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Harley MS 4497
- Record Id:
- 040-002050335
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002050335
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x00000a
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 4497
- Title:
- Jean de Francières, Livre de fauconnerie
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains a copy of a treatise on falconry, written by the French author and Knight Hospitaller Jean de Francières (b. c. 1400, d. 1488). The text was composed at Rhodes between 1458 and 1469. It is divided into two parts: the first describes the seven different types of falcon; the second provides details of different diseases that affect birds.
Contents:
ff. 2r-69v: Jean de Francières, Livre de fauconnerie (Book of falconry).
The manuscript contains a later addition:
f. 70r: A recipe in French to cure a 'faulcon', entitled 'La recepte de Monsieur le Grand Senechal pour un faulcon degousté'; written in a late-16th or early-17th century hand and copied underneath in an 18th-century hand.
[ff. 1v and 70v are blank].
Decoration:
Large and smaller initials with foliate decoration in grisaille on a gold panel. Line-fillers in blue, red and gold. Some capitals marked in yellow. A few cadels (see especially f. 53v). Catchwords decorated with pen-flourishing: framed by a heart-shape (ff. 17v, 57v), written on a scroll (ff. 25v, 41v, 65v), etc.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002050335", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 4497: Jean de Francières, Livre de fauconnerie" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002050335 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 4497 : Jean de Francières, Livre de fauconnerie - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[4491]/040-002050335
- 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:
- 1500
- End Date:
- 1549
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 16th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 300 x 215 mm (text space: 190 x 115 mm).
Foliation: ff. 70 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 unfoliated ruled parchment leaves after f. 69 + 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end).
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: British Museum in-house. Rebound 28 July 1966. Red half-leather binding with the Harleian armorial bookplate, gold-stamped on the upper and lower covers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: France, N. W. (Normandy).
Provenance:
Seigneurs du Houmet, constables of Normandy and of Hauteville; kept at the Château of Hambye, South-East of Coutances in Normandy until 1704: inscribed '‘Ce manuscrit a été tiré du château d’Hambie le 28 janvier 1704. Cette [...] a été possédée par les seigneurs du Houmet constables de Normandie et de Hauteville’ (f. 1r).
Nicolas Joseph Foucault (b. 1643, d. 1721), marquis de Magny, statesman and archaeologist: his book-plate with the legend 'EX BIBLIOTHECA | NICOLAI JOSEPH FOUCAULT | COMITIS CONSISTORIANI' with his arms [sable] a lion rampant, dexter, crowned [argent], as supporters two lions [argent]; a coronet of a marquis surmounting the shield (f. 1r).
Thomas Ballard, bookseller and book auctioneer in London: included in sale, 20 February 1720/1, lot 60; bought through Nathaniel Noel, bookseller, by Humfrey Wanley (see Diary (1966), I, p. 89 n. 5).
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 ‘23 Februarij 1720/1’ (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.
- Information About Copies:
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Select digital coverage available for this manuscript; see the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts, https://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. 4497.
The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by C. E. Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), I: 1715-1723, p. 89 n. 5.
Rolf Wistedt, 'Le Livre de fauconnerie de Jean de Fransie`res: l'auteur et ses sources', Filologiskt Arkiv, 11 (1967), 1-33 (p. 3).
C. E. Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 62, 155-56, 177, 198.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Ballard, Thomas, bookseller, fl 1690-1725
Foucault, Nicolas Joseph, marquis de Magny, 1643-1721
Jean de Francières, Hospitaller, c. 1400-1488,
see also http://isni.org/isni/000000012280602X,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/59218034 - Places:
- Normandy, France