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Harley MS 5296
- Record Id:
- 040-002051142
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002051142
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x000331
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 5296
- Title:
- Publius Papinius Statius, Thebais
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1-100: Publius Papinius Statius, Thebais. It seems that the text was left unfinished in the 12th century (interrupted in the middle of Book 11) and only completed in the late 15th century in a humanistic hand trying to imitate the earlier script (ff. 86v-100).
Numerous added manicula and copious annotations in various medieval hands.
Decoration: Large plain initials in red ink (ff. 8r, 15v), with striped pattern (possibly added) in brown ink (ff. 32r, 73r, 83r), with reserved line (ff. 23r, 48v). Some initials not painted in (f. 1)r. Large initials in brown ink (ff. 58v, 63v). Smaller plain initial in red ink (f. 38r, probably added). Paragraph marks and capitals sometimes decorated with red ink. The wrong letter has been painted for several initials (see for instance ff. 73r or 83r).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002051142", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 5296: Publius Papinius Statius, Thebais" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002051142 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 5296 : Publius Papinius Statius, Thebais - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[5298]/040-002051142
- 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:
- 1125
- End Date:
- 1174
- Date Range:
- 2nd-3rd quarter of the 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 250 x 115 (205-220 x 70) mm.
Foliation: ff. 100 (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning and at the end).
Script: Protogothic.
Binding: Post-1600. Parchment on boards. Edges tinted black.
Pricking holes. Quire marks.
The last quire is made of finer parchment (ff. 87-100).Watermark (f. [101]).
- Custodial History:
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Origin: France
Provenance:
The end of the text added in a different hand imitating the earlier part of the text (ff. 86v-100): late 15th century, Italy.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: 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. 5296.
David Anderson, 'Boccaccio Glosses on Statius', Studi sul Boccaccio, 22 (1994), 3-134 (p. 125).
Harald Anderson, The Manuscripts of Statius, 3 vols (revised edition: Arlington, Virginia, 2009), I, pp. 210-11, no. 316.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)