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Harley MS 4185

Record Id:
040-002050022
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
040-002050022
MDARK:
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LARK:
SLARK:
Format:
ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4185
Title:
Lazare François Dagobert, Collection of poems in praise of Charles II
Scope & Content:

This manuscript is an autograph copy of a collection of poems written in praise of King Charles II (r. 1660–1685). The volume was written and decorated by Lazare François Dagobert, a French writing master who was journeying in England at the time of its composition. Dagobert produced a similar collection in 1682 for King Louis XIV of France (r. 1643–1715), now Rouen, Bibliothèque Municipale, Leber MS 5783.

Contents:

ff. 1r-22v: Lazare François Dagobert, Collection of poems in praise of Charles II.

Decoration:

The arms of Charles II in colours and gold (f. 2r). Title-page with title and full frame in gold and initial in gold with foliate decoration in gold and colours (f. 3r). Miniatures representing a hand holding a bunch of hearts (f. 8r), and a candle and a globe (f. 16r). Full and partial frames with penwork decoration in gold, colours or black. Text partially in gold and colours. Knot-like decoration and tables formed by words (ff. 12r, 20r, 21r).

Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Harley Collection
Hierarchy Tree:
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Hierarchy Record Ids:
032-002045828
040-002050022
Is part of:
Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

 

Harley MS 4185 : Lazare François Dagobert, Collection of poems in praise of Charles II
Hierarchy:
032-002045828[4178]/040-002050022
Container:
View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
Record Type (Level):
File
Extent:
1 volume
Digitised Content:
Languages:
English
Latin
Scripts:
Latin
Start Date:
1683
End Date:
1683
Date Range:
October 1683
Era:
CE
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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Paper.

Dimensions: 365 x 235 mm.

Foliation: ff. 22 (+ 2 unfoliated early modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and the end).

Script: Humanistic (formal and cursive).

Binding: Post-1600. 18th-century quarter binding of brown calf-skin with decorated paper covers; marbled endpapers.

Custodial History:

Origin: England, S. E. (probably London).

Provenance:

Written and decorated in October 1683 for presentation to Charles II by Lazare François Dagobert, a French writing master journeying in England: his initials and date (f. 20r; see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), pp. 122-23).

? Charles II, king of England (b. 1630, d. 1685): possibly presented to him in October 1683 (Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 102).

The note of a price: '0 : 10: 6' (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: sold to Edward Harley on 13 August 1724 (Diary (1966), pp. 304-05 n. 7); Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 255).

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, inscribed as usual by their librarian, Humfrey Wanley, ‘13 August 1724’ (f. 1r). 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.

Information About Copies:

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Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), no. 4185.

The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by Cyril Ernest Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), II: 1723-1726, pp. 304-05 n. 7.

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. 102, 122-23, 255, 441.

Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Charles II, King of England, Scotland and Ireland, 1630-1685
Dagobert, Lazare François, French poet, fl. 1682-1683
Noel, Nathaniel, bookseller, fl 1681, d c 1753
Places:
London, England