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Harley MS 4500

Record Id:

040-002050338

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002050338

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x00000d

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 4500

Title:

Collection of French historical papers, including extracts from the work of Jehan Le Feron

Scope & Content:

This composite manuscript consists of various French historical papers produced by different scribes who were working separately at different moments in the 16th century.

Contents:

f. 1r: Untranscribed title inscription for the volume with the date 1565.

ff. 2r-28r: Treaty of Cateau-Cambrésis (1559); written in French in (?) 1565, as suggested by a note with this date on f. 1r].

ff. 29r-63v: Extracts from a volume of the French heraldic scholar Jehan Le Feron (b. 1504, d. 1570), entitled: 'Extraict du Livre de Mr Jehan le Feron des armoiries des Comtes de France'; from the years 562 until 1555.

ff. 63v-66v: 'Noms et Surnoms des admiraulx de france'; from the years 1284 to 1552.

ff. 66v-75r: 'Noms et Surnoms des Mareschaulx de France'; from the years 653 to 1554.

ff. 76r-83v: 'Noms des Prevosts et Guardes de Parys'; from 1269 to 1553.

ff. 84r-90r: 'Abbregé de Contes de Boulogne de Dauvergne'.

ff. 91v-113r: Miscellaneous historical papers in French.

ff. 113v-126r: 'Notable Calendrier'.

ff. 126v-133v: Miscellaneous historical papers in French and Latin.

ff. 134r-152v: 'Copie du proces extraordinaire contre l'amirale Degmont'.

ff. 153r-280v: Miracles and historical accounts relating to the abbey of St Martin of Tournai, written in French by different hands.

ff. 281r-301v: 'Extraict d'un manuscript de l'an 1478 pasques le 22 de Mars. Parlement tenu a la Basseé entre les Ambassadeurs et Commis du Roy, et dei Ducs et Ducesses d'Austriche ou sont contenus les argumens, demandes, allegations, et responces, que feirent ses dicts Ambassadeurs, les uns aux autres, demonstrans le droict que chachune partie pretendoit en la Duché du Burgogne et payns environ'.

f. 302v: Latin poem, entitled: 'In choreas', beginning: 'Ecce choros chytarae strepitus ciel'; attributed to 'Antonius garnier Biruntinus'.

ff. 303r-311r: 'Discours de M. Mathieu Chalien, Docteur en Theologie, Professeur et Chancelier de L'universite de Douay, sur le faict des danses de ce temps, prononcé en forme de Catheceses en faveur des Estudians'. ff. 312v-313v: A treatise, entitled: 'Dominica Quinquagesima'.

ff. 314r-333r: 'Le Demesne du droit du Bourgogne, Flandres, et Artoys'.

ff. 334r-346v: Transactions and treaties between the Kings of France and the Dukes of Burgundy.

ff. 347r-364r: Alphabetical list of the names of criminals with annotations, apparently by a judge, in parallel columns.

ff. 365r-375v: 'Advis donné par ung vieux Cavailler Francois a le Monseigneur le Duc d'Orleans, frere unicque du Roy, sur Lestat des affaires presentes'.

ff. 376r-407v: Account of Francis I about the year 1515; imperfect at the beginning and end.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002050338

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 4500 : Collection of French historical papers, including extracts from the work of Jehan Le Feron

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[4494]/040-002050338

Container:

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

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

French
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1500

End Date:

1599

Date Range:

16th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: Leaves of varying sizes that have been mounted to fit a volume measuring 325 x 240 mm.

Foliation: ff. 407 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end); f. 364 is a small paper strip.

Collation: Each leaf has been mounted separately onto a paper guard.

Script: 16th-century script.

Binding: British Museum in-house; gold-tooled purple half leather with the Harleian arms gold stamped on the outside covers; marbled endleaves.

Custodial History:

Origin:

France.

Provenance:

Pierre Séguier (b. 1588, d. 1672), chancellor of France from 1635 (see Diary, ed. by Wright and Wright (1966), I, p. 68 n. 1; Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 301).

Andrew Hay (d. 1754?), book dealer: sold together with other manuscripts from the Séguier collection on 5 September 1720 (Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 183).

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 ‘5 Septembris, 1720’ (f. 1r), and '18 die Januarij, A. D. 1723/4' (f. 153r).

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 (1808), p. 164.

The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by Cyril Ernest Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), I: 1715-1723, p. 68 n. 1.

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. 183, 301.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Places:

France