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Harley MS 334

Record Id:

040-002046162

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002046162

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000596.0x00029f

LARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100057740087.0x000001

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 334

Title:

Gautier de Metz, L’image du monde

Scope & Content:

f. 2* verso: ‘A medecyne for the stomok’, Middle English, late 14th century.

ff. 1r–107v: Gautier de Metz, L’image du monde (Le livre de clergie en roumans).

f. 108r–v: Pen trials, 15th century, including the opening section of a charter.

Decoration:

1 large miniature in colours, gold, and silver (f. 1r). 11 miniatures in colours (ff. 2v, 3r, 5r, 6r, 7r, 21r, 25r, 25v, 26v, 29r, 33v). 45 tinted drawings in colours (ff. 11r, 37r, 39r, 40v, 44r, 45r, 45v, 47r, 52v, 53r, 55v, 57r, 58r, 58v, 59r, 61r, 62v, 63v, 64v, 65v, 68, 68v, 69v, 71v, 72v, 73v, 75r, 75v, 76, 76v, 77r, 78r, 83v, 86v, 91r, 94v, 95v, 99r, 100r, 102r, 104r, 104v, 105r, 106r, 107v). 16 diagrams in colours (ff. 35v, 37v, 38r, 41v, 42v, 43r, 43v, 79v, 81r, 83r, 84r, 85v, 86r, 87v, 88v, 89v). The flourished initials are Parisian, c. 1430–40, however some miniatures seem to have been executed by English artists, according to François Avril. The images of God have been deliberately defaced (e.g. f. 6r).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002046162

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 334 : Gautier de Metz, L’image du monde

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[0333]/040-002046162

Container:

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

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100057740087.0x000001

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Languages:

English, Middle
French, Old

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1425

End Date:

1449

Date Range:

2nd quarter of the 15th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: parchment.

Dimensions: 240 × 175 mm (written area 165 × 70/85 mm).

Foliation: ff. 1* + 2* + 3* + 108 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves + 2 parchment leaves after f. 2* + at the beginning and at the end). ff. 1*, 2*, 3* are flyleaves.

Script: Gothic cursive.

Binding: British Museum in-house, rebound 1875. Green leather with gold tooling; marbled endpapers.

Custodial History:

Origin:

France, Central (Paris) and England.

Provenance:

Johannes Martyn: his name inscribed in the early 16th century (f. 108v).

Thomas Jordin (Jorden): his name inscribed, in the 16th or 17th century (on a piece of paper pasted onto f. 1*).

Sir Thomas Twysden (Twisden) (b. 1602, d. 1683), 1st baronet, judge, and politician: an inscription in his hand, according to a note in the manuscript by Sir Frederic Madden (pasted onto f. 3*).

Sir Simonds d'Ewes (b.1602, d. 1650), 1st baronet, diarist, antiquary, and friend of Sir Robert Cotton.

Sir Simonds D’Ewes (d. 1722), 3rd baronet and grandson of the former: inherited and later sold the D’Ewes library to Robert Harley on 4 October 1705 for £450. 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 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.

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Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), I (1808), no. 334.

Walter de Gray Birch and Henry Jenner, Early Drawings and Illuminations: An Introduction to the Study of Illustrated Manuscripts (London: Bagster and Sons, 1879), p. 18.

Andrew G. Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes (London: British Museum, 1966), no. A238.

Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 127, 131, 207, 235, 333.

Peter Whitfield, The Mapping of the Heavens (London: British Library, 1995), pl. on p. 49.

Sophie Page, Astrology in Medieval Manuscript (London: British Library, 2002), p. 10, pl. 4.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)