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Harley MS 5383
- Record Id:
- 040-002051229
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002051229
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x000388
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 5383
- Title:
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Paul the Deacon, Historia Langobardorum
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains Books 1-6 of the Historia Langobardorum (The History of the Lombards) by Paul the Deacon. The rest of the text survives in another manuscript, Florence, BR, 2795, to which this manuscript was originally joined.
Contents:
ff. 1r-32v: Paul the Deacon, Historia Langobardorum (Books 1-6.24).
Decoration:
Numerous small initials in red and blue with some pen-flourishing.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002051229", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 5383: Paul the Deacon, Historia Langobardorum" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002051229 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 5383 : Paul the Deacon, Historia Langobardorum - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[5385]/040-002051229
- 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:
- 1345
- End Date:
- 1355
- Date Range:
- c 1350
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 210 x 140 mm.
Foliation: ff. 32 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 2 at the end).
Script: Gothic.
Binding: Post-1600 Harleian binding.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Florence, Italy.
Provenance:
Giovanni Boccaccio (b. 1313, d. 1375), humanist: written by him (see The Cambridge Companion to Boccaccio, ed. Guyda Armstrong, Rhiannon Daniels, Stephen J. Milner (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015), p. xx).
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 forms one of the foundation collections of the British Library.
- Publications:
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The Cambridge Companion to Boccaccio, ed. Guyda Armstrong, Rhiannon Daniels, Stephen J. Milner (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015), p. xx.
A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), p. 264.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Paul the Deacon, Benedictine monk, scribe and historian, c 720-799,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000454758685,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/40174477