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Add Ch 1528
- Record Id:
- 032-002116984
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002116984
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000040.0x0001a1
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100182983364.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add Ch 1528
- Title:
- Letter of Margaret, Archduchess of Austria, to the Council of Flanders, concerning a treaty between the Holy Roman Emperor and the King of France
- Scope & Content:
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Original letter of Margaret of Austria (b. 1480, d. 1530), Archduchess of Austria and Governor of the Low Countries, to the Council of Flanders, transmitting to them the translation of a treaty concluded at Calais between Charles V (r. 1519-1556), Holy Roman Emperor, and Francis I (r. 1515-1547), King of France, mediated by Thomas Wolsey (b. 1473, d. 1530), Archbishop of York.
Given at Brussels, 15 October 1521, and bearing Margaret's signature.
The dorse bears the address to the Council and a note recording its reading, written in a contemporary 16th-century hand.
The letter is housed together with a single paper leaf, the recto featuring a brief description of the letter in Modern French, possibly written to accompany the item as part of the sale of Jacques-Joseph Techener (b. 1802, d. 1835), bookseller, in Paris in 1835.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Charters and Rolls
Medieval and Renaissance Women - Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002116984
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002116984
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 document
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100182983364.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- French
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1521
- End Date:
- 1521
- Date Range:
- 13 Oct 1521
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Paper.
Dimensions: 235 x 215 mm (f. 1); 215 x 230 mm (f. 2).
Foliation: ff. 2.
Script: Gothic cursive.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Brussels, Southern Netherlands (modern-day Belgium).
Provenance:
Lille Archives: removed from the Archives by 1835.
Jacques-Joseph Techener (b. 1802, d. 1873), bookseller: his sale, Paris, 1835, lot 20 (Ford, 'Lost and Found' (2023), p. 708).
Purchased by the British Museum, at Evan's, 23 January 1838, lot 873.
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1836-1840 (London: British Museum, 1843), 1838, p. 19
Christopher Ford, ‘Lost and Found: The Fate of 151 Manuscripts Stolen from the Archives of the ‘ancienne chambre des comptes’ at Lille’, Revue du Nord, 445 (2023), 655-708 (p. 708).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)