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Harley MS 5345

Record Id:

040-002051191

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002051191

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x000362

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 5345

Title:

Agostino Dati, Eligantiae

Scope & Content:

A humanist copy of a Renaissance rhetorical manual by Agostino Dati (1420–78), philosopher, theologian, historian, linguist and teacher in Siena.

Contents:

ff. 1* and 3* are parchment flyleaves with various inscriptions.

ff. 1r-7r: Letter to a certain Franciscus congratulating him on marrying the daughter of a certain Antonius, begins 'Heri pervesperi Francisce carissime ad forum deambulanti mihi ... datus est obviam Antonius Thuraminus….'

ff. 7r-72v: Agostino Dati, Eligantiae, begins 'Dedimus (sic) iam dadum...'

ff. 73r-85v: Index.

Decoration:

2 large initials in blue with red penwork decoration (ff. 1r, 7r). Paraphs in blue. Capitals marked in yellow. Marginal notes in red.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002051191

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 5345 : Agostino Dati, Eligantiae

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[5347]/040-002051191

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 or 3rd quarter of the 15th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 140 x 90 (85 x 55) mm.

Foliation: ff. 1* + 2* + 3* + 88 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end).

Script: Humanistic.

Binding: British Museum in-house; rebound in 1970.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

Giles Grene: 16th-century ownership inscription: ' liber egidii grene' (f. 2*r).

John Slade: 16th-century ownership inscription: 'Joannes Sladus me posidet' (f. 1*v).

Robert Burscough (b. 1650/51, d.1709), prebendary of Exeter in 1701, archdeacon of Barnstaple in 1703, rector of Cheriton Bishop in 1705: sold by his widow on 17 May 1715 to Robert Harley, along with other manuscripts (see Wright, Fontes (1972), 87-88; Wright, Diary (1966)).

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, Humfrey Wanley ‘17 Maij 1715’ (f. 1r).

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://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=4858&CollID=8&NStart=5345.

Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), no. 5345.

The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by Cyril Ernest Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), I: 1715-1723, p. 11 n. 6.

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. 88, 306, 171.

Paul Oskar Kristeller, Iter Italicum: Accedunt Alia Itinera: A Finding List of Uncatalogued or Incompletely Catalogued Humanistic Manuscripts of the Renaissance in Italian and other Libraries 7 vols (London: Warburg Institute; Leiden: Brill, 1963-1997), IV (1989), p. 186.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Burscough, Robert, Church of England clergyman, 1650/51-1709
Dati, Agostino, orator, historian and philosopher, 1420-1478,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000109010684