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Harley MS 4398
- Record Id:
- 040-002050235
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002050235
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000807.0x00027e
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 4398
- Title:
- Coustumes de Bretaigne, with ordinances of Geoffrey, John and other dukes of Brittany
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-65v: Coustumes de Bretaigne, with ordinances of Geoffrey, John and other dukes of Brittany.
Decoration:
3 large initials in colours and gold with red and black pen-flourishing (ff. 1r, 58r, 65r). Large plain initials in red or blue. Smaller plain initials in red or blue. Rubrics in red. Capitals marked in yellow. Cadels.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002050235", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 4398: Coustumes de Bretaigne, with ordinances of Geoffrey, John and other dukes of Brittany" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002050235 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 4398 : Coustumes de Bretaigne, with ordinances of Geoffrey, John and other dukes of Brittany - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[4391]/040-002050235
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- French, Old
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1425
- End Date:
- 1474
- Date Range:
- 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 290 x 210 mm (written space: 215 x 155 mm) in 2 columns.
Foliation: ff. 65 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 2 at the end).
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: Post-1600. Red leather with gold tooled medallions on upper and lower covers of two lions rampant supporting a coat of arms of Louis Henri de Loménie, comte de Brienne; marbled endpapers; gilt edges.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
France.
Provenance:
Louis Henri de Loménie (b. 1635, d. 1698), comte de Brienne: his armorial binding (a catalogue of his books dated 1656 features in Harley MS 4455, ff. 185r-238r).
The Loménie de Brienne family (index Lomenie de Brienne): sold by the son of Louis Henri de Loménie through the London bookseller James Woodman on 18 May 1724 to Edward Harley, his sale, lot 1206 (see Wright 1972).
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 '18 die Maij, A.D. 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.
- Publications:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), no. 4398.
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, p. 313 n. 11.
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. 225, 358-59.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- France