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Harley MS 2688, ff 1r-16v

Record Id:

041-001612921

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-001612920

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000002012.0x0000b0

LARK:

SLARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100060276198.0x00000a

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 2688, ff 1r-16v

Title:

Liudprand of Cremona, Antapodosis, (books 1-4) (imperfect)

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-16v: Liudprand (b. c 922, d. c 972), bishop of Cremona, Antapodosis (Retribution), books 1-4, dedicated to Recemundus, bishop of Elvira, imperfect at the end, beginning: 'In nomine Patris et Filii et Spiritus Sancti incipit liber ανταπoδοσιν regum atque principum partis europe a Liuprando Licinensis (sic) ecclesie diacone. Ad Regimundum (sic) hispanie provincie liberritane ecclesie episcopum editus'. Book 1 (ff. 1r-5v), beginning: 'Reverendo tociusque sanctitatis pleno domno'; Book 2 (ff. 5v-9r), preceded by capitula (ff. 5v-6r), beginning: 'Postquam vitalis calor Arnulfi regis membra deserens'; Book 3 (ff. 9r-11v), preceded by capitula (ff. 9r-v), beginning: 'Operis huius titulum', imperfect at the end, ends with chapter 26: ' nomine Veneria est dulcedine iunctus'; Book 4 (ff. 11v-15r), imperfect at the beginning, beginning with chapter 7: 'tui hoc nomine vaticinare potuerunt'; Book 5 (ff. 15r-16v), preceded by capitula (f. 15r), beginning: 'Factum est', imperfect at the end, ends with chapter 18: 'adeo ut inter pauperes regis in praesentia comedentes se regi nudum ostenderet'.

Decoration:

Small initials in brown.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

England and France 700-1200 Project
Greek Manuscripts
Harley Collection

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-001612920
041-001612921

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 2688 : A collection of fragments including Liutprand of Cremona, Antapodosis; a Miscellany; Quintus Horatius Flaccus Epodes; Quintus…

Harley MS 2688, ff 1r-16v : Liudprand of Cremona, Antapodosis, (books 1-4) (imperfect)

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[2689]/040-001612920[0001]/041-001612921

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661

Record Type (Level):

Item

Extent:

Part of Harley MS 2688

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1100

End Date:

1140

Date Range:

1st quarter of the 12th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Dimensions: 270 x 195 mm (text space: 240 x 180 mm, in two columns).

Script: Late Caroline minuscule (Incipit and explicit written in uncial).

Custodial History:

Origin: ?Cologne, Western Germany.

See Cavallero, La antapódosis o Retribución de Liutprando de Cremona (2007).

Provenance:

Johann Georg Graevius (b. 1632, d. 1703), German classical scholar and critic: his manuscript numbers 24, 27 and 30; possibly sold to Johann Wilhelm in 1703 with the rest of his library (see Clark, 'The Library of J. G. Graevius' (1891); Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)).

Johann Wilhelm, elector Palatine (b. 1658, d. 1716), owner of a library in Düsseldorf: bought the entire Graevius library in 1703 (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)).

Giovanni Giacomo Zamboni (d. 1753), resident in London for the Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (c. 1723-1753), friend of Michael Maittaire (b. 1670, d. 1747), classical scholar and historian of printing: bought the Johann Wilhelm library sometime before 1724 through Johann Büchels (b. 1659, d. 1738): ff. 1-54 sold by him to Edward Harley: ff. 17-22, 23-46 and 47-54 on 6 August 1724, and ff. 1-16 on 20 October 1725 (see Wright and Wright, The Diary of Humfrey Wanley (1966); Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)).

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Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Liudprand of Cremona, Bishop of Cremona, c 920-972,
see also http://isni.org/isni/000000012124087X,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/22933701

Subjects:

History

Places:

Cologne, Germany