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Harley MS 1310
- Record Id:
- 040-002047139
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002047139
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x000330
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1310
- Title:
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Jacques Legrand, Le livre des bonnes moeurs
- Scope & Content:
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The manuscript includes:
ff. 1r-80v: Jacques Legrand, Le livre des bonnes moeurs, incipit: 'Tous orguilleux se veulent a dieu comparer.'
ff. 81r-85v: A treatise on confession, incipit: 'Qui se veult mettre de lestat de peche en lestat de grace et de salut.'
ff. 86r-88v: A treatise on the 'Good Death', incipit: 'Se le vrais amis du maladefont grande diligence envers lui.'
ff. 88v-89v: Lists of Ten Commandments, Seven Virtues, Seven Gifts of the Holly Spirit, Seven Blessings, Seven Works of Bodily and Spiritual Mercy, Seven Sacraments, Seven Duties of Glory, and a short text on the souls condemned to hell, incipit: 'estre en lieu tres horible.'
Decoration:
1 half-page miniature of the Last Judgement with a large decorated initial and full foliate borders including two angels supporting heraldic arms in the lower margin, in colours and gold, at the beginning of the livre des bonnes moeurs (f. 1r). 2 small column-wide miniatures of a man confessing (f. 81r) and of a dying man being assited by a priest (f. 86r), with large decorated initials and three-sided column-wide foliate borders, in colours and gold, at the beginning of the treatises on confession and 'Good Death'. Smaller initials in gold on red and blue grounds, for chapter divisions. Paraph marks in plain red or blue. Capital letters highlighted in yellow.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002047139", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 1310: Jacques Legrand, Le livre des bonnes moeurs" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002047139 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 1310 : Jacques Legrand, Le livre des bonnes moeurs - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[1310]/040-002047139
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- French
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1445
- End Date:
- 1465
- Date Range:
- c 1450-c 1460
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 255 x 190 mm (text space: 180 x 130 mm).
Foliation: ff. 89 (+ 6 unfoliated paper flyleaves: 3 at the beginning and 3 at the end; and 1 medieval parchment flyleaf at the end). Added alphabetical quire signatures of capital letters B-L, on the first page of quires.
Script: Gothic.
Binding: Post-1600. Parchment binding with black tooling over pasteboards, 17th? century; with red speckled edges.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Southern Netherlands.
Provenance:
The arms of Cleves and Mark with an escutcheon bearing quarterly, 1 and 4 azure, a single fleur-de-lis or; 2 and 3 Burgundy ancient over all Flanders, and the same arms impaled with Burgundy differentiated by a border (?): perhaps for Adolf of Cleves (b. 1425, d. 1492), lord of Ravenstein, and his second wife Anne of Burgundy (b. 1430, d. 1508), natural daughter of Philip the Good, married in 1453 (f. 1r) (For Adolf of Cleves's arms, see John Woodward and George Burnett, A Treatise on Heraldry British and Foreign: with English and French Glossaries, 2 vols (Edinbourgh, 1892), II, p. 485).
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.
- Administrative Context:
- Southern Netherlands.
- Information About Copies:
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Select digital coverage available for this manuscript, see the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/welcome.htm.
- Publications:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: 1808-1812), II, no. 1310.
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. 17.
John Lowden, 'Treasures Known and Unknown in the British Library', Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts Virtual Exhibition, http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/TourKnownC.asp, accessed 27 May 2017.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Bentinck, Margaret Cavendish, duchess of Portland, née Harley, collector of art and natural history specimens and patron of arts and sciences, 11 Feb 1715-17 Jul 1785,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000115857160,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/2356861
Harley, Edward, second earl of Oxford and Mortimer, book collector and patron of the arts, 2 Jun 1689-16 Jun 1741,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000108078249,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/160524259
Harley, Henrietta Cavendish, Countess of Oxford and Mortimer, née Holles, patron of architecture, 4 Feb 1694-9 Dec 1755,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000030125833,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/6045563
Harley, Robert, first Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, 5 Dec 1661-21 May 1724,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000083423906