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Harley MS 6327

Record Id:

040-002052176

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002052176

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000899.0x0002ab

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 6327

Title:

Cicero, Academica

Scope & Content:

This manuscript contains a copy of Academica, an epistemological work by the Roman statesman and philosopher Marcus Tullius Cicero (b. 106, d. 43 BC).

Contents:

ff. 1r-6v: Cicero, Academica priora;

ff. 7r-34v: Cicero, Academica posteriora.

Decoration:

Inhabited initials in colours and gold (a putto holding a column (f. 1r); two winged putti holding a necklace with a cameo (f. 7r)).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002052176

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 6327 : Cicero, Academica

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[6332]/040-002052176

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:

1500

End Date:

1549

Date Range:

1st half of the 16th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment.

Dimensions: 280 x 190 mm (text space: 200 x 125 mm).

Foliation: ff. 34 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves and 1 unfoliated parchment flyleaf at the beginning + 1 unfoliated parchment leaf and 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end).

Collation: i⁶, ii-iii¹⁰, iv⁸.

Script: Humanistic.

Binding: British Museum in-house. Rebound 20 June 1966. Red half-leather binding with the Harleian armorial bookplate, gold-stamped on the upper and lower covers.

Custodial History:

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:

Select digital coverage available for this manuscript; see the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts, https://bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/.

Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), no. 6327.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Tullius Cicero, Marcus, 106 BC-43 BC,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000139322910,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/78769600

Places:

Italy