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Detailed record for Harley 4088
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| Part 1 |
ff. 1-12v |
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| Author |
Cyriacus Anconitanus |
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| Title |
'Commentarium de Pontiano Taraconensium regis conflictu navali ad Franciscum Scalamontium equitem' |
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| Origin |
Italy, Central (?Ancona) |
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| Date |
2nd quarter of the 15th century |
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| Language |
Latin |
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| Script |
Humanistic |
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| Decoration |
White vine initial with a bird and a butterfly (f. 1). Initials in gold or silver. |
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| Dimensions in mm |
205 x 130 (125 x 70) |
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| Part 2 |
ff. 13-21 |
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| Author |
'Ber[nardus] Capella' and 'Gas[pardus] Manius' |
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| Title |
'Aegloga' |
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| Origin |
Italy |
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| Date |
2nd half of the 15th century |
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| Language |
Latin |
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| Script |
Humanistic cursive |
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| Decoration |
Rubrics in ochre ink. |
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| Dimensions in mm |
205 x 130 (130 x 70) |
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| Official foliation |
ff. 21 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves and 1 ruled parchment flyleaf at the beginning + 1 unfoliated ruled parchment leaf after f. 12 + 2 ruled parchment leaves and numerous modern paper flyleaves at the end) |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
BM/BL in-house. Rebound in 1967. |
| Provenance |
Cyriacus Anconitanus: the text of part 1 is corrected by Cyriacus himself (see Sabia 2000).
Nathaniel Noel (fl. 1681, d. c. 1753), bookseller, employed by Edward Harley for buying books and manuscripts chiefly on the Continent, where his agent was George Suttie (Wright 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 ‘20 die Januarij, A.D. 1721/22’ (f. [iv]).
Edward Harley bequeathed the library to his widow, Henrietta, née Cavendish 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. |
| Notes |
f. 21v is ruled and blank.
A composite manuscript.
The text of part 2 is dedicated to Raphael 'card[inal] S. Georgij ac s[erenissi]mi D. M. Camerario'. |
| Select bibliography |
A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: [n. pub.], 1808-12), III (1808) , no. 4088.
Paul Oskar Kristeller, Iter Italicum: Accedunt Alia Itinera: A Finding List of Uncatalogued or Incompletely Catalogued Humanistic Manuscripts of the Renaissance in Italian and other Libraries 7 vols (London: Warburg Institute; Leiden: Brill, 1963-1997), IV (1989), p. 178.
The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by Cyril Ernest Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), I: 1715-1723, p. 138 n. 8.
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. 253-54.
Kyriaci Anconitani Naumachia regia, ed. by Liliana Monti Sabia, Studi / Istituto nazionale di studi sul Rinascimento meridionale, 11 (Pisa : Istituti editoriali e poligrafici internazionali, 2000). |
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Part 1
ff. 1-12v |
| Cyriacus Anconitanus 'Commentarium de Pontiano Taraconensium regis conflictu navali ad Franciscum Scalamontium equitem' |
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