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Harley MS 4854
- Record Id:
- 040-002050697
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002050697
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x000174
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 4854
- Title:
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Roman de Ponthus et Sidoine
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
Le Roman de Ponthus (or Pontus) et Sidoine, a prose romance from western France, adapted from the French version of the Anglo-Norman romance, King Horn. The text, beginning, 'Conter veue une noble istoire ou lon pourra apprandre' consists of 47 chapters. It tells the story of Pontus, the son of King Thibor of Galicia, his exploits in Brittany and of the daughter of the King of Brittany, Sidoine. The roman survives in 28 manuscripts, all from the 15th century, including Royal MS 15 E VI. The text in this manuscript is closest to Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, MS 5035.
Decoration:
A full-page decoration consisting of triangles and a rectangle in dark and light brown (f. 121r). A large decorated initial 'S' in dark and light brown and display script in dark and light brown at the beginning of the colophon (f. 120v). Rubrics in large script with light brown highlighting.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002050697", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 4854: Roman de Ponthus et Sidoine" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002050697 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 4854 : Roman de Ponthus et Sidoine - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[4853]/040-002050697
- 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:
- 1467
- End Date:
- 1467
- Date Range:
- 1467
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
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Letter of introduction required to use this manuscript.
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 250 x 200mm (text space: 205 x 105mm).
Foliation: ff. 121 (+ 5 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 5 at the end).
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: Post-1600. Brown leather with gold tooling and the Harley arms.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
France.
Provenance:
Monseigneur de Saint Chaulmont, 'noble et puissant seigneur': the colophon on f. 120v states that this book was copied for him by the scribe, P. Bosco (?) on 20 September, 1467. Watermarks are similar to C. M. Briquet, Les Filigranes: Distionnaire historique des marques du papier dès leur apparition vers 1282 jusqu'en 1600: a Facsimile of the 1907 edition with supplementary material, ed. by Allan Stevenson, 4 vols (Amsterdam: The Paper Publications Society, 1968), no. 13448 (Brittany, 1476) and others from western France.
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), no 4854.
Catalogue of Romances in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum, ed. by H.L.D. Ward and J.A. Herbert, 3 vols (London: British Museum, 1883–1910) I, pp. 469-70 [on the text].
Le roman de Ponthus et Sidoine, ed. by Marie-Claude de Crecy (Genève: Droz, 1997), pp. xvi, xxxvii. l.
Astrid Guillaume, 'Ponthus et Sidoine', Arlima: Archives de littérature du Moyen Age (2016) https://www.arlima.net/no/185 [accessed 1 December 2017].
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)