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Harley MS 4386

Record Id:

040-002050223

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002050223

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000807.0x0003e2

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 4386

Title:

Henry Suso, L'Orloge de sapience (translation attributed to Jehan de Souhaube)

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 2r-162v: L'Orloge de sapience, a French translation of Henry Suso’s Horologium Sapientiae attributed to Jehan de Souhaube, a Franciscan friar, in 1389.

The manuscript contains a later addition:

ff. [i]verso-1v, 163r-164r: household notes in French; added to blank leaves in the 17th century or taken from a 17th-century account book.

Decoration:

Small miniature in colours and gold of the translator of the Horologium kneeling in prayer before the Virgin and angels, and large initial in colours and gold combined with a full foliate bar border with ivy (f. 2r). Initials in red or blue with pen-flourishing in the other colour. Paraphs in red or blue. Capitals marked with yellow (some larger with brown penwork decoration, e.g., ff. 136r, 162r). Catchwords with flourishing in brown ink.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002050223

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 4386 : Henry Suso, L'Orloge de sapience (translation attributed to Jehan de Souhaube)

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[4379]/040-002050223

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

French, Middle

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1400

End Date:

1424

Date Range:

1st quarter of the 15th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 290 x 215 mm (text space: 200 x 140, in 2 columns).

Foliation: ff. 162; 1 unfoliated parchment leaf pasted on the inside of the upper cover (f. [i]); 1 unfoliated parchment leaf after ff. 1 and 162; f. 164 is a parchment leaf pasted to the inside of the lower cover; ff. [i]-1, and 163-164 may be parchment leaves from a 16th-century account book.

Collation: Mainly in quires of 8. Catchwords written horizontally.

Script: Gothic cursive.

Binding: Post-1600. Speckled parchment over boards.

Custodial History:

Origin:

France, ? Central (? Paris).

Provenance:

Jehan Dubois, 15th century: his ownership inscription on f. 162r: 'Ce livre est a Jehan dubois seigneur de fontaines' (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 139).

An unknown (?) 15th-century owner: perhaps their ownership note in an erased inscription on f. 162r.

Jacques Poirier, physician, of Amboise and Tours, owned in 1683: his ownership inscription on f. 2r: 'J. du Poirier d. med. à Tours 1683' (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 277).

Nicholas Joseph Foucault (b. 1643, d. 1721), marquis de Magny, statesman and archaeologist: his book-plate with the legend 'EX BIBLIOTHECA | NICOLAI JOSEPH FOUCAULT | COMITIS CONSISTORIANI' with his arms pasted on the inside of the upper cover: [sable] a lion rampant, dexter, crowned [argent], as supporters two lions [argent]; a couronne de marquis surmounting the shield (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 155).

Thomas Ballard, bookseller and book auctioneer in London; his sale, 20 February 1720/21, lot 66, bought for Edward Harley through Nathaniel Noel (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 62).

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 '23 Februarij 1720/21' (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.

Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), p. 139.

The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by Cyril Ernest Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), I: 1715-1723, p. 95 n. 2.

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. 62, 139, 155, 277.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Suso, Henricus, Dominican mystic

Places:

Central France
France
Paris, France