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Harley MS 5255

Record Id:

040-002051099

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002051099

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x000306

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 5255

Title:

Collection of orations, Italian sonnets, prophecies and letters

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-22r: Responsio domini pape Pii oratoribus regis Franciae anno domini 1462.

f. 22v: Epitaphium Senecae.

f. 22v: Italian verses.

ff. 23r-24r: Hippolyte Sfortie, Oratio Dominae Ducissae Calabriae filiae Illustrisimi Francisci Sfortia Ducis Mediolani recitata in Conspectu sancti domini papae Pii et Reverendum Cardinalium Mantue (dated June 1459).

ff. 23v-24r: Pope Pius II, Responsum.

f. 24v: Two Italian sonnets.

ff. 25r-31r: Oratio Tullij pro Marcho Marcello.

ff. 31v-35v: Inter Clericulum et Juvenculam philocaptos formosissimosqs Epistola incipit Elegantissima; with two Latin verses at the end.

ff. 36r-36v: Three Italian sonnets.

ff. 37r-40r: Revelacio inclite Johannae Illustrissimae Hierusalem et Siciliae Reginae (also known as Profitia revelata Regina Johanne per Magum nigromentem).

f. 40v: Prophetia Neapolis.

f. 40v: Prophecia cuiusdam Judei.

ff. 41r-42r: Epistola Bernardi ad volentes scire regulam vivendi.

ff. 43r-45r: Pseudo-Aristotle, prologue to the Secretum Secretorum, here entitled Aristoteles in Secretis Secretorum ad Alexandrum.

ff. 45v-46v: Anonymous collection of excerpts entitled De quatuor temporibus anni.

ff. 47r-55v: A collection of excerpts in Latin and Italian on virtues and vices.

ff. 56r-57r: Littera missa per fratrem Johannem de Sancto Miniate ad Angelo de Corbinellis.

ff. 57v-60r: Sex Colucius Salutatus Florentinorum Cancellarius ad venerabilem Johannem de Sancto Miniati, dated 1406 and signed with ‘Jacobus’.

f. 60v: Two Italian sonnets.

ff. 61v-64r: Letters and historical excerpts from the Suda, translated from Greek into Latin.

The manuscript contains a few later additions:

f. 36r: Latin verses, added in the 15th century.

f. 64v: An Italian poem, ‘De la natura de la cicale’, added in the 15th century.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002051099

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 5255 : Collection of orations, Italian sonnets, prophecies and letters

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[5255]/040-002051099

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Italian
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1462

End Date:

1472

Date Range:

c 1467

Era:

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User Conditions:

Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: 200 x 135 mm.

Foliation: ff. i + 62 (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the begining + at the end); f. i s a paper leaf.

Script: Humanistic cursive.

Binding: Post-1600. British Museum in-house.

Custodial History:

Origin:

Italy.

Provenance:

An Italian scribe, wrote ff. 1r-22r in 1467: a colophon on f. 22r: ‘Expleta per me notarium Nicolaum de Carpanis de Neapolitani tunc Regiæ Athinæ Capitaneum : Die prima octobris 1467’; The rest of the manuscript is written in the same hand, including Italian verses.

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, inscribed as usual by their librarian.

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), pp. 255-56.

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), I: The Text, p. 145 (no. 828); II: The Plates, pl. 703.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Places:

Italy