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Harley MS 4380
- Record Id:
- 040-002050217
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002050217
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000807.0x0003dc
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100173573416.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 4380
- Title:
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Jean Froissart, Chroniques (the 'Harley Froissart')
- Scope & Content:
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Jean Froissart, Chroniques, Volume IV, Part 2 (the 'Harley Froissart'). Part 1 is Harley MS 4379.
Decoration:
12 large miniatures with large decorated initials and full foliate borders including hybrid figures and birds, in colours and gold (ff. 1r, 10v, 40r, 58v, 84r, 89r, 117r, 134r, 148r, 172v, 184v, 186v). 39 small column-wide miniatures with large decorated initials and partial foliate borders including hybrid figures, animals and birds, in colours and gold (ff. 4r, 6r, 18v, 20r, 21r, 22r, 23r, 27r, 34v, 43r, 48r, 49r, 54r, 60v, 62r, 98r, 105r, 106r, 108r, 118r, 124v, 131v, 138v, 141r, 149r, 151r, 152v, 160r, 163r, 166v, 170r, 174v, 177r, 178r, 181v, 189v, 193v, 196v, 197v). 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.
This is the eponymous manuscript of the Master of the Harley Froissart, illuminated in collaboration with the Master of the Vienna Chroniques d'Angleterre.
The subjects of the miniatures are:
f. 1r, Bal des Ardents (ball of the burning wodewoses).
f. 4r, Pope Boniface IX sending an envoy to Charles VI of France.
f. 6r, Marriage of Philipe d'Artois to Marie, daughter of the Duke of Berry.
f. 10v, Treaty between France and England being made.
f. 18v, Death of Pope Clement VII of Avignon.
f. 20r, John de Warenne preaching.
f. 21r, Richard II giving the Duchy of Aquitaine to the duke of Lancaster.
f. 22r, Death of Anne of Bohemia.
f. 23r, Froissart presenting his book to Richard II.
f. 27r, The duke of Lancaster with his troops.
f. 34v, Richard II's troops in Ireland.
f. 40r, Charles VI receiving envoys from England.
f. 43r, Robert the Hermit returning to France from the diplomatic mission to England.
f. 48r, John de la Riviere and John le Mercier released from prison.
f. 49r, The duke of Brittany and Olivier de Clisson making peace.
f. 54r, The king of Hungary sending a letter to the king of France.
f. 58v, William of Hainault setting out on an expedition against Friesland.
f. 60v, Parliament of Paris.
f. 62r, Agreement regarding the marriage between Richard II and Isabella of France.
f. 84r, The king of Hungary in council.
f. 89r, Meeting of Richard II and Isabella of France.
f. 98r, Charles VI of France receiving a letter regarding the battle with the Turks (the battle of Nicopolis).
f. 105r, Duchess of Orleans leaving Paris.
f. 106r, The duke of Burgundy and his wife receiving information about the capture of their son, count of Nevers.
f. 108r, The duke of Gloucester plotting against Richard II.
f. 117r, The duke of Gloucester receiving Richard II at the Castle of Pleshey.
f. 118r, Sultan Bajazet receiving the ransom for the Comte de Nevers.
f. 124v, Sultan Bajazet releasing the prisoners.
f. 131v, The prisoners returning to France.
f. 134r, Arrest of Thomas of Woodstock, duke of Gloucester.
f. 138v, Assembly of prelates and others at Rheims.
f. 141r, Earl Marshall challenging the earl of Derby by flinging down his glove before him.
f. 148r, Richard II of England banishing the earl Marshall and the earl of Derby.
f. 149r, The earl of Derby embarking a ship to France.
f. 151r, The earl of Derby arriving to the castle of William of Hainault.
f. 152v, Meeting at Rheims of Charles VI and the Emperor Wenceslas.
f. 160r, The duke of Lancaster sending a letter to the earl of Derby.
f. 163r, Richard II receiving a letter.
f. 166v, Richard II setting out on an expedition to Ireland.
f. 170r, Archbishop of Canterbury meeting the earl of Derby (?).
f. 172v, Earl of Derby and the Duke of Brittany.
f. 174v, Londoners welcoming the Earl of Derby.
f. 177r, Richard II riding to the Castle of Flint.
f. 178r, Richard II surrendering to the earl of Derby.
f. 181v, Richard II being placed in the Tower of London.
f. 184v, Richard II resigning his crown.
f. 186v, Coronation of Henry IV.
f. 189v, Landing of the Dame de Courcy at Boulogne.
f. 193v, Beheading of Richard II's partisans.
f. 196v, Charles VI of France leaving with his army on expedition to Calais.
f. 197v, Funeral of Richard II.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002050217", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 4380: Jean Froissart, Chroniques (the 'Harley Froissart')" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002050217 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 4380 : Jean Froissart, Chroniques (the 'Harley Froissart') - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[4373]/040-002050217
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100173573416.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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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.
Dimensions: 420 × 320 mm (text space: 270 × 195 mm).
Foliation: ff. 200 (+ 3 parchment and 1 paper flyleaves at the beginning and 3 at the end).
Script: Gothic hybrid (Bastarda).
Binding: Post-1600. Green velvet over wooden boards with brass clasps, two missing, c. 1700; rebacked; gilt edges.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Southern Netherlands (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. 1r, 6r, 10v, 27r, 40r, 62r, 84r, 89r, 134r, 172v, 196v); he probably acquired the manuscript before 1472, when he transferred his allegiance from Charles the Bold to Louis XI of France (see Kren and McKendrick 2003).
The library at Château d’Anet, with the usual mark (Harley MS 1379, 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.
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.
- Information About Copies:
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- 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.
Catherine Reynolds, ‘Makers of Royal Manuscripts: Court Artists in France and the Netherlands’, in 1000 Years of Royal Books and Manuscripts, ed. by Kathleen Doyle and Scot McKendrick (London: The British Library, 2013), pp. 131-48 (p. 146).
Scot McKendrick, ‘The Manuscripts of Edward IV: The Documentary Evidence’, in 1000 Years of Royal Books and Manuscripts, ed. by Kathleen Doyle and Scot McKendrick (London: The British Library, 2013), pp. 149-77 (pp. 151-52, 160, 165, 173).
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.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)