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Harley MS 4361

Record Id:

040-001615421

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-001615421

MDARK:

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LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 4361

Title:

Livre de Sydrac

Scope & Content:

Livre de Sydrac (ff. 7r-97v), preceded by a table of rubrics (ff. 1r-6r).

Decoration:

1 foliate initial 'A'(ntens) in red and blue with partial bar border accomodating a marginal portrait of king Bochus, and a dragon, at the beginning of the text (f. 7r).

Descenders or partial bar borders with dragons, birds, or human faces (ff. 1r, 10r, 10v, 23v, 31v), a devil (f. 10), and a man (f. 31v). Marginal drawings: a knight on horseback (f. 41r), a centaur fishing (f. 46r), a dragon (f. 69v).

Initials in red with blue pen-flourishing or in blue with red pen-flourishing. Smaller initials in red with blue penwork decoration and in blue with red penwork decoration. Plain initials in red or blue. Rubrics in red. Capitals marked in red.

Includes an astrological diagram in ink (f. 86v), and two unfinished diagrams (f. 87r).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection
Harley Science Project

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-001615421

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 4361 : Livre de Sydrac

Contains:

Harley MS 4361, ff 1r-6r : Table of contents
Harley MS 4361, ff 7r-97v : Livre de Sydrac

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Hierarchy:

032-002045828[4354]/040-001615421

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

97 folios.

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Languages:

French, Old

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1275

End Date:

1305

Date Range:

c 1280-c 1300

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment.

Dimensions: 335 x 230 mm (text space: 230 x 140 mm).

Foliation: ff. iv + iii + 97; catchwords.

Script: Gothic; colophon: 'al maistre chelle sc[ri]ps a lui do[n] / dieu pris et honor / car il est dun bon chastel de crema qi est molt bo[n] et bel' (f. 97v).

Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house binding.

Custodial History:

Origin: Probably writtten in Crema, Lombardy: see colophon (f. 97v); or in Southern France.

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; sold to Harley on 18 January 1723/4 (see 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 ‘18 die Januarij, A.D. 1723/4’ (f. [iii]).

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.

Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), no. 4361.

H. L. D. Ward and J. A. Herbert, Catalogue of Romances in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum, 3 vols (London: British Museum, 1883-1910), I, pp. 911-12.

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. 244 n. 5.

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. 254.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)