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Harley MS 6512
- Record Id:
- 040-002052361
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002052361
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000935.0x000024
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6512
- Title:
- Sozomeno da Pistoia, Annotations on Horace's Satires and Odes, and Cicero's De finibus bonorum et malorum
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-18v: Fragmentary annotations by the humanist Sozomeno da Pistoia (b. 1387, d. 1458) on Horace's Satires and Odes, and Cicero's De finibus bonorum et malorum.
The old foliation (nos. 56, 57, 49, 64, 65, 72, 73, 80, 81, 88, 89, 96) indicates that the leaves were once part of a much larger manuscript and are out of order.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002052361", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 6512: Sozomeno da Pistoia, Annotations on Horace's Satires and Odes, and Cicero's De finibus bonorum et malorum" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002052361 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 6512 : Sozomeno da Pistoia, Annotations on Horace's Satires and Odes, and Cicero's De finibus bonorum et malorum - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[6517]/040-002052361
- 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:
- 1427
- End Date:
- 1463
- Date Range:
- 1427-c 1458
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 220 x 140 mm (text space: 160 x 90 mm).
Foliation: ff. 18 (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning + 1 unfoliated parchment flyleaf and 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the end); 1 unfoliated parchment stub after f. 13; ff. 16 and 17 are smaller leaves (200 x 140 mm); 1 unfoliated paper pastedown on f. [19]verso (printed Harley shelfmark with subject inscription in pencil: 'Latin').
Collation: Indicated by catchwords.
Script: Italic cursive.
Binding: Post-1600. Marbled paper over paper boards.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Italy.
Provenance:
Zomino [‘Sozomenus’] da Pistoia (b. 1387, d. 1458), humanist: his autograph manuscript (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 369).
John Gibson (fl. 1720-1726), dealer: purchased from him by Harley on 22 June 1726 (see 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 Junij, A.D. 1726’ (f. 3r).
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:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), pp. 371-72.
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.
Irene Ceccherini, Sozomeno da Pistoia (1387-1458). Scritture e libri di un umanista, Biblioteca dell'«Archivum Romanicum» Serie I: Storia, Letteratura, Paleografia, 431 (Florence: Olschki, 2016), pp. 174-84.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Horatius Flaccus, Quintus, also known as Horace, 65 BC-8 BC,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121452178,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/100227522
Tullius Cicero, Marcus, 106 BC-43 BC,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000139322910,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/78769600
Zomino [Sozomeno] da Pistoia, humanist and cleric, 1387-1458,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000002525047,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/66823116 - Places:
- Italy