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Harley MS 4878
- Record Id:
- 040-002050721
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002050721
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x00018c
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 4878
- Title:
- Philippe de Vitry, Chronique de la création du monde (until 1327); Le chapel des trois fleurs de lis (in verse)
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 3r-58r: Philippe de Vitry, Chronique de la création du monde (until 1327); Le chapel des trois fleurs de lis (in verse).
Decoration:
Small miniature in colours and gold of Jacques de Vitry writing while a crowned lady presents the model of a church to a knight on a horse, with a large initial with ivy leaves and a full bar border with ivy leaves and a dragon (f. 51r). Historiated initial of a Creation scene (damaged) with a full bar border with ivy leaves and a dragon (f. 3r). Initials and line-fillers in colours and gold. Capitals marked in yellow.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002050721", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 4878: Philippe de Vitry, Chronique de la création du monde (until 1327); Le chapel des trois fleurs de lis (in verse)" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002050721 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 4878 : Philippe de Vitry, Chronique de la création du monde (until 1327); Le chapel des trois fleurs de lis (in verse) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[4877]/040-002050721
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- French, Old
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1300
- End Date:
- 1324
- Date Range:
- Last quarter of the 14th century or 1st quarter of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Letter of introduction required to view this manuscript
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 310 x 265 mm (written space: 240 x 195), in 2 columns.
Foliation: ff. 58 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + at the end).
Script: Gothic.
Binding: Post-1600. Brown leather with gold fillets; marbled endpapers, edges speckled with red.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: France, Central or N.
Provenance:
Added texts and inscriptions in French and Latin (ff. 2v, 50v, 58v), 15th-16th century, including an entry in French for the year 1528 referring to Francis 1st (François 1er) and Jacques de Beaune (f. 50v), and half-erased names (ff. 2v, 58v).
Inscribed 'Lambert Yerres', ?17th century (f. 58v).
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:
- A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), no. 4878.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Jacques de Vitry, Bishop of Acre, c 1170-1240,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000109230986 - Places:
- Central France
Northern France