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Detailed record for Harley 7357
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| Author |
Radulphus Brito |
| Title |
Quaestiones super Isagogen Porphyrii (ff. 1-41); Quaestiones super Praedicamenta Aristotelis (ff. 41v-73v); Quaestiones super Peri hermeneias Aristotelis (ff. 73v-94v) |
| Origin |
Italy, ?N. |
| Date |
1st half of the 15th century |
| Language |
Latin |
| Script |
Gothic |
| Decoration |
Initials in colours and gold (f. 1). Initials in red with purple pen-flourishing or in blue with red pen-flourishing. |
| Dimensions in mm |
280 x 220 (155 x 130), in 2 columns |
| Official foliation |
ff. 95 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end) |
| Form |
Paper codex |
| Binding |
BM/BL in-house. Rebound in 1977. |
| Provenance |
Inscribed 'Ad usum Gasparis caliacotij et amicorum' (f. 1).
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, possibly by Edward, 'Janu. 1728/9' (f. 1).
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. |
| Notes |
Leaf signatures. Catchwords written horizontally.
Watermark caught in the gutter (a crown?).
f. 95 is a flyleaf with later inscriptions. |
| Select bibliography |
A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), no. 7357. |
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