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Harley MS 5374

Record Id:

040-002051220

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002051220

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x00037f

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 5374

Title:

Sallust, Catilina and Jugurtha

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-41r: Sallust, Catilina.

ff. 41-127: Sallust, Jugurtha.

f. 128 is a parchment leaf.

Decoration:

Three-sided foliate border with a large white vine initial in colours and gold, epigraphic capitals in gold, and an effaced coat of arms in the lower margin (f. 1r). 1 large white vine initial in colours and gold with foliate extensions and gold besants (f. 41v). Plain initials in blue.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002051220

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 5374 : Sallust, Catilina and Jugurtha

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[5376]/040-002051220

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:

1450

End Date:

1474

Date Range:

3rd quarter of the 15th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 205 x 125 (125 x 65) mm.

Foliation: ff. 128 (+ 4 unfoliated paper and 2 parchment flyleaves at the beginning + 1 parchment and 4 paper flyleaves at the end + an unfoliated ruled leaf after f. 127).

ff. [v] and 129 are former pastedowns. Horizontal catchwords in the inner margin. Ruled in hardpoint.

Script: Humanistic, written by Nicolaus (Antonii) Riccius, according to the unpublished notes of Tilly de la Mare.

Binding: British Museum in-house; rebound in 1969; gauffered and gilt edges.

Custodial History:

Origin:

Probably Florence, Italy.

Provenance:

Written in Florence by Nicolaus (Antonii) Riccius c. 1465-70, according to unpublished notes of A. C. de la Mare at the Bodleian Library, Oxford.Philippus Fantonis: inscribed in the late 15th or early 16th century, 'Frater Philippus Fantonis florentinus' (effaced) (f. [vi] recto).Ser Bernardo Orlandini: inscribed, 'di ser bernardo horlandini' (f. 128v).

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.

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Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), no. 5374.

Albinia de la Mare, 'New Research on Humanistic Scribes in Florence', in Miniatura fiorentina del Rinascimento, 1440-1525: un primo censimento, ed. by Annarosa Garzelli, 2 vols, ([Florence]: Giunta regionale toscana, 1985), I, pp. 395-574 (p. 520).

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)