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Harley MS 3992
- Record Id:
- 040-002049829
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002049829
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000807.0x0001f8
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100057738127.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3992
- Title:
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Jacques de Longuyon, Les Voeux du Paon
- Scope & Content:
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The manuscript includes Les Voeux du Paon composed in 1312 by Jacques de Longuyon for Tibaut de Bar, bishop of Liege; imperfect: following verses are missing: 1-980; 2560-2833; 6967-7080; 7248-8784; incipit: 'Oncles dist gadifer se vostre conseil niere'; explicit: 'Si grant quil li fance et percha la baneire'.
Decoration:
Initials in blue or red. Space left for two miniatures (ff. 34v, 45v).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002049829", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 3992: Jacques de Longuyon, Les Voeux du Paon" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002049829 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3992 : Jacques de Longuyon, Les Voeux du Paon - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[3985]/040-002049829
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100057738127.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- French, Old
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1330
- End Date:
- 1370
- Date Range:
- Mid 14th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 225 x 150 mm (text space: 160 x 100 mm).
Foliation: ff. 96 + i* + ii* (+ 8 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves: 4 at the beginning and 4 at the end; ff. i*-ii* are modern paper flyleaves). Catchwords and quires signatures.
Script: Gothic.
Binding: British Museum/Bristish Library binding. Rebound in 1967.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: France (Lorraine).
Provenance:
The hospital of St Nicholas in Cues, on the Mosel in Germany: ownership inscription, 2nd half of the 15th century, 'Liber hospit[alis] sancti Nicolai p[ro]pe cusa[m]' (f. 1r).
Nathaniel Noel (fl. 1681, d. c. 1753), bookseller, employed by Edward Harley for buying books and manuscripts chiefly on the Continent, where his agent was George Suttie: probably purchased from him for the Harley collection (see Wright 1972).
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:
- France (Lorraine).
- Publications:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-1812), III (1808), no. 3992.
H. L. D. Ward and J. A. Herbert, Catalogue of Romances in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum, 3 vols (London: British Museum, 1883-1910), I (1893), pp. 154-55.
J.J. Salverda de Grave, 'Un manuscrit inconnu des Voeux du Paon', Studi Medievali, 1 (1928), 422-37 (pp. 424-25).
The Buik of Alexander of Alexander or the Buik of the Most Noble and Valiant Conquerour Alexander the Grit, ed. by R. L. Graeme Ritchie (Edinburgh and London: Blackwood, 1921-1929) [edition of the text].
Robert Alexander V Magill, 'Part I of the "Voeux du Paon" by Jacques de Longuyon: An Edition of Manuscripts S, S1, S2, S3, S4, S5, and S6' (Unpublished Ph.D dissertation, Columbia University, New York, 1964) [edition of the text: manuscript S2].
C. E. Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 121, 254.
[H. Spilling] 'Kritisches Verzeichnis der Londoner Handschriften aus dem Besitz des Nikolaus von Kues', Mitteilungen und Forschungsbeiträge der Cusanus-Gesellschaft 12 (1977), 15-71 (pp. 60-62).
Hermann J. Hallauer, 'Habent sua fata libelli. Von der Mosel zur Themse: Handschriften des St. Nikolaus-Hospitals in der Bibliotheca Harleiana', Mitteilungen und Forschungsbeiträge der Cusanus-Gesellshaft, 17 (1986), 21-56 (p. 43).
Keith Busby, Codex and Context. Reading Old French Verse Narrative in Manuscript, 2 vols (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2002), II, p. 540.
Catherine Gaullier-Bougassas, 'Les Voeux du paon, une grande oeuvre a succes de la fin du Moyen Age', in Les Voeux du paon de Jacques de Longuyon: originalité et rayonnement, ed. by Catherine Gaullier-Bougassas (Paris: Klincksieck, 2011), pp. 7-32 (p. 8, n. 4).
Domenic Leo, Images, texts, and marginalia in a 'Vows of the Peacock' manuscript (New York, Pierpont Morgan Library MS G24): with a complete concordance and catalogue of Peacock Manuscripts (Leiden: Brill, 2013), pp 231-32.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)