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Harley MS 4410
- Record Id:
- 040-002050247
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002050247
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000807.0x00028a
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 4410
- Title:
- Christine de Pizan, Le Livre du corps de policie
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-68v: Christine de Pizan, Le Livre du corps de policie. The first rubric reads, 'Cy commence le livre du corps de policie le quel parle de vertu et de meurs: et est parti le dit livre en trois parties. La premiere partie sadrece aux princes, la seconde aux chevaliers et nobles, et la tierce a luniversitè de tout le peuple'.
This manuscript is one of three sister-texts of Le livre du corps de policie, the others being Paris, Bibliotheque nationale de France, ms. fr. 12439, which belonged to Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, and Brussels, Bibliotheque Royale, MS 10440 (Tieman Hoche, ‘Interrogating Boundaries' (2003), p. 36).
Decoration:
Large foliate initials in colours and gold (ff. 1r, 34v, 55v). Small initials in gold on pink and blue grounds throughout. A full border in colours and gold with rinceaux, knotwork and floral motifs (f. 1r). Partial borders in colours and gold with rinceaux, knotwork and floral motifs (ff. 34v, 55v). Rubrics and paraphs in red. Cadels. Capitals marked in red. Added manicules.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002050247", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 4410: Christine de Pizan, Le Livre du corps de policie" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002050247 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 4410 : Christine de Pizan, Le Livre du corps de policie - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[4403]/040-002050247
- 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:
- 1400
- End Date:
- 1424
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 310 x 220 mm (text space: 200 x 140 mm, in two columns).
Foliation: ff. 1* + 72 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end); f. 1* is a 17th/18th-century inserted paper leaf; ff. 69-72 are blank, ruled parchment leaves (the latter is a former pastedown).
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: Post-1600. Mottled brown leather with gold tooling.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
France or Southern Netherlands, in modern-day Belgium.
Provenance:
An inserted paper leaf inscribed with a brief biographical sketch of Pizan and a list of her works in a 17th-century hand (f. 1*).
Added designs in pencil (lower margins of ff. 40r-41r).
An erased ownership inscription, dated 1607: 'Duc...', with the motto 'Concordia res parve crescunt / Discordia res magne pereunt' (f. 69r).
An inscription: 'accordent his pueris cum aliis' (f. 70v).
A partly erased inscription: '...apertus et per Consil ... B(?)alan admissus' (f. 71r).
Added inscriptions, including one referring to 'Bra(in)e Laleux' (Braine-l’Alleud in Belgium?), with a monogram 'M' (f. 72r).
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.
- Information About Copies:
- Select digital coverage: Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts, http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/
- 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. 4410.
Edith Yenal, Christine de Pisan: A Bibliography of Writings by Her and about Her (Metuchen, N.J., and London: Scarecrow Press, 1989), p. 66.
Dominique Tieman Hoche, ‘Interrogating Boundaries: Christine de Pizan and her influence in late medieval and early modern England’ (unpublished doctoral thesis, Michigan State University, 2003), p. 36.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Christine de Pizan [da Pizzano], 1364-c 1430,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121033731