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Harley MS 4939
- Record Id:
- 040-002050783
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002050783
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x0001ca
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 4939
- Title:
- Appian, Histoire des guerres des romains
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 2r-95r: Appian, Histoire des guerres des romains.
Decoration:
1 full-page miniature with full foliate borders, in colours and gold (f. 1r) made around 1450 in Burgundy; 1 armorial full-page miniature, in colours and gold (f. 6v). 2 full-page miniatures with large decorated initials and full foliate borders, in colours and gold, for the prologue and the first chapter (ff. 7r, 13r). Large decorated initials, in colours and gold, for chapters. Paraph marks in gold on red or blue grounds. Line-fillers in gold on red, blue and/or green grounds. Capital letters highlighted in yellow.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002050783", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 4939: Appian, Histoire des guerres des romains" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002050783 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 4939 : Appian, Histoire des guerres des romains - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[4939]/040-002050783
- 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:
- 1450
- End Date:
- 1517
- Date Range:
- 1450-1517
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 330 x 235 mm (written space: 245 x 140 mm).
Foliation: ff. 95 (+ 1 parchment and 1 paper flyleaves at the beginning and 2 unfoliated medieval and 1 modern parchment flyleaves at the end).
Script: Humanistic.
Binding: Post-1600. Harleian binding of gold-tooled red leather; marbled endpapers; gilt edges.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: France, Central (Paris); France, N. E. (Burgundy).
Provenance:
An unidentified owner: motto followed by initials 'Bonne Foy G : D' (f. 1r).
Claude de Seyssel (b. c. 1450/55, d. 1520), jurist, advisor to the French kings Louis XII (1498-1515) and Francois I (1515-1547), bishop of Marseille (1508) and archbishop of Turin (1517): his arms (ff. 7r, 13r), and dedicatory prologue 'Claude de Seyssel evesque de Marseille [...] addresse au trescretien roy de France Francois premier' (f. 7r).
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: [n. pub.], 1808-12), III, no. 4939.
Walter de Gray Birch and Henry Jenner, Early Drawings and Illuminations: An Introduction to the Study of Illustrated Manuscripts (London: Bagster and Sons, 1879), p. 18.
Paul Oskar Kristeller, Iter Italicum: Accedunt Alia Itinera: A Finding List of Uncatalogued or Incompletely Catalogued Humanistic Manuscripts of the Renaissance in Italian and other Libraries 7 vols (London: Warburg Institute; Leiden: Brill, 1963-1997), IV (1989), p. 183.
François Avril and Nicole Reynaud, Les manuscrits à peintures en France 1440-1520 (Paris: Flammarion, 1993), p. 195 [exhibition catalogue].
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Appian, of Alexandria
- Places:
- Burgundy, Duchy of Burgundy (historical region), France
Paris, France