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Harley MS 5771
- Record Id:
- 040-001616225
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-001616225
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001515.0x000209
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 5771
- Title:
- Samuel Morland, Élévation des eaux par toute sorte de machines reduite à la mesure, au poids, à la balance
- Scope & Content:
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Includes the copy of the Élévation des eaux, a treatise on hydrostatics and hydraulic that Sir Samuel Morland dedicated in 1683 to Louis XIV, king of France. The text was first published in print in 1685 in Paris.
Decoration:
The text on each page is written within a golden or blue frame with headings in gold and some words in blue. Numerous tables in red or gold.
Includes an illustration (p. 27) and a diagram (p. 28) of a water pump, and diagrams relating to hydrostatics (p. 31).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
Harley Science Project - Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-001616225", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 5771: Samuel Morland, Élévation des eaux par toute sorte de machines reduite à la mesure, au poids, à la balance" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-001616225 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 5771 : Samuel Morland, Élévation des eaux par toute sorte de machines reduite à la mesure, au poids, à la balance - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[5774]/040-001616225
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Harley_MS_5771 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- French
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1683
- End Date:
- 1683
- Date Range:
- 1683
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment codex.
Dimensions: 130 x 80 mm (text space: 105 x 60 mm).
Foliation: iii + 1* + 19 (38 pages) (paper flyleaves; f. 1* is a parchment title page). Original pagination 1-38.
Script: Humanistic minuscule.
Binding: Post-1600. Red leather binding with a toolled and gilded decoration of the royal arms of France.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: France (Paris).
Provenance:
Louis XIV (b. 1638, d. 1715), king of France: dedicated and presented to him by Sir Samuel Morland (b. 1625, d. 1695), natural philosopher, diplomat and the master of mechanics to King Charles II of England, working at the palace of Versailles from December 1681, his dedication (f. 1*r).
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.
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:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III, no. 5771.
Rhys Jenkins, 'A Contribution to the History of the Steam Engine' in Links in the History of Engineering and Technology from Tudor Times: The Collected Papers of Rhys Jenkins (Newcomen Society, 1936), pp. 40-47 (p. 46).
C. E. Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), p. 227.
Alan Marshall, ‘Morland, Sir Samuel, first baronet (1625–1695)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/19282, accessed document.write(printCitationDate()); 8 Nov 2011].
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)