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Harley MS 6507
- Record Id:
- 040-002052356
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002052356
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000935.0x00001f
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6507
- Title:
- Priscian, Institutiones grammaticae, Books 17-18 (the 'Priscianus minor')
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-102v: Priscian, Institutiones grammaticae, Books 17-18 (the 'Priscianus minor') (intentionally ends at Book 18, chapter 19, 'quam in aliis constructionum plerisque idem servent').
Decoration:
1 large initial in colours with a historiated portrait of Priscian and a foliate extension (f. 1r). Initials in blue with red pen-flourishing and in red with blue pen-flourishing. Rubrics in red. Paraphs in red or blue. Capitals marked in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002052356", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 6507: Priscian, Institutiones grammaticae, Books 17-18 (the 'Priscianus minor')" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002052356 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 6507 : Priscian, Institutiones grammaticae, Books 17-18 (the 'Priscianus minor') - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[6512]/040-002052356
- 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:
- 1300
- End Date:
- 1349
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 14th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 230 x 150 mm (text space: 140 x 85 mm).
Foliation: ff. 104 (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning and 2 at the end); ff. 103-104 are blank medieval parchment leaves with added inscriptions.
Script: Gothic.
Binding: British Museum, rebound in 1963. Fore-edges marked in red.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Italy.
Provenance:
Cino Rinuccini (b. c. 1350, d. 1417), Florentine poet: inscribed, 'Iste liber est cini derenuccini' (f. 103v).
'Bencino', possibly Giovanni di Bencino (b. 1412, d. 1418), Florentine notary: named in three added inscriptions (f. 103v and 104r, x2).
John Gibson (fl. 1720-1726), dealer; sold to Harley on 22 June 1726 (see Wright and Wright, Diary (1966); Wright, Fontes (1972)).
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 Junij, A.D. 1726’ (f. 1r).
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 (1808), no. 6507.
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. 339, no. 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. 129, 162.
G. L. Bursill-Hall, A Census of Medieval Latin Grammatical Manuscripts, Grammatica Speculativa: Sprachtheorie und Logik des Mittelalters, 4 (Stuttgart: Frommann-Holzboog, 1981), p. 119, no. 151.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Gibson, John, book-dealer, fl 1720-1726
Priscian, fl 500-530,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000399133112,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/76294069
Rinuccini, Cino, Florentine poet, 1350-1417