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Harley MS 5411
- Record Id:
- 040-002051257
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002051257
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x0003a4
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 5411
- Title:
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Plutarch, Vita Pauli Aemilii; Vita Pyrrhi; Vita Quinti Sertorii; Vita Bruti; De Alexandri Fortuna aut Virtute; De Romanorum Fortuna aut Virtute; Leonardo Bruni, Oratio Heliogabali ad Meretrices Romanas
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-24v: Plutarch, Vita Pauli Aemilii; the translation from Greek into Latin attributed to Leonardo Bruni [Aretino].
ff. 24v-51v: Plutarch, Vita Pyrrhi.
ff. 52r-69v: Plutarch, Vita Quinti Sertorii; the translation from Greek into Latin attributed to Leonardo Bruni [Aretino].
ff. 71r-104v: Plutarch, Vita Bruti.
ff. 105r-127v: Plutarch, De Alexandri Fortuna aut Virtute.
ff. 128r-140r: Plutarch, De Romanorum Fortuna aut Virtute.
ff. 140v-145v: Leonardo Bruni, Oratio Heliogabali ad Meretrices Romanas.
ff. 146r-150v: A letter beginning: ‘Tandem tuas accepi litteras, fili dilecte Ieronime’.
Decoration:
Blue and red initials with red pen-work decoration and rubrics throughout the manuscript.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002051257", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 5411: Plutarch, Vita Pauli Aemilii; Vita Pyrrhi; Vita Quinti Sertorii; Vita Bruti; De Alexandri Fortuna aut Virtute; De Romanorum Fortuna…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002051257 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 5411 : Plutarch, Vita Pauli Aemilii; Vita Pyrrhi; Vita Quinti Sertorii; Vita Bruti; De Alexandri Fortuna aut Virtute; De Romanorum… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[5413]/040-002051257
- 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:
- 1400
- End Date:
- 1499
- Date Range:
- 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 215 x 150 mm.
Foliation: ff. 150 (+ 8 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 7 at the end ); ff. 3 and f. [154] are marbled paper endleaves; 1 unfoliated paper pastedown on f. [155]recto (note paper of the ‘Department of Manuscripts’); 1 unfoliated paper stub between f. 143 and f. 144; each quire has been mounted onto a paper guard.
Script: Gothic.
Binding: British Museum in-house.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Italy.
Provenance:
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.
- 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), p. 266.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- Italy