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Detailed record for Harley 2700
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| Part 1 |
ff. 1-8, 14-197v |
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| Author |
Martial (Marcus Valerius Martialis) |
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| Title |
Epigrams , imperfect |
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| Origin |
France |
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| Date |
12th century |
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| Language |
Latin |
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| Script |
Protogothic |
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| Decoration |
1 large foliate initial in red (f. 1v). Plain initials in red, green or brown, some with pen-work decoration in various colours. Rubrics in red. |
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| Dimensions in mm |
160 x 100 (115 x 60/70) |
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| Part 2 |
ff. 9-13 |
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| Author |
Martial (Marcus Valerius Martialis) |
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| Title |
Epigrams |
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| Origin |
Italy, N. E. (Padua ?) |
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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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| Artists |
Bartolomeo Sanvito |
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| Decoration |
Large initials in yellow, red and blue. |
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| Dimensions in mm |
160 x 100 (115 x 55/65) |
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| Part 3 |
ff. 198-202v |
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| Author |
Martial (Marcus Valerius Martialis) |
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| Title |
Epigrams |
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| Origin |
Italy, Central, Rome |
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| Date |
Last quarter of the 15th century, c. 1477-1492 |
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| Language |
Latin |
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| Script |
Humanistic cursive |
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| Scribe |
Bartolomeo Sanvito |
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| Artists |
Bartolomeo Sanvito |
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| Decoration |
Large initials in yellow and red. |
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| Dimensions in mm |
160 x 100 (115 x 65/75) |
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| Official foliation |
ff. i + 202 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end) |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
BM/BL in-house. Rebound in 1986. |
| Provenance |
The original manuscript was written in the 12th century, possibly in France; imperfect by the mid-15th century, it was supplemented in its missing portions by an anonymous 15th-century scribe, possibly in Padua, and by Bartolomeo Sanvito (b. 1435, d. 1518), who also added the coloured initials and a number of marginal and interlinear notes, variants and corrections.
Francesco di Arcoano Buzzacarini (b. c. 1440, d. c. 1500): several marginal and interlinear notes, corrections and variants in Latin and Greek.
Andrew Hay (d. 1754?), dealer: sold to Harley on 13 July 1723 (see Wright).
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 ‘13 die Mensis Julij, A.D. 1723’ (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 |
1 blank parchment folio after f. 8 and 2 after f. 13.
f. 1 is a parchment leaf with a Latin cursive inscription on the recto. |
| Select bibliography |
A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), II (1808), no. 2700.
The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by Cyril Ernest Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), II: 1723-1726, p. 248 n. 6.
Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), p. 183.
M. D. Reeve, 'Martial' in Texts and Transmission: A Survey of the Latin Classics, ed. by L. D. Reynolds (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983), pp. 239-44 (p. 241 n. 21).
A. C. de la Mare and Laura Nuvoloni, Bartolomeo Sanvito: The Life and Work of a Renaissance Scribe, ed. by Anthony R.A. Hobson and Christopher de Hamel, (Whitsbury: The Handwriting of Italian Humanists, 2009), no. 67. |
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Part 1
ff. 1-8, 14-197v |
| Martial (Marcus Valerius Martialis) Epigrams , imperfect |
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ff. 1v-2
Decorated initial |
f. 192v
Text page |
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Part 2
ff. 9-13 |
| Martial (Marcus Valerius Martialis) Epigrams |
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f. 11
Text page and coloured initials |
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Part 3
ff. 198-202v |
| Martial (Marcus Valerius Martialis) Epigrams |
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f. 201
Text page and coloured initials |
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