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Harley MS 4393
- Record Id:
- 040-002050230
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002050230
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000807.0x000279
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 4393
- Title:
- Explication des actes des apôtres
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 2v-157r: Explication des actes des apôtres.
The manuscript contains a few later additions:
f. 1r: A title inscription: 'Explication des actes des apostres en forme de paraphrase'; added in a 16th-century hand.
f. 1v: A summary description of the manuscript; added in the (?) 17th century.
Decoration:
2 full-page miniatures in architectural frames, with large decorated initials and full strew borders including heraldic arms in the lower margins on the following page, in colours and gold (ff. 2v, 6v). Artists in the style of Jean Pichore. Large decorated initials, in colours and gold, for chapters. Line fillers decorated in gold on red or blue grounds.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002050230", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 4393: Explication des actes des apôtres" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002050230 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 4393 : Explication des actes des apôtres - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[4386]/040-002050230
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- French
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1531
- End Date:
- 1543
- Date Range:
- 1531-1543
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Letter of introduction required to view this manuscript
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 295 x 210 mm (text space: 210 x 135 mm).
Foliation: ff. 157 (+ 1 paper flyleaf at the end); f. 1 is a medieval parchment flyleaf.
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: British Museum in-house. Diced brown calf; edges gilt and painted in red and blue.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
France, Central (Paris).
Provenance:
Jean de Laval (b. 1487, d. 1543), baron de Chateaubriant: his arms, gules semé of fleur de lys or, and those of his wife, Françoise de Foix (ff. 2v-3, 6v), and rubric 'A tres illustre et puissant seigneur Mon seigneur Jehan de Laval Sire de Chasteaubrient son treshumble et tresoblige religieux. Charles Pineau. Salut.' (f. 3r). The dating of the manuscript, 1531-1543, is based on the heraldry on f. 2v; the two coats of arms of Jean de Lanval, one on the left window pane and one on his seat, are surrounded by the chain of the order of St Michel, and surmounted by a crown. Jean de Laval received the order of St Michel in 1531 or 1532 and died on 11 February 1543 (for this information we thank Christian Bouvet).
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.
- Publications:
-
A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III, p. 140.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- Paris, France