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Harley MS 5412
- Record Id:
- 040-002051258
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002051258
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x0003a5
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 5412
- Title:
- Sallust, Catiline
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1-56: Sallust, Catiline. This is a 12th-century copy, with the beginning (f. 1-1v) and end (ff. 49r-56v) supplied by the 15th-century scribe of Harley MS 2648, which is a copy of Juvenal's Satires written in 1410, according to de la Mare, 'Humanistic' (1977).There are also distinctive annotations in a 15th-century hand chiefly in the original part of the manuscript, but some in the new part. Interlinear and marginal notes.
f. 1* is a paper leaf pasted onto a former parchment pastedown with a note in a humanistic hand, beginning 'Romulus...' .
Decoration: 1 large initial in red and blue (f. 1r). Rubrics in red. Capitals marked in yellow.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002051258", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 5412: Sallust, Catiline" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002051258 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 5412 : Sallust, Catiline - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[5414]/040-002051258
- 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:
- 1100
- End Date:
- 1199
- Date Range:
- 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 220 x 135 (165 x 95) mm.
Foliation: ff. 56 (+ 1 unfoliated paper and 1 parchment flyleaf at the beginning and at the end).
Script: Humanistic.
Binding: Post-1600. Mottled brown leather with gold tooling.
Ruled in hardpoint.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Italy.
Provenance:
A note in a humanistic hand, beginning 'Romulus...' (f. 1*).
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.
- Information About Copies:
- Select digital coverage: Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts, https://bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/.
- Publications:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), II (1808), no. 5412.
A. C. de la Mare, 'Humanistic Script: The First Ten Years', in Das Verhältnis der Humanisten zum Buch, ed. by Fritz Krafft and Dieter Wuttke, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Kommission für Humanismusforschung, 4 (Boppard: Boldt, 1977), pp. 89-110 (p. 104).
B. Munk Olsen, L’Étude des auteurs classiques latins aux XIe et XIIe siècles, 3 vols (Paris: Centre national de la recherche scientifique, 1982-1989), I (1982), pp. 211-13 no. C. 245; II (1985), p. 330, C62.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)