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Harley MS 6794/2

Record Id:

040-004373140

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-004373140

MDARK:

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LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 6794/2

Title:

Theological texts

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 197r-218v: St Jerome’s letter to Eustocium, translated into Italian, begins imperfectly.

ff. 219r-222v: sermons.

ff. 222v-225v: St Jerome’s letter to his mother, with a prayer and an indulgence.

ff. 226r-271r: Giovanni Dominici, Regola del Governo di Cura Familiare.

ff. 271v-279r: Giovanni Dominici, Sermone del Sabato Santo.

ff. 279v-280v: Domenico Cavalca, extracts from the life of St John the Hermit in Vite dei santi padre.

ff. 1-196 and 281-335 are bound as Harley MS 6794/1.

Decoration:

Initials in red or blue with brown pen-flourishing heightened with pale colours (ff. 197v, 199r, 201v, 203r, 204r, 206v, 209r, 210v, 212r, etc.), sometimes extending into coloured drawings with the head of a woman smelling a flower and wearing a head dress with a bird (f. 197v), a monkey (f. 201v), a head in profile (ff. 203r, 216v), a head and a hand (f. 204r), a jester's head (f. 206v), a crane and dragon heads (f. 215v), a hand holding a quill and a fish (f. 227v). Quire marks decorated with pen-flourishing in brown ink with touches of yellow (ff. 208r, 220r, 232r, 244r, 256r, 280r), including faces in profile and a bucraneum (f. 268r). Capitals marked in yellow.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-004373140

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 6794/2 : Theological texts

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[7980]/040-004373140

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:

1500

End Date:

1549

Date Range:

1st half of the 16th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Paper.

Dimensions: 280 x 200 mm (text space: 190 x 130 mm).

Foliation: ff. 197-280 (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning and 3 at the end).

Script: Humanistic.

Binding: Post-1600. British Museum in-house. Rebound in 1961.

Custodial History:

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, certain parts of this compilation inscribed as usual by their librarian, Humfrey Wanley '16 Octobris 1725' (ff. 125r, 155r).

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), no. 6794.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)