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Harley MS 5342
- Record Id:
- 040-002051188
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002051188
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x00035f
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 5342
- Title:
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Suetonius, De vita Caesarum
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains a copy of De vita Caesarum (On the Lives of the Caesars), a set of biographies of twelve successive Roman rulers from Julius Caesar to Domitian, written by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (b. c. 69, d. after 122).
Contents:
ff. 1r-231v: Suetonius, De vita Caesarum.
[[f. 1*v, 232r, and 233r-v are blank].
Decoration:
1 large foliate initial in colours and gold; some damaged border decoration, and a damaged coat of arms in the lower margin (f. 1r). 9 initials in gold on blue panels with floral spray extensions (ff. 34v, 133v, 155r, 181v, 190v, 196r, 204r, 214v, 219v). Numerous small initials in gold on red or blue panels. Rubrics in gold. Greek inscriptions in blue (ff. 32r, 45r, 63r, 77r, 77v).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002051188", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 5342: Suetonius, De vita Caesarum" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002051188 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 5342 : Suetonius, De vita Caesarum - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[5344]/040-002051188
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
Latin - Scripts:
- Greek
Latin - Start Date:
- 1475
- End Date:
- 1499
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 135 x 70 mm (text space: 110 x 55 mm).
Foliation: ff. 1* + 233 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 1 unfoliated parchment and 3 paper flyleaves at the end); f. 1* is a paper leaf with inscriptions.
Script: Humanistic.
Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house; marbled endpapers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Italy, S. (Naples)
Provenance:
Acquaviva (b. 1458, d. 1529), Andrea Matteo III of Naples, duke of Atri, writer: his arms (damaged): quarterly, 1 and 4, paly of Aragon, Hungary, Anjou of Naples and Jerusalem, 2 and 3, or, a lion rampant (f. 1r).
Bernardinus Scardeonius (b. 1478, d. 1574), canon of Padua; author of 'De Antiquitate Urbis Patavii' (Basel, 1560): his ownership inscription dated 1556, inscribed with his name (ff. 231v, 232v).
The Jesuit college in Agen (Lot-et-Garonne, France), maintained by the Jesuits from 1591 to 1762: inscribed, 17th century, 'Colleg. Agenn. societ. Jesu' (f. 1*r).
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:
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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. 5342.
Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 47, 298.
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 (p. 478).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Acquaviva, Andrea Matteo, Duke of Atri, 1456-1528
Scardeonius, Bernardinus, Canon of Padua, 1478-1574,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000072443119,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/54492649
Suetonius Tranquillus, Caius, c 69-after 122,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121029695,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/89599270 - Places:
- Naples, Italy