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Harley MS 4481

Record Id:

040-002050319

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002050319

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000807.0x0003d2

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 4481

Title:

Histoire de l'Empereur Charles V; Traicté des Comtes de Flandres et d'Arthois

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-401r: Histoire de l'Empereur Charles V, entitled: 'Ce livre contient aucunes actes grands voiaiges et haultes entreprinses faictes par feu dexcellente et noble memore le victorieux prince Charles daustrice en son vivant Empereur des Romains tousiours auguste cincquiesme de ce nom / Lequel nasquit en sa ville de Gand chief lieu de son bon pays de flandres en lan de grace mil cinq cens et termina a son eaige de cincquante huict ans en ses Roiaulmes des Espaignes qui fut en lan mil cincq cens cincquante huict et gist en son royiaulme de Grenade aupres d'aucuns ses nobles predecesseurs de son coste maternel Roys des dictes espaignes. Dieu luy soit misericors et a tous trespasses. Amen'.

ff. 401v-415r: 'Traicté des Comtes de Flandres et d'Arthois'; left unfinished.

The manuscript contains a later addition:

f. 1*recto: A description of the manuscript in French: 'Ce livre contenant aulcuns Actes et grans voiaiges aveque haults faicts de lEmpereur Charles le quind [etc.]' signed 20 August 1612.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002050319

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 4481 : Histoire de l'Empereur Charles V; Traicté des Comtes de Flandres et d'Arthois

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[4475]/040-002050319

Container:

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

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

French, Middle

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1545

End Date:

1555

Date Range:

c 1550

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: 265 x 200 (text space: 205 x 135 mm).

Foliation: ff. 1* + 416 (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning + 3 at the end); 1 unfoliated but ruled paper leaf after f. 1* and 7 after f. 415; 1 unfoliated parchment stub between f. 416 and f. [417].

Script: Gothic.

Binding: Post-1600; gold-tooled brown speckled leather.

Custodial History:

Origin:

? France.

Provenance:

? Pierre Séguier (b. 1588, d. 1672), chancellor of France from 1635: according to Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 445, but possibly erroneous since no evidence is cited.

? Johann Georg Graevius (b. 1632, d. 1703), may have owned the manuscript: see Clark, 'The Library of J. G. Graevius' (1891), p. 369 no. 15; Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 169.

? Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (b. 1658, d. 1716), owner of a library in Düsseldorf, may have owned the manuscript: bought the entire Graevius library in 1703 (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 168).

Giovanni Giacomo Zamboni (d. 1753), resident in London for the Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (c. 1723-1753), friend of Michael Mattaire, the classical scholar and historian of printing: sold the manuscript to the Harleian Library on 6 August 1724, perhaps as part of the Wilhelm library which he had acquired sometime before 1724 through Johann Büchels (b. 1659, d. 1738), librarian of Johann Wilhelmrary (see Diary, ed. by Wright and Wright (1966), p. 303 n. 7; Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 168).

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 '6 die mensis Augusti, A. D. 1724' (f. [i]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, p. 162.

A. C. Clark, 'The Library of J. G. Graevius', The Classical Review, 5:8 (1891), 365-72 (p. 369 no. 15)

The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by C. E. Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), II: 1723-1726, p. 303 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. 169, 301, 445.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Places:

France