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Harley MS 6329

Record Id:

040-002052178

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002052178

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000899.0x0002ad

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 6329

Title:

Gaius Marius Victorinus, Commentary on Cicero's De inventione

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-50r: Gaius Marius Victorinus, Commentary on Cicero's De inventione.

The manuscript contains a later addition:

f. 1r: Marginal notes on Victorinus; added in the 15th century.

f. i verso: Title inscription in pencil: 'Fabii Victorini Commentari in M. T. Ciceronis Rhetor[…]s'; added in the (?) 19th century.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002052178

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 6329 : Gaius Marius Victorinus, Commentary on Cicero's De inventione

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[6334]/040-002052178

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:

1395

End Date:

1458

Date Range:

c 1400-1458

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: 295 x 225 mm (text space: 205 x 150 mm, written in 2 columns).

Foliation: ff. 50 + i (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end); f. i is a paper leaf after f. 50; 3 unfoliated blank paper leaves between f. 50 and f. i; 1 unfoliated paper stub after f. 20.

Collation: Indicated by catchwords; each quire has been mounted separately onto a paper guard.

Script: Gothic cursive.

Binding: British Museum in-house; brown half leather with the Harleian arms gold stamped on the outside covers.

Custodial History:

Origin:

Italy.

Provenance:

Zomino [‘Sozomenus’] da Pistoia (b. 1387, d. 1458), humanist: his notarial inscriptions on f. 1r and 50r, and (?) his marginal notes on f. 1r (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 369).

John Gibson (fl. 1720-1726), dealer: purchased from him by Harley on 22 June 1726 (see Diary, ed. by Wright and Wright (1966), II, p. 337 n. 9; Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 162).

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, inscribed as usual by their librarian, Humfrey Wanley ‘22 die Junii A. D. 1720'.

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.

Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III, p. 357.

The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by Cyril Ernest Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), II: 1723-1726, p. 337 n. 9.

Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 162, 369.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Victorinus [Victorinus Afer], Gaius Marius, Rhetor, fl 4th century,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121288080

Places:

Italy