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Harley MS 4805
- Record Id:
- 040-002050648
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002050648
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x000143
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 4805
- Title:
- Diplomatic correspondence and treaties between France and the Ottoman Empire; the capitulations of the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands to France
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
f. [1a]recto (parchment pastedown): A title inscription: '[…] conservant les affaires de Turgaie'.
ff. 1*r-103v: Collection of letters and documents, chiefly containing correspondence and treaties between the kings of France and the sultans of the Ottoman Empire, written in French, Italian and Latin, assembled and partially translated by Gilles de Noailles (b. 1524, d. 1600), French Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire from 1575 to 1579; preceded by an introduction (f. 1*recto) and table of contents (ff. 2*recto-3*recto).
ff. 104r-108r: Copy of the capitulations of the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands to France, written in French; dated 1612.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002050648 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 4805 : Diplomatic correspondence and treaties between France and the Ottoman Empire; the capitulations of the Republic of the Seven… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[4804]/040-002050648
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- French
Italian
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1575
- End Date:
- 1624
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 300 x 210 mm (text space: 260 x 170 mm).
Foliation: ff. 1*-3* + 108 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end); ff. 1*-3* are paper leaves; 2 unfoliated blank paper leaves between f. 3* and f. 1; 43 blank paper leaves after f. 108 that bear folio numbers, but are now excluded from the foliation, as indicated by a the modern foliation note in pencil on f. [109]recto; 1 unfoliated parchment pastedown on f. 1*recto; and 1 unfoliated paper pastedown on f. [142]verso (conservation notes).
Collation: Each quire has been mounted separately onto a paper guard.
Script: 16th- or 17th-century script.
Binding: British Museum in-house: brown half leather with the Harleian arms gold stamped on the outside covers.
- Custodial History:
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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.
- 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), p. 206.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Giles de Noailles, French Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, 1524-1600,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000378364253 - Places:
- France