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Harley MS 5362
- Record Id:
- 040-002051208
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002051208
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x000373
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 5362
- Title:
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Lections from Martial's Epigrammata
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-20v: Lections from Martial's Epigrammata (Epigrams).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002051208", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 5362: Lections from Martial's Epigrammata" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002051208 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 5362 : Lections from Martial's Epigrammata - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[5364]/040-002051208
- 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:
- 1583
- End Date:
- 1583
- Date Range:
- 1583
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 150 x 95 mm.
Foliation: ff. 20; numerous unfoliated blank paper leaves after f. 20.
Script: Cursive.
Binding: Post-1600. White calf leather with holes in the upper and lower covers for laces.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
? Germany.
Provenance:
Written in 1583: according to an inscription on the inside cover: 'Contuli cum scripto libro Romae anno 1468 sed ex optimo exemplari membranaceo ut apparet Wirtzeburgi KL Maijs 1583'.
? Johann Weidner (d. 1625): the above inscription on the inside cover is followed by the following note: 'M.S. fuit mihi donatus a Weidnero' (not in Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)).
Johann Georg Graevius (b. 1632, d. 1703), owned the manuscript: appears in his 1703 catalogue as ‘G. 1-4’ (see Clark, 'The Library of J. G. Graevius' (1891), p. 371 [erroneously referred to as Harley MS 5364]; Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 169).
Giovanni Giacomo Zamboni (d. 1753), Resident in London for the Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (c. 1723-1753): perhaps his pressmark '107' inscribed in brown ink on the upper cover; acquired from him by Harley on 20 October 1725 (see Diary, ed. by Wright and Wright (1966), II, p. 385 n. 6; Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 367)
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 ‘20 die Octobris, A. D. 1725' (inside cover).
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.
- Publications:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III, p. 262.
The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by Cyril Ernest Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), II: 1723-1726, p. 385 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. 162, 367.
Albert C. Clark, 'The Library of J. G. Graevius', The Classical Review, 5:8 (1891), 365-72 (p. 371) [erroneously referred to as Harley MS 5364].
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Martialis, Marcus Valerius, c 0038-c 0104,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000123584924 - Places:
- Germany