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Harley MS 5217
- Record Id:
- 040-002051061
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002051061
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x0002e0
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 5217
- Title:
- Mirrors for Princes attributed to Olivier de la Marche and Jean de Villiers, dedicated to Philip the Good
- Scope & Content:
-
Contents:
ff. 1r-17r: Olivier de la Marche (b. c. 1425, d. 1502), military advice for a prince ('je me suis delibere de mettre par escript quelle chose cest dun gage de bataille comment le prince et le iuge si doibt conduire selon raison et bonne equite'), dedicated to Philip the Good (r. 1419-1467), duke of Burgundy.
ff. 17r-35r: Jean de Villiers (b. c. 1384 – 22 May 1437), lord of L'Isle-Adam, 'Le Livre du Seigneur de lisle Adam pour gaige de battaille'; dedicated to Philip the Good, duke of Burgundy.
Decoration:
Large and small plain initials in red ink. A rubric in red ink on f. 17r.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002051061", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 5217: Mirrors for Princes attributed to Olivier de la Marche and Jean de Villiers, dedicated to Philip the Good" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002051061 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 5217 : Mirrors for Princes attributed to Olivier de la Marche and Jean de Villiers, dedicated to Philip the Good - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[5217]/040-002051061
- 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:
- 1425
- End Date:
- 1499
- Date Range:
- 2nd quarter of the 15th century-4th quarter of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
-
Materials: parchment.
Dimensions: 200 x 150 mm (text space: 125 x 90 mm).
Foliation: ff. 35 (+ 3 unfoliated blank parchment flyleaves at the beginning + 2 at the end); the first and last flyleaves (f. [i] and f. [[37]) have blank paper leaves pasted against their, respectively, recto and verso sides.
Script: Gothic (Batarde).
Binding: Post-1600. Gold-tooled brown leather.
- Custodial History:
-
Origin:
France.
Provenance:
An unknown French owner, 17th century: their erased ownership inscrption on f. [ii]recto: '[...] de Monseigneur de la [...]'.
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), p. 252.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Jean de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, c 1384-1437,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000009053433
Olivier de la Marche, c 1425-1502,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121402373 - Places:
- France