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Harley MS 5428
- Record Id:
- 040-002051274
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002051274
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x0003b5
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 5428
- Title:
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Cicero, Orationes; Philippicae
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains copies of works by the Roman statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero (b, 103, d. 43 BC): his Orationes (Speeches) and Philippicae (Philippics).
The text features accompanying marginalia in Italian hands that have been dated to the 16th and 17th centuries (Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts (1979), no. 835).
Contents:
ff. 1r-260v: Cicero, Orationes;
ff. 261r-322r: Cicero, Philippicae.
[ff. 138v and 322v are blank].
Decoration:
3 large initials in gold on coloured grounds (ff. 1r, 139r, 261r). 27 large initials in red, 1 at the beginning of each book (ff. 14r, 34r, 58v, 90r, 113r, 152r, 155v, 160v, 164v, 171v, 186v, 192r, 211v, 236r, 248v, 265r, 278v, 283v, 285v, 289v, 292v, 296r, 298, 302v, 306v, 311r, 317v). Rubrics and running headers in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002051274", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 5428: Cicero, Orationes; Philippicae" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002051274 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 5428 : Cicero, Orationes; Philippicae - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[5430]/040-002051274
- 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:
- 1469
- End Date:
- 1470
- Date Range:
- 1469-1470
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Paper.
Dimensions: 230 x 165 mm (text space: 160 x 100 mm).
Foliation: ff. 322 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 2 unfoliated ruled paper leaves after f. 138 + 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end).
Script: Semi-humanistic.
Binding: British Museum in-house. Rebound in 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:
Written by the scribe Johannes Ersford in 1469 and 1470: his colophon, 'Explicit per Johannes Ersford de Wissenfels de almania Alta 1469 die 2a decembris' (f. 138r), and 'Johannes Ersford de Wissenfels scripsit anno 1470' (f. 322r).
A college of Macerata, Italy (probably the Jesuit college founded in Macerata in 1560): its ownership inscription, 'Collegij Maceratansis' (f. 1r).
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. 5428.
Andrew G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c. 700-1600 in The Department of Manuscripts: The British Library, 2 vols (London: British Library, 1979), no. 835.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Ersford, Johannes, Scribe, fl. 1470
Tullius Cicero, Marcus, 106 BC-43 BC,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000139322910,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/78769600 - Places:
- Italy