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Harley MS 1681

Record Id:

040-002047512

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002047512

MDARK:

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LARK:

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Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 1681

Title:

Historical collections of Pierre Du Prat

Scope & Content:

Miscellaneous historical collection of Pierre Du Prat, or Prataeus, author of Le Portrait du Mareschal de Gassion (1664).

f. 1v: Portrait of De Gassion, engraved by Balthasar Moncornet. This may be the print formerly inserted in Harley MS 1589, which is no longer present – see description in A Catalogue of Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum (1808) vol. 2.

f. 2r: Letter from Mess. de Chaalons to M de Chastillon.

ff. 2v-7r: Eulogy on King Charles IX of Sweden, in French with a parallel Latin translation on facing pages, by Pierre Du Prat.

ff. 8r-89r: Extract from writings of the Duc de Rohan. ‘Memoires sur ‘Estat de la France depuis la mort du Roi Henry IV jusques a la derniere Paix faite avec les Protestans de France, sur la fin de Juin 1629’.

ff. 89v-94r: Extract from Simon du Cros’ life of Henry, Duc de Montmorency. ‘Extrait de l’Histoire de la Vie de Henri dernier Duc de Montmorenci, par Simon du Cros’.

ff. 95r-95v: Account of the death of Strafford. ‘Mort du Comte Strafford en Angleterre. 1641’.

ff. 95v-96r: On the Duc de Montmorency.

ff. 96v-1005: ‘La Charité Francoise; par un Gentilhomme Anglois’ by Monsieur (Kenelm?) Digby.

ff. 100r-100v: Extract from the life of François de Bonne, duc de Lesdiguières, constable of France, by Louis Videl.

ff. 101-102: Reception of Marechal de la Face in the prerogative of duke and peer of France, 13 August 1637.

f. 103v: Brief verses and notes.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002047512

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 1681 : Historical collections of Pierre Du Prat

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[1683]/040-002047512

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: 260 x 160 mm.

Foliation: 103 folios.

Binding: Post-1600 quarter leather binding, with marbled paper covered boards.

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. 1681.

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)