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Harley MS 6455
- Record Id:
- 040-002052304
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002052304
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000899.0x00032b
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6455
- Title:
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Collection of Italian poetry, including 'Ragionamento della poesia di M. Bernardo Tasso' (printed book, 1562), and a poem on Naples by Ioan Bernardino Fuscano (printed book, 1531)
- Scope & Content:
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This composite manuscript contains printed and handwritten texts relating to Italian poetry.
Contents:
ff. 2r-17r: A printed book with a decorated frontispiece: 'Ragionamento della poesia di M. Bernardo Tasso - Con Privilegio'; printed in Venice by Gabriel Giolito de' Ferrari, 1562.
ff. 18r-75r: A handwritten text, entitled: 'La settima parte delle rime di M. Diomede Borghesi gentilhuomo Senese e Academico Intronato - Alla Sig. Marchesa di Castiglione'; with the date 1572.
ff. 76r-98r: A handwritten Italian poem on silkworms in two books; a free translation of Marco Girolamo Vida's De Bombice.
ff. 99r-176v: Poem on Naples by Ioan Bernardino Fuscano, with a dedication to Joan Frencesco Alois de Napoli; printed in Rome by Antonio Blado de Asola in 1531
The manuscript contains a later addition:
f. 1r: A description of the manuscript's contents in Italian; added in the late 16th century.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002052304", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 6455: Collection of Italian poetry, including 'Ragionamento della poesia di M. Bernardo Tasso' (printed book, 1562), and a poem on Naples by…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002052304 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 6455 : Collection of Italian poetry, including 'Ragionamento della poesia di M. Bernardo Tasso' (printed book, 1562), and a poem on… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[6460]/040-002052304
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Italian
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1526
- End Date:
- 1577
- Date Range:
- c 1531-c 1572
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 190 x 130 mm.
Foliation: ff. 176 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end); 2 unfoliated blank paper leaves after f. 75; and 3 after f. 98.
Collation: Each quire has been mounted separately onto a paper guard; indicated by catchwords.
Script: Humanistic cursive.
Binding: British Museum in-house; brown half leather with the Harleian arms gold stamped on the outside covers; re-bound on 7 July 1966.
- Custodial History:
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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.
- Publications:
- A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), p. 690.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- Italy