, ed. by C. Questa and R. Raffaelli (Urbino: Università delgi studi di Urbino, 1984), pp. 245-93 (p. 273, pl. 4).

John Monfasani, Collectanea Trapezuntiana: Texts, Documents and Bibliographies of George Trebizond. Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 25 (Binghampton, N.Y.: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 1984), pp. 24-27, 80-81, 124-127, 254-261 (p. 26).

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. 522).

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.

J. J. G. Alexander, 'Notes on Some Veneto-Paduan Illuminated Books of the Renaissance', Arte veneta, 23 (1969), 9-20 (p. 20, n. 32, pl. 12). Reprinted in Alexander, Studies in Italian Manuscript Illumination (London: Pindar Press, 2002), pp. 106-133 (pp. 121-22, 129).

Dizionario biografico dei miniatori italiani: Secoli IX-XVI, ed. by Milvia Bollati (Milan: Sylvestre Bonnard, 2004), p. 648.

The Cambridge Illuminations. Ten Centuries of Book Production in the Medieval West, ed. by Paul Binski and Stella Panayotova (London-Turnhout: Harvey Miller, 2005), p. 361 [exhibition catalogue].

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Eusebius of Caesarea, Bishop of Caesarea in Palestine, c 263-c 340,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000122758806,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/4929593

Places:

Florence, Firenze, Italy, Europe