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Harley MS 5256

Record Id:

040-002051100

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002051100

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x000307

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 5256

Title:

Loys Papon, Discours à Lesdiguières

Scope & Content:

This manuscript is an autograph copy of Discours à Lesdiguières, a poem written by Loys Papon (b. 1539, d. 1499), a French playwright and prior of Marcilly. It features a dedication (ff. 3r-4r) from Papon to a certain 'M de Lesdiguières', who can be identified as François de Bonne, (b. 1543, d. 1626), duke of Lesdiguières and later constable of France. The poem is a panegyric, written in praise of Lesdiguières, particularly his deeds during the French Wars of Religion.

For the autograph manuscript of Papon's Pastorelle, see Harley MS 4325.

Contents:

ff. 2r-23r: Loys Papon, Discours à Lesdiguières.

Decoration:

The arms of François de Bonne, duke of Lesdiguières with crest in colours (f. 1v). Title page in colours and gold with full frame in foliate design, two medallions historiated with a knight in classical armour with trophies and a classical bust in profile in colours and gold (f. 2r). 2 portraits in colours and gold of de Bonne (f. 2v) and Henri IV, king of France (f. 4v). Full frames in foliate design in colours and gold with historiated medallions including classical busts in profile (ff. 3r-4v, 23r), Victory standing on a dolphin (f. 5r), soldiers, knights, dignitaries and courtisans on foot or on horseback (ff. 5r-8v, 9v-11v, 12v-16r, 17r, 18v), a horse-drawn litter carrying masked figures (f. 9r), a lady in a mask on horseback (f. 12r), musicians (f. 16v), jousting (ff. 17v-18r), farming (ff. 19r, 20v), hunting scenes (ff. 19v-20r, 21r) a horse-drawn carriage carrying a masked figure (f. 22r) and a shepherd tending his flock under a tree (f. 22v). A medallion historiated with a classical knight on horseback sketched in ink (f. 23r).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002051100

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 5256 : Loys Papon, Discours à Lesdiguières

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[5256]/040-002051100

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

French

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1597

End Date:

1597

Date Range:

1597

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment.

Dimensions: 195 x 125 mm (text space: 85 x 45 mm).

Foliation: ff. 23 (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning and 1 unfoliated parchment flyleaf at the end).

Script: Humanistic cursive.

Binding: Pre-1600. Original covers of purple silk velvet; spine restored.

Custodial History:

Origin: France, S. E (Montbrison).

Provenance:

Written in 1597 by Loys Papon (b. 1539, d. 1599), French playwright and Chanoine of Notre-Dame d'Espérance at Montbrison, and dedicated to François de Bonne, duke of Lesdiguières: his inscription 'À Monbrison par L. P. 1597' (f. 2r; see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 76).

François de Bonne (b. 1543, d. 1626), duke of Lesdiguières, governor of Dauphiné 1591, marshal of France 1607, and the last to hold the office of constable of France 1622: his arms and portrait (ff. 1v, 2v; see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 76).

Jean Jacques Laugier, 'de la ville daix' (Aix en Provence): his inscriptions, the first dated 1716 (f. 23v, f. [ii]r-v, and inside lower cover; see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 217).

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.

Information About Copies:

Select digital coverage available for this manuscript; see the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts, https://bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/.

Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: [n. pub.], 1808-12), II (1808), no. 5256.

Sylvia L. England, 'An Unrecognized Document in the History of French Renaissance Staging', The Library, series 4, 16 (1935), 232-235.

Sylvia L. England and Pierre Séchaud, Discours a Lesdiguières par Loys Papon, Forézien (1597) (Montbrison: Au Siège de la Diana, 1936; an extract from the Bulletin de la Diana, 25, 1935).

Cyril E. Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 76, 217, 455.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

François de Bonne, Duke of Lesdiguières; Governor of Dauphiné, 1543-1626
Papon, Loys, French playwright, 1533-1599,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000109019099,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/54152334

Places:

Montbrison, France