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Harley MS 4411

Record Id:

040-002050248

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002050248

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000807.0x0002cb

LARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100057738291.0x000001

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 4411

Title:

Le roman de Renard le Contrefait (only the part in prose); excerpts from Les chroniques de Flandre; Les chroniques de Flandre with excerpts of the Grandes chroniques de France; Charles V's response to the schedule sent by Edward III, king of England.

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-44r: Attributed to a former clerk, Le roman de Renard le Contrefait branch II (see: Le Roman de Renard le Contrefait, ed. by Gaston Reynaud and Henri Lemaitre, 2 vols (Paris: Honoré Champion, 1914), I, pp. xiii-xiv and pp. 227-97). It includes only excerpts of the parts in prose that are in a universal history.

ff. 44r-62r: Excerpts from the Chroniques de Flandre.

ff. 62r-66v: Table of contents of the Chroniques de Flandre. Explicit: 'Cy commence listoire des Flandres'.

ff. 67r-175r: Chroniques de Flandre with excerpts of the Grandes chroniques de France, from Charlemagne to 1350.

ff. 176v-184r: Charles V's response to the schedule sent by Edward III, king of England, 21 May 1369. Before an assembly of noble and bourgeois and his council, Charles V, king of France, decided to respond to the schedule sent by Edward III, king of England and to renew hostilities. Beginning: 'Cest la teneur de la bille ou cedulle baillee depar le roy dengleterre ou son conseil aux messagiers dermierement envoies en engleterre par le roy de France'. Ending: 'Par le roy ou son conseil et assemblee tenue a Paris le xxie jour de may de Lan de grace mil .ccc. lxix.'.

Decoration:

28 partial borders with tinted drawings in colours and grisaille and large initials in colours and gold with rinceaux motifs (ff. 1r, 7v, 14r, 24r, 29r, 34r, 39r, 44r, 48r, 51r, 56v, 60v, 71v, 75r, 80v, 90r, 93v, 98r, 103r, 115r, 121r, 126r, 133v, 138, 144v, 150r, 155r, 166v). 2 tinted drawings in colours and grisalle without partial borders (ff. 172r, 175r). Spaces left for miniatures on ff. 109v and 170.

5 partial borders with large initials in colours and gold with rinceaux motifs (ff. 67r, 109v, 170r, 172v, 175v). Blue initials with red penwork decoration or red initials with black penwork decoration. Rubrics in red. Capitals marked in red. Marginal annotations in red. Paraphs in red or blue.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002050248

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 4411 : Le roman de Renard le Contrefait (only the part in prose); excerpts from Les chroniques de Flandre; Les chroniques de Flandre…

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[4404]/040-002050248

Container:

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

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

A parchment codex, 184 folios.

Digitised Content:

https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100057738291.0x000001

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Languages:

French, Middle

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1400

End Date:

1449

Date Range:

1st half of the 15th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: parchment.

Dimensions: 310 x 250 mm (text space: 210 x 190 mm).

Foliation: ff. 184 (+ 1 unfoliated paper and 2 parchment flyleaves at the beginning + 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the end).

Script: Gothic bastarde in two columns.

Binding: Post-1600. Brown leather with gold tooling; gilt edges. The covers of a previous binding are pasted inside the present ones.

Custodial History:

Origin: France.

Provenance:

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.

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Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), II (1808), no. 4411.

Walter de Gray Birch and Henry Jenner, Early Drawings and Illuminations: An Introduction to the Study of Illustrated Manuscripts (London: Bagster and Sons, 1879), p. 13.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)