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Harley MS 5248
- Record Id:
- 040-002051092
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002051092
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x0002ff
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 5248
- Title:
- Augustine, De musica
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-121v: Augustine, De musica (On Music).
ff. 122r-127v: Horace, poems.
ff. 127v-133v: Unidentified text on classical poetry. Possibly the hand of Leonardo Giustiniani of Venice, according to Albinia de la Mare (see Watson 1979).
ff. 3v and 133v are blank.
Decoration:
White vine initial in yellow on a blue ground at the beginning of each book (ff. 4r, 23r, 39v, 52v, 73v, 89r). Coloured initials in blue or red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002051092", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 5248: Augustine, De musica" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002051092 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 5248 : Augustine, De musica - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[5248]/040-002051092
- 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:
- 1423
- End Date:
- 1423
- Date Range:
- 1423
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 205 x 140 mm (text space: 135 x 80 mm).
Foliation: ff. 133 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves and 1 unfoliated parchment flyleaf at the beginning + 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end).
Script: Humanistic.
Binding: Post-1600. British Museum in-house. Rebound in 1966.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Venice.
Scribe:
ff. 1r-127v: Giovanni Aretino (ff. 121v, 127v).
Provenance:
Partly written by Giovanni Aretino: inscribed colophons 'IOANNES ARETINUS ABSOLVIT. VENETIIS MCCC.XXIII. SALVATORIS ANNO ID[US] MAIIS' (f. 121v) and 'IOANNES ARETINUS ABSOLVIT' (f. 127v).
The Jesuit College in Agen (Lot-et-Garonne, France), maintained by the Jesuits from 1591 to 1762: inscribed, 17th century, 'Colle. Agen Socie. Jesu Cat. Inscrip.' (f. 1r).
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. 5248.
Jonathan J. G. Alexander and Albinia C. de la Mare, The Italian Manuscripts in the Library of Major J. R. Abbey, (London: Faber and Faber, 1969), p. xxiv n. 4.
Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), p. 47.
Albinia C. de la Mare, 'Humanistic Script: The First Ten Years', in Das Verhaeltnis der Humanisten zum Buch, ed. by Fritz Kaft and Dieter Wuttke, (Boppard: Boldt, 1977), pp. 89-110, at 107 n. 72.
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. 827.
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, at 478.
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.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)