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Harley MS 5433
- Record Id:
- 040-002051279
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002051279
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x0003ba
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 5433
- Title:
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Macrobius, Commentary on Cicero's De somno Scipionis
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1-70: Macrobius, Commentary on Cicero's De somno Scipionis, written in 1446: the scribe or a near contemporary hand added 'D. M. N. B. N.', 'Qui scripsit vivat letus semper / Propitius esto Mihi misero p. Nove[m]bris / Deo Laus. Explicit comentum macrobij die xxviii A[nno d[omini] 1446.' (f. 70r).
ff. 70v-71v: shorter texts.
f. 72v: Added text and notes, ?16th century, a palimpsest.
ff. 1* verso, 70, 71, 73: Added notes in Spanish, ?16th century.
Decoration:
Diagrams in brown ink in the main text (ff. 39v, 50v, 53v, 70r) and in the margins (ff. 12v, 28v, 37v, 42v, 43r, 52v). 1 large initial in blue with a reserved design and red pen-flourishing (f. 1r). Initials wanting (ff. 6v, 43v, 46v). Pointing hands, human faces and animal heads alongside the text, apparently in the hand of scribe or in a near contemporary hand.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002051279", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 5433: Macrobius, Commentary on Cicero's De somno Scipionis" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002051279 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 5433 : Macrobius, Commentary on Cicero's De somno Scipionis - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[5435]/040-002051279
- 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:
- 1446
- End Date:
- 1446
- Date Range:
- 1446
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 230 x 150 (165 x 100) mm.
Foliation: ff. 1* + 73 (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning and 1 at the end; + 1 unfoliated parchment leaf between ff. 71-72.
ff. 1* and 73 are each conjoined with a further paper flyleaf; ff. 1*, 1, [71a], 72 and 73 are medieval parchment flyleaves.
Script: Semi-humanistic.
Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house. Gold-tooled sprinkled brown leather over wooden boards.
Leaf signatures; catchwords.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Northern Italy.
Provenance:
Written in 1446: the scribe or a near contemporary hand added 'D. M. N. B. N.', 'Qui scripsit vivat letus semper / Propitius esto Mihi misero p. Nove[m]bris / Deo Laus. Explicit comentum macrobij die xxviii A[nno d[omini] 1446.' (f. 70r). The scribe added smaller texts (ff. 70v-71v).
Added text and notes, ?16th century (f. 72v).
Added notes in Spanish, ?16th century (ff. 1* verso, 70, 71, 73).
The Jesuit College, Agen (Lot-et-Garonne, France): inscribed, 17th century 'Coll. Agen Soc. Jesu catal. Insc.' (f. 2r).
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, http://www.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, no. 5433.
C. E. Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), p. 47.
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. 836.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)