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Harley MS 1319
- Record Id:
- 040-002047148
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002047148
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x000339
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1319
- Title:
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Jean Creton, Histoire rimée de Richard II (La Prinse et mort du roy Richart)
- Scope & Content:
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La Prinse et mort du roy Richart (ff. 1r-78v).
Added descriptions of the miniatures written in 1767 by Dr Thomas Percy (ff. 79r-80v).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002047148 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 1319 : Jean Creton, Histoire rimée de Richard II (La Prinse et mort du roy Richart) - Contains:
- Harley MS 1319, ff 1r-78v : Jean Creton, Histoire rimée de Richard II (La Prinse et mort du roy Richart)
Harley MS 1319, ff 79r-80v : Descriptions of the miniatures
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- 032-002045828[1319]/040-002047148
- 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_1319 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- French
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1401
- End Date:
- 1767
- Date Range:
- 1401-1767
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment and paper (ff. 79-80 are paper leaves).
Dimensions: 280 x 105 mm (text space: 170 x 80/120 mm).
Foliation: ff. ii + 80 + i (all flyleaves are unfoliated paper leaves).
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: Post-1600 binding of red leather with gold tooling; marbled endpapers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: France (Paris).
Provenance:
Jean de Montaigu (b. 1363, d.1409), son of Charles V of France, half-brother of Charles VI, the superintendent of finances for Charles VI: given by him to his uncle the duke of Berry (see Delisle, Le Cabinet des Manuscrits (1868-81), III, pp. 190-91, no. 252).
John of Valois, Jean, duke of Berry (b.1340, d.1416): included in his inventory of 1413 (see Delisle, Le Cabinet des Manuscrits (1868-81), III, pp. 190-91, no. 252).
Charles du Maine (b. 1414, d. 1472), count of Maine, the third son of Louis II of Anjou and Yolande of Aragon: his ownership inscription and signature 'Charles' (f. 78v); and an inscription reading: 'Hors la librarie de Monsieur le Comte de Maine, com[m]e il appert fo ultimo verso de sa main propre' (f. 1v).
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.
- Information About Copies:
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Full digital coverage available for this manuscript, see Digitised Manuscripts: http/www.bl.uk/manuscripts/.
- Publications:
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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. 11.
Michelle P. Brown, A Guide to Western Historical Scripts from Antiquity to 1600 (London: British Library, 1990), pl. 40.
A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), II (1808), no. 1319.
Pierre Cockshaw, ‘Mentions d'auteur, de copistes, d'enlumineurs et de libraires dans les comptes généraux de l'Etat Bourguignon (1384-1419)’, Scriptorium, 23 (1969), 122-44 [Creton mentioned in no. 20, 50, 61, 69].
[J. Creton], ‘Translation of a French metrical history of the deposition of King Richard the Second with a copy of the original’, ed. and trans. by John Webb, Archaeologia, 20 (1824), 1-442 [a translation of the text].
Léopold Delisle, Le Cabinet des Manuscrits de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 3 vols (Paris: Imprimérie Nationale, 1868-81), III, pp. 190-91, no. 252).
P. W. Dillon, ‘Remarks on the manner of the death of King Richard II’, Archaeologia, 28 (1840), 75-95.
Joe Flatman, Ships and Shipping in Medieval Manuscripts (London: British Library, 2009), pl. 81.
Michel Francisque, Collection de documents inédits sur l'histoire de France: Rapports au Ministre (Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1839), p. 117.
Facsimiles of National Manuscripts in Ireland, ed. by John T. Gilbert, 5 vols (London: H.M.S.O., 1879-84), III, pls. xxxii, xxxiii.
Making and Meaning: The Wilton Diptych, ed. by Dillian Gordon (London: National Gallery, 1993), p. 82, fig. 32 [exhibition catalogue].
Antonia Gransden, Historical Writing in England II c. 1307 to the Early Sixteenth Century (New York: Routledge, 1996), pp. 161, 189 n. 186.
Walter Harris, Hibernica or some antient pieces relating to Ireland (Dublin: W. Williamson, 1757), pp. 23-28.
Anne D. Hedeman, 'Advising France through the Example of England: Visual Narrative in the Livre de la prinse et mort du roy Richart (Harl. MS. 1319)', Electronic British Library Journal (2011), 1-22 [http://www.bl.uk/eblj/2011articles/article7.html]
Maidie Hilmo, Medieval Images, Icons, and IIlustrated English Literary Texts: From the Ruthwell Cross to the Ellesmere Chaucer (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004), p. 183.
Evan J. Jones, 'An Examiniation of the Authorship of The Deposition and Death of Richard II Attributed to Creton', Speculum, 15 (1940), 460-77 (p. 460 n. 4).
Laetitia Le Guay, Les princes de Bourgogne lectures de Froissart: Les rapports entre le texte et l’image dans les manuscrits enluminés du livre IV des 'Croniques' (Paris: CNRS Editions, 1998), p. 197.
Peter Lord, The Visual Culture of Wales: Medieval Vision (Cardiff: University of Wales, 2003), p. 198, fig. 306 [miniature of f. 41v].
Gervase Matthew, The Court of Richard II (London: Murray, 1968), p. 209 and plate opposite p. 164 [with reproductions of ff. 53v, 57].
Millard Meiss and Sharon Off, 'The bookkeeping of Robinet d'Estampes and the chronology of Jean de Berry's Manuscripts', Art Bulletin, 53 (1971), 225-35.
Millard Meiss, with Sharon Off Dunlap Smith and Elizabeth Home Beaton, French Painting in the Time of Jean de Berry: The Limbourgs and Their Contemporaries, 2 vols (London: Thames and Hudson, 1974), I, p. 409.
Eric G. Millar, British Museum Reproductions from Illuminated Manuscripts, Series 4 (London: British Museum, 1928), pl. 33.
J. J. N. Palmer, ‘The Authorship, Date and Historical Value of the French Chronicles on the Lancastrian Revolution’, Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library, 61 (1978-79), 145-81; 398-421 (p. 151 n. 1).
Pamela Porter, Medieval Warfare in Manuscripts (London: British Library, 2000), p. 14.
Pamela Wynn Reeves, 'The Guildhall Chronicles of the Kings of France,' The Guildhall Miscellany, 2 (1953), pp. 3-15 (p. 5 n. 21).
Sharon Dunlap Smith, 'New Themes for the City of God Around 1400: The Illustrations of Raoul de Presles' Translation', Scriptorium, 36 (1982), 68-82 (pp. 77-78).
Lorna. A. Stewart, 'The works of Jehan Creton: a critical edition' (unpublished doctoral thesis, University of Aberdeen, 1979), https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.757604.
Paul Strohm, England’s Empty Throne: Usurpation and the Language of Legitimation, 1399-1422 (New Haven: Yale, 1998), pls 2, 5.
E. Maunde Thompson, 'A contemporary account of the fall of Richard II', Burlington Magazine, 5 (1904), 160-72, 267-70, (pl. 2).
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. 50, 72, 242.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)