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Harley MS 5198

Record Id:

040-002051042

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002051042

MDARK:

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LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 5198

Title:

Persius, Satires; Claudian, De raptu Proserpinae; Ovid, De Philomena; Latin epigrams; Virgil, Moretum; Maffeo Vegio, Astyanax; Ovid, Epistula Sapphus ad Phaonem; Homer, Batrachomyomachia; Donatus, De barbarisimo; Agostino Dati, Elegantiolae

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-15r: Persius, Satires.

ff. 15r-39r: Claudian, De raptu Proserpinae.

ff. 39r-40v: Ovid (here attributed), De Philomena.

ff. 40v-42r: Latin epigrams, including (among others): 'Maro ad augustum Caesarem'; 'Supplicat Cornelius Gallus ad Augustum ne comburatur Aeneis'; 'Supplicat idem valerius martialis vel ut dicitur Sulpitius Kartaginensis'; and 'Epitaphium Hylae Tusci'.

ff. 42v-44v: Virgil (here attributed), Moretum.

ff. 44v-51r: Maffeo Vegio (b. 1407, d. 1458), Astyanax (1430).

ff. 51r-55v: Ovid, Epistula Sapphus ad Phaonem.

ff. 55v-62r: Homer (here not attributed), Batrachomyomachia; translated from Greek into Latin by Carolus Marsuppinus Aretinus (d. 1453).

ff. 62v-70v: Donatus, De barbarisimo.

ff. 71r-105r: Agostino Dati [Augustinus Datus] (b. 1420, d. 1478), Elegantiolae [supplied title].

Decoration:

Large plain initials in blue and red.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002051042

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 5198 : Persius, Satires; Claudian, De raptu Proserpinae; Ovid, De Philomena; Latin epigrams; Virgil, Moretum; Maffeo Vegio, Astyanax;…

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[5198]/040-002051042

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:

1505

Date Range:

1430-c 1500

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: 195 x 145 mm (text space: 140 x 90-95 mm).

Foliation: ff. 105 (+ 7 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end); 1 unfoliated paper strip after f. 49.

Collation: Indicated by vertical catchwords; each quire has been mounted separately onto a paper guard.

Script: Italian cursive.

Binding: British Museum in-house; red half leather with the Harleian arms gold stamped on the outside covers; re-bound on 28 September 1966.

Custodial History:

Origin:

Italy.

Provenance:

'Stephanus de Bertonlinis', 15th century: his name inscribed on f. 105v: 'Stephani de Bertolinis et amicorum eius'.

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), p. 251.

J. B. Hall, Claudian De Raptu Proserpinae, Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries, 11 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1969), p. 16 [as 'L7'].

Heinrich Dörrie, P. Ovidius Naso: Der Brief der Sappho an Phaon: Mit literarischem und kritischem Kommentar im Rahmen einer motivgeschichtlichen Studie, Zetemata: Monographien zur klassischen Altertumswissenschaft, 58 (Munich: Beck, 1975), p. 66 (no. 129).

Geoffrey L. Bursill-Hall, A Census of Medieval Latin Grammatical Manuscripts, Grammatica Speculativa, 4 (Stuttgart: Fromman-Holzboog, 1981), p. 118.

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. 184.

Emil J. Polak, Medieval & Renaissance Letter Treatises & Form Letters: A Census of Manuscripts Found in Part of Western Europe, Japan, & the United States of America, Davis Medieval Texts and Studies, 9 (Leiden: Brill, 1994), pp. 340-41.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Places:

Italy