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Harley MS 6298
- Record Id:
- 040-002052146
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002052146
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000899.0x00028d
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6298
- Title:
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Ricardo da Venosa, De Paulino et Polla; Mattieu of Boulogne, Lamentationes (imperfect)
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains De Paulino et Polla, a Latin comedy in elegiac couplets, written by the Italian jurist Ricardo da Venosa (fl. early 13th century), and an imperfect copy of the Lamentationes of Mathieu of Boulogne (b. 1260?, d. 1320?), a French cleric and poet.
Contents:
ff. 1r-20v: Richardo da Venosa, De Paulino et Polla;
ff. 20v-99v: Mathieu of Boulogne, Lamentationes (imperfect at the end).
Decoration:
1 three-sided bar border in colours and gold with foliate motifs, a dragon, and a large illuminated initial (f. 1r). Partial border in colours and gold with foliate motifs and a large illuminated initial (f. 20v). 1 large initial in colours and gold with foliate motifs (f. 21r). Blue initials with red penwork decoration and red initials with grey penwork decoration, some with faces in the bowls. Rubrics in red. Capitals marked in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002052146", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 6298: Ricardo da Venosa, De Paulino et Polla; Mattieu of Boulogne, Lamentationes (imperfect)" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002052146 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 6298 : Ricardo da Venosa, De Paulino et Polla; Mattieu of Boulogne, Lamentationes (imperfect) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[6302]/040-002052146
- 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:
- 1375
- End Date:
- 1424
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 14th century-1st quarter of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 210 x 145 mm (text space: 150 x 80 mm).
Foliation: ff. 99 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end).
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: Post-1600. Red leather with gold tooling; marbled endpapers; gilt edges.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England.
Provenance:
John Somers (b. 1651, d. 1716), Baron Somers, lawyer and politician: inscribed by Edward Harley, 'Janu: 6. 1738/9 from Ld Somers' (f. 1r).
A former pressmark, '9.T.16' (with the 'T' crossed out), and in another hand, 'Noel 27' (f. [i]v).
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 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. 6298.
Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), p. 309.
Joachim Rolland, Le théâtre comique en France avant le XVe siècle: essai bibliographique. Les origines latines du théâtre comique en France: essai bibliographique (Geneva: Slatkine Reprints, 1972), p. 177.
Laura Kendrick, 'Medieval Vernacular Versions of Ancient Comedy: Geoffrey Chaucer, Eustache Deschamps, Vitalis of Blois and Plautus' Ampitryon', in Ancient Comedy and Reception: Essays in Honor of Jeffrey Henderson, ed. by S. Douglas Olson (Berlin: Walther de Gruyter, 2013), p. 390 n. 42.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Mathieu of Boulogne, French cleric and poet, 1260?-1320?,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000382665884,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/266658923
Ricardo da Venosa, Italian jurist and poet, fl. 13th century,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000364729004,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/228381474
Somers, John, Baron Somers, lawyer and politician, 1651-1716 - Places:
- England