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Harley MS 5427
- Record Id:
- 040-002051273
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002051273
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x0003b4
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 5427
- Title:
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Boccaccio, Elegia della Madonna Fiammeta
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains a copy of the Elegia della Madonna Fiammeta (Elegy of Lady Fiammetta), a work by the Italian poet Giovanni Boccaccio, probably written between 1343 and 1344. The text is written in the form of a first-person monologue and details the love of its protagonist the Lady Fiammetta for Panfilo, a Florentine merchant.
This copy of the text is imperfect at the beginning, missing the first folio containing the prologue and part of the first chapter.
Contents:
ff. 2r-72r: Boccacio, Elegia della Madonna Fiammeta (imperfect at the beginning).
[ff. 1v and 72v are blank].
Decoration:
Large gold initials on coloured grounds, one at the beginning of each paragraph. Rubrics in red. An offprint of a miniature (f. [73r]).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002051273", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 5427: Boccaccio, Elegia della Madonna Fiammeta" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002051273 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 5427 : Boccaccio, Elegia della Madonna Fiammeta - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[5429]/040-002051273
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Italian
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1475
- End Date:
- 1524
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 15th century-1st quarter of the 16th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 230 x 135 mm (text space: 160 x 80 mm).
Foliation: ff. 72 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 unfoliated ruled parchment leaves after f. 1 + 2 unfoliated parchment and 3 paper flyleaves at the end); f. 1 is a parchment flyleaf.
Script: Humanistic.
Binding: British Museum in-house. Rebound 19 April 1966. Red half-leather binding with the Harleian armorial bookplate, gold-stamped on the upper and lower covers.
- 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.
- Information About Copies:
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Select digital coverage available for this manuscript; see the 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), III (1808), no. 5427.
Giovanni Boccaccio: Catalogue of an Exhibition held in the Reference Division of the British Library 3 October to 31 December 1975 (London: British Museum Publications, 1975), no. 6 [exhibition catalogue].
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Boccaccio, Giovanni, poet and scholar, 1313-1375
- Places:
- Italy