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Harley MS 1589

Record Id:

040-002047419

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002047419

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000709.0x000060

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Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 1589

Title:

Historical and geographical miscellany of Pierre Du Prat

Scope & Content:

Miscellaneous collection of Pierre Du Prat, or Prataeus, author of Le Portrait du Mareschal de Gassion (1664). Includes draft of the life of Maréchal de Gassion (1609-1647), letters, and extracts from published historical and geographical works.

Contents:

ff. 1r-v: Essay ‘La Vaillance’.

f. 1v: The start of a letter, perhaps from Du Prat to the King of France, about Maréchal de Gassion.

f. 2r: Eulogy on Maréchal de Gassion.

f. 2v: Letter from M La Bourlie to M Du Prat. Sedan, 24 June 1666. On the subject of Maréchal de Gassion.

f. 3: Letter from Du Prat to the Marquis de la Bourlie, Governor of Sedan. 15 June 1666.

ff. 4-5r: ‘De la Vaillance Chrestiene’.

f. 5r: Extract from book VI of La Morale Chrestienne, by M. Amyraut.

f. 6: Anagram of the name of Johannes de Gassione, by D. de Montigny, with a Latin epitaph on de Gassion.

f. 6v: Hymn in several stanzas.

ff. 7v-8v: Drafts of two letters from Du Prat to the King about publishing the life of Maréchal de Gassion.

ff. 9-118, f. 129, ff. 131-133: Draft biography of de Gassion. ‘La Vie du Mareschal de Gassion, en trois parties’. With corrections

and insertions. Finished 4 September 1665. Preface and further additions on ff. 129, and 131-133.

ff. 119-120r: Moral poem, beginning ‘Que tardons nous Philandre à chercher une vie’.

ff. 120v-136: Letters in Latin and French from Jean de Gassion, Pierre du Prat and others:

Letter from Jean de Gassion to the King of Denmark. 18 May 1646. Latin (f. 120v).
Letter from Jean de Gassion to Lord Oxenstiern, Swedish Lord High Chancellor. 18 May 1646. Latin (f. 121).
Letter from Du Prat to King Charles II, King of England. Paris, 15 August 1664. Latin (f. 122).
Letter from Du Prat to James Duke of York. 15 August 1663. French (f. 123).
Letters from De Gassion to friends. Latin. Latin (ff. 124-127r).
Letter from M. Aendendet, Pasteur de Bourbourg, to his Royal Highness. 2 August 1645. French (ff. 127r-v).
Letter from M. Desmarets, Kings Counsellor, Treasurer and general director of finances in Soissons. French (f. 128).
Letter probably from Du Prat to the King. French (f. 130).
Letter of the States General to the King of France, proposing a treaty. 10 December 1671. French. Separate item in another hand, inserted here (f. 135).
Letter from M. Spanheim to Maréchal de Gassion. 13 October 1646. French (f. 136).

f. 137: Discourse between divine faith and human reason, ‘Discours entre Divine Foi, et l’Humaine Raison’. Separate item inserted here.

ff. 138-162: Extracts from French published history and travel books. This section starts from the other end of the volume, inverted but is now numbered continuously from left to right, following on from the above folios.

Histoire Naturelle et Morale des Isles Antilles de l’Amerique (ff. 138-140r).
Histoire de la Floride par Bazanier (ff. 140r-v).
Extract from the Natural and Moral History of the Indies, by José de Acosta (ff. 140v-146v).
Extract from the Account of Greenland, sent to Monsieur de la Mothe de Vayer by Isaac de la Peyrere (1646) (ff. 146v-148v).
Extract from History of the Incas, by Garcilaso de la Vega (Paris, 1633) (ff. 149v-161v).

f. 162: Latin inscription from the tomb of Anne de Polignac, Maréchale de Châtillon (1598-1651).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002047419

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 1589 : Historical and geographical miscellany of Pierre Du Prat

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[1590]/040-002047419

Container:

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

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

French
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1640

End Date:

1669

Date Range:

1640s-1660s

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: 215 x 155 mm.

Foliation: 1*, 1-5, 5*, 6-163 folios.

Binding: British Museum in-house binding.

Custodial History:

The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (1661-1724), 1st earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, and Edward Harley (1689-1741), 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 (1694-1755) during her lifetime and thereafter to their daughter, Margaret Cavendish Bentinck (1715-1785), 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.

Former owner: Henry Worsley, Governor of Barbados (d. 1747) (Wright, Fontes Harleiani, p. 360).

Finding Aids:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), II (1808), no. 1589.

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. 360.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Notes:

According to the printed Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, vol. 2 (1808), p. 146, the volume once contained ‘A printed cut of the abovementioned Mareschal de Gassion’, but this was not present when the volume was foliated in 1878. This may be the print now present in Harley MS 1681.