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Harley MS 5300

Record Id:

040-002051146

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002051146

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x000335

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 5300

Title:

Juvenal, Satirae; Aulus Persius Flaccus, Satirae

Scope & Content:

This manuscript contains two collections of Satirae (Satires) by the Roman poets Juvenal (fl. late 1st century-early 2nd century) and Aulus Persius Flaccus (b. 34, d. 62).

The manuscript was perhaps made at the same workshop and by the same scribe as Harley MS 4856, which contains a copy of Virgil's collected works.

Contents:

ff. 1r-69r: Juvenal, Satirae.

ff. 69v-81r: Aulus Persius Flaccus, Satirae.

ff. 81v-82r are ruled parchment leaves.

Decoration:

1 large initial in purple on a gold ground, ornamented with blue violets, with rinceaux decoration in colours and gold in the margin (f. 1r). 1 large initial in blue on a gold ground, ornamented with pink roses (f. 69v). Numerous plain red or blue initials. Capitals marked in yellow. Ruled in red and brown ink.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002051146

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 5300 : Juvenal, Satirae; Aulus Persius Flaccus, Satirae

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[5302]/040-002051146

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:

1425

End Date:

1474

Date Range:

2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century

Era:

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User Conditions:

Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment.

Dimensions: 250 x 140 mm (written space: 185 x 90/95 mm).

Foliation: ff. i + 82 (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning + 1 unfoliated parchment and 1 paper flyleaf at the end).

f. i is a parchment leaf.

Formerly paginated; page numbers in brown ink are still visible.

Horizontal catchwords.

Script: Semi-humanistic.

Binding: British Museum in-house. Rebound 29 April 1967. Red half-leather binding, with the Harleian armorial bookplate gold-stamped on the upper and lower covers.

Custodial History:

Origin:

Northern France or Southern Netherlands.

Provenance:

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. 5300.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Junius Juvenalis, Decimus, Late 1st century-Early 2nd century,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000399077077,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/83985148
Persius Flaccus, Aulus, 34-62,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121451431,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/100198157

Places:

Northern France
Southern Netherlands