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Add Ch 62467
- Record Id:
- 032-002198796
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002198796
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000002031.0x00038f
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100182983373.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add Ch 62467
- Title:
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A set of instructions from Margaret III, Dowager Duchess of Burgundy, to her commissioners to make a treaty of commerce with England
- Scope & Content:
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A detailed set of instructions from Margaret III (b. 1350, d. 1405), Dowager Duchess of Burgundy, to her commissioners, to make a trade treaty with England, including a list of rights and privileges to secure and when they should return to her for further instructions.
Given at Arras, 19 December 1404.
Inscribed with the name 'J. de Morel' inscribed at the join between the two membranes and at the end of the second membrane.
Affixed with Margaret's red oval seal, with a heraldic device of an angel on the right and two indistinct heraldic quarters on the left, within a quatre-foil panel, an eagle in each of the top corners, a lion in each of the bottom corners, and the fragmentary legend, ‘s marguerite de flandres et duc… bourgoinone’ (membrane 2).
Endorsed: in a 15th-century hand, 'Instruction depar madame sur le fait du traitie dentre Engletrre et Flandres pour le cours de la marchandise. xiiij'; in an 18th-century hand, 'Commerce, 1404 / Instruction donnée par Marguerite, duchesse douairière de Bourgogne / à ses députés pour traitter au / nom du roy et en son nom de / commerce avec l'Angleterre. A Arras le 19 décembre / 1404'; in a 19th-century hand, 'Phillips MS / 34916', with the lot number 702 (membrane 2d).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Charters and Rolls
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002198796
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002198796
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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1 document
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100182983373.0x000001
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- Languages:
- French, Middle
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1404
- End Date:
- 1404
- Date Range:
- 19 Dec 1404
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 295 x 905 mm.
Arrangement: 2 membranes joined together end to end.
Script: Gothic cursive.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Arras, Hauts-de-France, France.
Provenance:
Lille Archives: probably no longer at Lille in August 1835 (Chaplais, 'Documents concernant l'Angleterre et l'Écosse' (1956), p. 199; Ford, 'Lost and Found' (2023), p. 684).
Sir Thomas Phillipps (b. 1792, d. 1872), 1st Baronet, English antiquary and book collector: acquired around the middle of the 19th century; his MS 34916.
Purchased by the British Museum at the Phillipps sale, Sotheby's, 27 June 1919, lot 709.
- Publications:
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Pierre Chaplais, 'Documents concernant l'Angleterre et l'Écosse anciennement conservés à la Chambre des Comptes de Lille (XIIe- XVe s.)', Revue du Nord, 150 (1956), 185-210 (p. 199).
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. 684).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)