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Harley MS 4400
- Record Id:
- 040-002050237
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002050237
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000807.0x000280
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100174220377.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 4400
- Title:
- Compilations concerning the nobility, magistrates and antiquities of Metz, including Jehan Praillon's Chronique des comtes, des voués et des échevins de Metz
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains compilations written in French, concerning the nobility, magistrates and antiquities of the city of Metz. It includes the Chronique des comtes, des voués et des échevins de Metz, also known as the Chronique de Metz, which records the history of the city between 960 and 1462. The work is attributed to Jehan Praillon (fl. mid-16th century), a writer and clerk, who also served as a secretary at the Palais des Treize in Metz between 1530 and 1549. A second chronicle written by Praillon, known as the Chronique de Praillon, now survives as Bibliothèque multimédia intercommunale (BMI) Epinal-Golbey MS 131.
Contents:
ff. 1r-209v: Compilations in French, concerning the nobility, magistrates and antiquities of Metz, including Jehan Praillon's Chronique des comtes, des voués et des échevins de Metz (ff. 27r-105v).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002050237", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 4400: Compilations concerning the nobility, magistrates and antiquities of Metz, including Jehan Praillon's Chronique des comtes, des voués…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002050237 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 4400 : Compilations concerning the nobility, magistrates and antiquities of Metz, including Jehan Praillon's Chronique des comtes, des… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[4393]/040-002050237
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100174220377.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- French
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1500
- End Date:
- 1599
- Date Range:
- 16th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Paper.
Watermarks: varieties of fleur-de-lis (throughout); a gloved hand, surmounted by a trefoil (ff. 1-5); a unicorn (ff. 6-12), similar to Briquet No. 10045 (C. M. Briquet, Les Filigranes: Dictionnaire historique des marques du papier dès leur apparition vers 1282 jusqu'en 1600, A Facsimile of the 1907 edition with supplementary material, ed. by Allan Stevenson, 4 vols (Amsterdam: The Paper Publications Society, 1968), no. 10045).
Dimensions: 215 x 115 mm (ff. 1-12 only); 300 x 205 (ff. 13-14 only); 290 x 210 mm (ff. 15-209).
Foliation: ff. 209 (+ 5 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and end).
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: Post-1600. Brown leather binding, tooled in gold, with a wreath tooled in gold on the upper and lower covers, and the Harleian arms gold-stamped on the inside upper and lower covers; marbled endpapers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Metz, France.
Provenance:
Pierre Séguier (b. 1588, d. 1672), count of Gien, chancellor of France from 1635, owned the manuscript (see Diary (1966), I, pp. 51 n. 16, 68 n. 1; Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 301).
Andrew Hay (d. 1754), dealer: sold to Edward Harley together with other manuscripts from the Séguier collection on 5 September 1720, as recorded in a note by Frederic Madden (b. 1801, d. 1873), Keeper of Manuscripts at the British Museum, 'This volume was purchased by the Earl of Oxford with many other MSS from the library of Chancellor Séguier, through the mediation of Mr Andrew Hay, at Paris' (f. [v] recto; see also Diary (1966), I, p. 68 n. 1; Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), pp. 182-83).
The manuscript was one of those especially noted by Humfrey Wanley (b. 1672, d. 1726) from Hay's short catalogue of the Séguier collection, where it was recorded as 'Annales de Metz, au l'an 1484. MS. fol. curieux' (see Diary (1966), I, p. 51 n. 16).
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, ‘5 Septembris, 1720’ (f. [v] recto). 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. 4400.
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, pp. 51 n. 16, 68 n. 1.
C. E. Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 182-83, 301.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)