Hard-coded id of currently selected item: . JSON version of its record is available from Blacklight on e.g. ??
Metadata associated with selected item should appear here...
Harley MS 4424
- Record Id:
- 040-002050261
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002050261
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000807.0x000318
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 4424
- Title:
- Enguerrand de Monstrelet, Chronique, with a continuation until 1471
- Scope & Content:
-
This manuscript contains Enguerrand de Monstrelet (b. c. 1400, d. 1453)'s Chronique, a chronicle covering the period from 1400 to 1444 (the latter part of the Hundred Years' War), with a continuation by the 'Monstrelet continuator' until the year 1471.
Contents:
ff. 2r-278r: Enguerrand de Monstrelet, Chronique; with a continuation until 1471.
Decoration:
Large (2-line) and small (1-line) plain initials in blue or red. Rubrics in red. Paraphs in blue or red. Underlining in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002050261", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 4424: Enguerrand de Monstrelet, Chronique, with a continuation until 1471" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002050261 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 4424 : Enguerrand de Monstrelet, Chronique, with a continuation until 1471 - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[4417]/040-002050261
- 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:
- 1470
- End Date:
- 1485
- Date Range:
- c 1475-c 1480
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
Please request the physical items you need using the online collection item request form.
Digitised items can be viewed online by clicking the thumbnail image or digitised content link.
Readers who have registered or renewed their pass since 21 March 2024 can request physical items prior to visiting the Library by completing
this request form.
Please enter the Reference (shelfmark) above on the request form.If your Reader Pass was issued before this date, you will need to visit the Library in London or Yorkshire to renew it before you can request items online. All manuscripts and archives must be consulted at the Library in London.
This catalogue record may describe a collection of items which cannot all be requested together. Please use the hierarchy viewer to navigate to individual items. Some items may be in use or restricted for other reasons. If you would like to check the availability, contact our Reference Services team, quoting the Reference (shelfmark) above.
- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
-
Materials: Paper; parchment (only ff. 12 and 23).
Dimensions: 390 x 280 mm (text space: 260 x 180 mm, in 2 columns).
Foliation: ff. 278 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end); 1 unfoliated blank paper leaf after f. 1; original foliation in Roman numerals in red ink throughout includes the leaf after f. 278 (f. [279]), but has been excluded in the modern foliation.
Collation: Indicated by leaf signatures.
Script: Bâtarde.
Binding: Harleian binding of gold-stamped and -tooled red leather; re-backed at the British Museum. Marbled endpapers.
- Custodial History:
-
Origin:
France.
Provenance:
'Marlur', owned in 1713: his crossed out ownership inscription on f. 1r: 'Ex libris J. B. J. Marlur J. N. L. 1713' (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 234).
Nathaniel Noel (fl. 1681, d. c. 1753), bookseller, employed by Edward Harley for buying books and manuscripts chiefly on the Continent, where his agent was George Suttie: Edward Harley purchased this manuscript on January 18, 1723/4 (see Diary, ed. by Wright and Wright (1966), II, p. 269 n. 7; Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 254).
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 Januarij, A.D. 1723/24’ (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:
-
A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III, p. 143.
L. Doüet-d'Arcq, Chroniques d'Enguerrand de Monstrelet: en deux livres, avec pièces justificatives 1400-1444, 6 vols (Paris: Renouard, 1857-1862).
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. 269 n. 7.
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. 234, 254.
Carolina Theodora Livia Visser-Fuchs, 'Warwick and Wavrin: Two Case Studies on the Literary Background and Propaganda of Anglo-Burgundian Relations in the Yorkist Period' (unpublished doctoral dissertation, University College London, 2002), p. 329.
Hanno Wijsman, 'History in Transition: Enguerrand de Monstrelet's Chronique in Manuscript and Print (c. 1450-c. 1600)', in The Book Triumphant: Print in Transition in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, ed. by Malcolm Walsby and Graeme Kemp, Library of the Written Word, 15; The Hand Press World, 9 (Leiden: Brill, 2011), pp. 199-252 (p. 205 n. 19).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Enguerrand de Monstrelet, French chronicler, c 1400-1453,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000083591336 - Places:
- France