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Harley MS 4406

Record Id:

040-002050243

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002050243

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000807.0x000286

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 4406

Title:

Pierre Choisnet, Le Rosier des guerres, and other texts

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-6v: Calendar.

ff. 7r-15v: Prayers to the Virgin Mary, beginning: 'Virgo templum trinitatis deus summe bonitatis et misericordie'.

ff. 15v-16r: Memoria of St Michael the Archangel, beginning: 'Archangele Christi Michael princeps mlicie celestis'.

f. 16v: Prayer to Holy Helper saints, beginning: 'Deus qui sanctorum matrtirum tuorum Dyonisij, Eustachij, Georgij, Christofori, Blasij, Decemque milium martirum Et sanctorum confessorum tuorum Nicholay, Egidii et Exuperij Et sanctarum virginum ac martirium turarum Katharine, Marguerite, Appolonie, Marthe et Barbare, Undecimque milium virginum'

ff. 16v-17r: A poem, beginning: 'Le Roy qui siet ou throne de Justice'.

ff. 17v-18r: A royal order, beginning: 'Loys par la grace de dieu Roy de france nostre tres cher et tres ame filz charles daulphin de viennoys salut'

ff. 18r-18v: A prayer for a king, with the introduction: 'Cum Rex super suis aut Regni sui necoiis nonnulla utilia contemplari vel sui consilii de liberacione actrectate voluerit prius devota mentis intencione sequentum dicat orationem'.

ff. 18v-52r: Instructions for prayers for various occasions, beginning: 'De mensa et hora communii'; including psalms and prayers for confession and communion, feasts of the Temporale, feasts for the Archangels and Apostles, and other saints (including Fiacre of Breuil, Louis of France, and Genevieve of Paris).

f. 52r: A tract in French, beginning: 'Troys choser sont qui sont le Roy Regner et estre Riche et avoir Renommee et benedicion perpetuelle'.

ff. 53v-184r: Pierre Choisnet, Le Rosier des guerres; a treatise made by Royal authority under King Louis XI of France, containing religious instructions for those who defend the kingdom and with a chronicle of French kings, to the year 1471.

ff. 185r-185v: Prayers to the Virgin Mary for the liturgical year, with the introduction: 'Sequntur oraciones beate marie que pro Rege dicuntur qualibet die dominica in Regali missa sancte trinitatis perpetuis temporibus fundata in ecclesia beate marie de monnilla [Monylla] prope Rothomagum Anno domini millesimo CCCC sexagesimo octavo Et admortifata per Liliferum Regem nostrum Ludovicum Anno Millesimo quatercentesimo septuagesimo primo'.

ff. 186r-186v: Poem of the mass for the king, with the introduction 'Sequitur prosa que Indicta missa Regali de monnilla cantatur'; ending: 'Inclitus ludovicus Rex vivat'.

Decoration:

Large (3-line) blue or red initials with gold penwork decoration in frames with grounds of red and blue. Large (2-line) and small (1-line) plain blue and red initials. Paraphs in red.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002050243

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 4406 : Pierre Choisnet, Le Rosier des guerres, and other texts

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[4399]/040-002050243

Container:

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

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

French
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1500

End Date:

1549

Date Range:

1st half of the 16th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 310 x 215 mm (text space: 215 x 135 mm).

Foliation: ff. 186 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 1 unfoliated parchment flyleaf and 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end); 1 unfoliated parchment stub between f. 12 and f. 13.

Collation: Indicated by leaf signatures.

Script: Gothic (Batarde).

Binding: Post-1600: gold-tooled red leather with the arms of gold stamped on the outside covers; with a green silk book ribbon attached; gilt fore edge.

Custodial History:

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 4455, ff. 185-238] (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 225).

The Loménie de Brienne family: sold by the son of Louis Henri de Loménie through the London bookseller James Woodman as lot no. 92 on 18 May 1724 to Edward Harley (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 225).

'Dandenal avocat du Roy', owned in the 17th century: his name inscribed on f. 1r (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 123.

James Woodman (d. 1728), bookseller at Russel St. Covent Garden: handled sale of the sale of Loménie de Brienne on 28 April 1724; acquired from him by Harley and integrated into the Library on 18 May 1724 (see Diary, ed. by Wright and Wright (1966), II, p. 313 n. 6; Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 359).

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 1724’ (f. [ii]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:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), p. 141.

Le rosier des guerres, enseignements de Louis XI roy de France pour le dauphin son fils, ed. by Maurice Diamant Berger (Paris: Bernouard, 1925).

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. 6.

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. 123, 225, 359.

'Pierre Choisnet' in Arlima - Archives de littérature du Moyen Âge [accessed 26 April 2022].

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Choisnet, Pierre, Physician and astrologer of Louis XI of France, c 1411-c 1484,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000062990194

Places:

France