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Harley MS 6522
- Record Id:
- 040-002052371
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002052371
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000935.0x00002e
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6522
- Title:
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Cicero, Disputationes tusculanae, Orationes in Catilinam, De senectute, De amicitia and Paradoxa stoicorum
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-67v: Cicero, Disputationes tusculanae, written by Jean Blanchard, probably in 1463 (see Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts (1979)).
ff. 67v-85v: Cicero, Orationes in Catilinam, written by Jean Blanchard in 1469.
ff. 86r-105v: Cicero, De senectute.
ff. 106r-129v: Cicero, De amicitia.
ff. 130v-138v: Cicero, Paradoxa stoicorum.
Decoration:
9 initials in red or blue with pen-flourishing in the other colour (ff. 1, 3v, 17v, 39v, 51r, 67v, 72v, 77r, 81v). Coloured initials in red or blue. Capitals marked in red. From ff. 86r, 3 puzzle initials in red and blue with pen-flourishing in the same colours (ff. 86r, 106r, 130r). Coloured initials in red or blue.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002052371", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 6522: Cicero, Disputationes tusculanae, Orationes in Catilinam, De senectute, De amicitia and Paradoxa stoicorum" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002052371 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 6522 : Cicero, Disputationes tusculanae, Orationes in Catilinam, De senectute, De amicitia and Paradoxa stoicorum - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[6527]/040-002052371
- 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:
- 1463
- End Date:
- 1469
- Date Range:
- 1463-1469
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 210 x 145 (150 x 95) mm; from ff. 86: (140-145 x 80-90).
Foliation: ff. 138 (+ 1 paper, 2 parchment flyleaves and 12 unfoliated leaves at the beginning + 1 after f. 85 and 3 after ff. 129 and 138 + 2 parchment and 1 paper flyleaves at the end).
Collation: Mainly in quires of 12.
Script: Gothic cursive, written by Jean Blanchard to f. 85v.
Catchwords written horizontally and vertically. Leaf signatures.
Binding: Post-1600. Binding of brown mottled calf with gold fillets.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Angers, France.
Provenance:
Written by Jean Blanchard in Angers in 1463 and 1469: inscribed colophons 'M. T. ciceronis... tusculane disputationes... Expliciunt duodecima novembris Andegavis [Angers]. Anno d[omi]ni milesimo quadringentesimo saxagesimo [sic] tercio' (f. 67), 'Andegavis xiii^a^ Kalendas Martij Anno dominj 1469 scripta sunt per Johannem Bla[n]chard' (f. 85v).Carefully drawn manicula (ff. 86-105v) and face (f. 95), ?17th century.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://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. 6522.
Andrew G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c. 700-1600 in The Department of Manuscripts: The British Library, 2 vols (London: British Library, 1979), no. 842.
R. H. Rouse and M. D. Reeve, 'Cicero: Speeches', in Texts and Transmission: A Survey of the Latin Classics, ed. by L. D. Reynolds (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983), pp. 54-98 (p. 62).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)