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Harley MS 4379
- Record Id:
- 040-002050216
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002050216
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000807.0x0003db
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 4379
- Title:
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Jean Froissart, Chroniques (the 'Harley Froissart')
- Scope & Content:
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Jean Froissart, Chroniques, volume IV, Part 1 (the 'Harley Froissart'). The Part 2 is Harley MS 4380. Preceded by a table of contents (ff. 1r-1v).
Decoration:
11 large miniatures with large decorated initials and full foliate borders including hybrid figures and birds, in colours and gold (ff. 3r, 23v, 34r, 43r, 60v, 64r, 83v, 99r, 112v, 135v, 146r). 18 small column-wide miniatures with large decorated initials and partial foliate borders including hybrid figures and birds, in colours and gold (ff. 12r, 12v, 19v, 29v, 32v, 36r, 104v, 109v, 113r, 122r, 125v, 126r, 142v, 145r, 152v, 160r, 170v, 182v). Small initials in gold with blue pen-flourishing or in blue with red pen-flourishing. Line fillers decorated in gold and blue. Cadels. Capital letters highlighted in yellow.
The subjects of miniatures are:
f. 3r, Entry of Isabella of Bavaria into Paris.
f. 12r, Lord of Chastel Morant presenting Charles VI with the document of truce with England.
f. 12v, Marriage of Louis of Anjou, king of Naples and Sicily to king Peter of Aragon's daughter.
f. 19v, Joust between Pierre de Courtanay and sire de Clary.
f. 23v, Jousts of St Ingleuerch.
f. 29v, Count of Foix doing homage to Charles Vi of France.
f. 32v, Charles VI leaving Montpellier.
f. 34r, Coronation of pope Boniface IX.
f. 43r, Tournament of St Ingleuerch.
f. 60v, Expedition of the English and the French to Barbary.
f. 64r, Execution of Aymerigot Marcel.
f. 83v, Assault on the strong town of Africa in Barbary.
f. 99r, Knights and ladies riding to the tournament in London.
f. 104v, Retreat from Africa.
f. 109v, English ambassadors received by Charles VI.
f. 112v, Coronation of Henry of Castile.
f. 113r, Expedition of count Jean d'Armagnac to Lombardy.
f. 122r, Pierre de Craon received by the duke of Brittany.
f. 125v, Charles VI meeting the duke of Brittany at Tours.
f. 142v, The count of Blois and his wife Marie de Namur dictating the deed of the sale of the county of Blois.
f. 154r, Rogier d'Espaigne and Espaing of Lyon welcomed at Toulouse.
f. 146r, Charles VI in council at Amiens.
f. 152v, Attack on Olivier de Clisson by the followers of Pierre de Craon.
f. 160r, Charles VI's expedition to Brittany.
f. 170v, The dukes of Berry and Burgundy in council.
f. 182v, Proclamation of the truce between England and France.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002050216", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 4379: Jean Froissart, Chroniques (the 'Harley Froissart')" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002050216 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 4379 : Jean Froissart, Chroniques (the 'Harley Froissart') - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[4372]/040-002050216
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 184 folios.
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Harley_MS_4379 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- French
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1465
- End Date:
- 1472
- Date Range:
- c 1470-1472
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment codex.
Dimensions: 420 x 320 mm (text space: 270 x 195 mm).
Foliation: ff. iii + 184 + iii (all flyleaves are unfoliated parchment leaves).
Script: Gothic hybrid (Bastarda).
Binding: Post-1600 binding of green velvet over wooden boards with brass clasps, one missing, c. 1700; rebacked; gilt edges.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Netherlands, S. (Bruges).
Provenance:
Philippe de Commynes (b. 1447, d. 1511), statesman and chronicler: his added arms, quartered with those of his Flemish mother, Marguerite d'Armuyden (ff. 3r, 12v, 20v, 29v, 32v, 36r, 60v, 83v, 99r, 109v, 135v, 142v, 146r, 160r); he probably acquired the manuscript before 1472, when he transferred his allegiance from Charles the Bold to the rival Louis XI of France (see Kren and McKendrick 2003).
The library at Château d’Anet, with the usual mark (f. 1r).
Anne of Bavaria (b. 1648, d. 1723): her sale, Pierre Gaudouin, Paris, November 1724, lot 44; bought by James Woodman, London bookseller (see Kren and McKendrick 2003).
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. Old Harley shelfmark '127 C 10' (f. ii recto).
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.
- Administrative Context:
- Netherlands, S. (Bruges).
- 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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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: [n. pub.], 1808-12), III, no. 4379.
G. G. Coulton, The Chronicler of European Chivalry (London: Studio, 1930), passim.
Loren MacKinney and Thomas Herndon, Medical Illustrations in Medieval Manuscripts, Wellcome Historical Medical Library, New Series, 5 (London: Wellcome Historical Medical Library, 1965), no. 86.48.
Dorothy Mahoney, The Craft of Calligraphy (London: Pelham Books, 1981), pl. on p. 74.
Laetitia Le Guay, Les princes de Bourgogne, lecteurs de Froissart: Les rapports entre le texte et l’image dans les manuscrits enluminés du livre IV des Chroniques (Paris: CNRS, 1998), pp. 31-34, 173, 180-82.
Boccaccio visualizzato: Narrare per parole e per immagini fra Medioevo e Rinascimento, ed. by Vittore Branca, Biblioteca di Storia dell'arte, 30, 3 vols (Torino: Giulio Einaudi, 1999), III: Opere d'arte d'origine francese, fiamminga, inglese, spagnola, tedesca, p. 242.
Thomas Kren and Scot McKendrick, Illuminating the Renaissance: the Triumph of Flemish Manuscript Painting in Europe (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2003), no. 68, pp. 225-26, 259, 262-63, 286.
Scot McKendrick, Flemish Illuminated Manuscripts 1400-1550 (London: British Library, 2003), figs. 25-26.
Margaret Scott, Medieval Dress & Fashion (London: British Library, 2007), p. 152, pl. 94.
Scot McKendrick, 'The Earliest Reproduction of the Crucifixion of the Parlement de Paris?', in Von Kunst und Temperament, Festschrift zu Ehren Eberhard Königs 60. Geburtstag, ed. by Mara Hofmann and Caroline Zöhl (Turnhout: Brepols, 2007), 177-82, pl. 1.
Joe Flatman, Ships and Shipping in Medieval Manuscripts (London: British Library, 2009), pl. 94.
John Lowden, 'Treasures Known and Unknown in the British Library', Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts Virtual Exhibition, http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/TourKnownC.asp, accessed 27 May 2017.
- Exhibitions:
- The Middle Ages, (online), 26 March 2015-
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)