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Harley MS 5221
- Record Id:
- 040-002051065
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002051065
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x0002e4
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 5221
- Title:
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Sextus Julius Frontinus, Strategemata
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains the Strategemata (Stratagems) by Sextus Julius Frontinus (b. c. 30, d. 104), a collection of examples of military stratagems from Greek and Roman history. The text is preceded by a Latin epitaph for a Roman woman called Claudia, composed between c. 135 and 120 BC.
Contents:
f. 1r: Epitaph to Claudia;
ff. 2r-105r: Sextus Julius Frontinus, Strategemata.
[ff. 1v and 105v are blank].
Decoration:
A partial border in colours and gold with foliate motifs, a large faceted initial in gold on a grey ground, and, in the lower margin, two putti flanking a coat of arms (f. 2r). 4 initials in gold on coloured grounds (ff. 4r, 28r, 66r, 84r). Small plain initials in blue or gold. Rubrics in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002051065", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 5221: Sextus Julius Frontinus, Strategemata" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002051065 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 5221 : Sextus Julius Frontinus, Strategemata - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[5221]/040-002051065
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- A parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1475
- End Date:
- 1499
- Date Range:
- Last quarter of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 200 x 140 mm (text space: 125 x 85 mm).
Foliation: ff. 105 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and end and +1 unfoliated parchment flyleaf after f. 105).
Script: Humanistic cursive.
Binding: British Museum in-house. Rebound in 1965.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Italy, S. (Naples)
Provenance:
Andrea Matteo Acquaviva (b. 1456, d. 1528), 8th duke of Atri: his arms (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.
- Information About Copies:
- Select digital coverage available for this manuscript; see the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts, https://bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/.
- Publications:
- A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), no. 5221.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Acquaviva, Andrea Matteo, Duke of Atri, 1456-1528
Julius Frontinus, Sextus, c 30-104,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121209098,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/12349897 - Places:
- Naples, Italy