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Harley MS 5262
- Record Id:
- 040-002051106
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002051106
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x00030d
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 5262
- Title:
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Henry of Settimello, Elegia de diversitate fortunae et philosophiae consolatione
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains a copy of Elegia de diversitate fortunae et philosophiae consolatione (Elegy on varying fortune and the consolation of philosophy), written by the Italian poet Henricus Florintinus (fl. late 12th century), commonly known as Henry of Septimello.
Contents:
f. 1*v: an added ownership inscription, in a 16th-century hand.
ff. 1r-23v: Henry of Septimello, Elegia de diversitate fortunae et philosophiae consolatione.
Decoration:
1 large faceted initial in blue on a dark red ground with acanthus motifs and grapes highlighted in gold (f. 1r). Smaller plain initials in red or blue. Paraphs in red or blue.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002051106", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 5262: Henry of Settimello, Elegia de diversitate fortunae et philosophiae consolatione" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002051106 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 5262 : Henry of Settimello, Elegia de diversitate fortunae et philosophiae consolatione - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[5262]/040-002051106
- 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:
- 1450
- End Date:
- 1499
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 240 x 150 mm (written space: 145 x 80/90 mm).
Foliation: ff. 1* + 23 (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning + 1 unfoliated parchment leaf after f. 1* + 1 ruled parchmnt leaf after f. 22 + 2 unfoliated parchment and 1 paper flyleaves at the end).
f. 1* is a paper leaf glued to a parchment leaf on the verso. f. [25] is a parchment leaf glued to a paper flyleaf.
Vertical catchwords.
Script: Humanistic.
Binding: Post-1600. Mottled brown leather with gold tooling.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
North-East Italy (possibly Padua).
Provenance:
Marino Sanuto (b. 1466, d. 1536), Venetian historian and diarist: inscribed 'Est no 2646, Marinus Sanutus, leonardi filij: 16th-century ownership inscription (f. 1*v).
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:
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Select digital coverage available for this manuscript; see the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts, https://bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/.
- 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. 5262.
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. 297.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Henry of Settimello, Italian poet, fl late 12th century
Sanuto, Marino, Venetian historian and diarist, 1466-1536 - Places:
- Padua, Italy