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Harley MS 5297

Record Id:

040-002051143

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002051143

MDARK:

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LARK:

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Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 5297

Title:

Description of Near East, Middle East, and Asia, in French

Scope & Content:

Description of near East, Asia Minor, Greece and Mediterranean Islands, Asia Minor and Middle East, China, East Indies, Isles de l’archipelago de St Laurens aux Indes, and Tartary. With extracts from published accounts.

ff. 1-23 written in two different hands.

Text incomplete: Lead words for next section heading at end of manuscript ((‘De Lafrique’ inscribed at foot of f. 219v), but section not present.

Contents:

f. 1: ‘Description de l’Asie et des provinces qu’elle contient’.
f. 2r: ‘De La Natolie ou Asie Mineur’.
ff. 2v-3: ‘De la Bythinie’.
f. 4r: ‘De la province de Pont’.
f. 4v: ‘De la Paphlagonie’.
f. 5-6r: ‘De la Capadoce’.
ff. 6v-7: ‘De la Cilicie’.
f. 8r: ‘De la province Comagene’.
f. 8v: ‘Les Isle de L’Archipelago autrement appellé la mer Agee’.
f. 9r: ‘De l’Isle de Lemnos et de la terre appellée Seellee’.
ff. 9v-10r: ‘Description de l’Isle de Chio’.
f. 10v: ‘De l’iIle Icarie’ and ‘De l’Isle de Samos’.
f. 11r: ‘De l’Isle de Padmos, appellée a present Palmosa’.
ff. 11v-12r: ‘Description du Mont Athos’.
ff. 12v-13r: ‘Description de l’Isle de Co’.
ff. 13v-14r: ‘Description de l’Isle de Rhodes’.
ff. 14v-16v: ‘Description de l’Isle de Candie [Crete]’. Written in two hands.
ff. 16v-19r: ‘Description de la Candie extradite des observations de Pierre Belon’.
ff. 19r-21: ‘Description de l’Isle de Cypre’. Written in two hands.
f. 22r: ‘De la Province de Carie’.
f. 22v: ‘Description de la Doride’.
ff. 23-25r: ‘Description de l’Ionie’. Written in two hands.
f. 25: ‘Description de l’Aeolide’.
f. 25v: ‘De la Grande et petite Mysie’.
ff. 25v-27r: ‘Description de la petite Mysie’.
ff. 27-28: ‘De la grand Phrygie’.
ff. 28v-30f: ‘De la petite Phrygie’.
ff. 30v-32r: ‘Description de la Lydie’.
f. 32: ‘Description de la Lycaonie’.
ff. 33-34r: ‘Description de la Pysidie et de l’Isaurie’.
ff. 34-36r: ‘Description de la Lydie’.
ff. 36r-37: ‘Description de la Pamphylie’.
ff. 37v-39r: ‘Description de la Galatie’.
ff. 39v-40v: ‘Description de la petite Armenie’.
ff. 40v-52v: ‘Description de la Grande Armenie’.
ff. 52v-59v: ‘Description de la Syrie’.
ff. 59v-63v: ‘Description de la Palestine vulgo terre sainte’.
ff. 63v-73r: ‘Description terrae sanctae. Ex Relatione Brocardi monachi’.
ff. 73-78: ‘Description de la Phoenicie’.
ff. 78-81v: ‘Extrait du voyage de vincens le blanc, marseillois en phoenicie’.
ff. 81v-85r: ‘Description du mont Liban’.
ff. 85v-90r: ‘Description de l’Arabie, extraite du voyage de Vincens le Blanc, marseillois’.
ff. 90v-93v: Extraict du voyage, du Pere Philippe de la Trinité en Arabie’.
ff. 93v-96r: ‘Description de l’Arabie heureuse’.
ff. 96r-100r: ‘De Lorigine des Turcs’.
ff. 100r-103r: ‘Extraict de lorigine des Turcs, tiré a l’histoire de Guilhaume Archevesque de Tyr [etc]’.
ff. 103v-114: ‘Description de la Perse [etc.]’.
ff. 115-118r: ‘Extraict du voyage de Vincens le Blanc, touchant la Perse’.
ff. 118v-120r: ‘De la Province de Medie subiecte au Sophi’.
ff. 120r-122r: ‘Description de la province des Parthes subiecte au Sophi’.
ff. 122r-133r: ‘Extraict de Relation du voyage en Perse, fait par le sieur Scierley [Shirley], Ambassadeur du Roy d’Angleterre … 1598 et 1599’.
ff. 133r-147: ‘Lensuit l’histoire des Roix de Perse, depuis Arsaces iusques a la conquest du dit pais par les Arabes’.
ff. 148-155: ‘Description de la Chine’.
ff. 156-179r: ‘Description des Indes orientales et premierement de l’Empire du grand Mogor’.
ff. 179r-203r: ‘Des Isles de L’archipelago de St Laurens aux Indes’.
ff. 203v-206: ‘De la Tartarie’.
ff. 207-219: ‘Description de la Tartarie selon la Relation de Marc Paul noble venitien, envoyé en Ambassade vers le grand cam de Tartarie’.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002051143

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 5297 : Description of Near East, Middle East, and Asia, in French

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[5299]/040-002051143

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:

1600

End Date:

1699

Date Range:

17th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: 247 x 175 mm.

Foliation: 219 folios.

Binding: Post-1600 British Museum binding.

Custodial History:

Former owner: Pierre Séguier (1588-1672).

The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (1661-1724), 1st earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, and Edward Harley (1689-1741), 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 (1694-1755) during her lifetime and thereafter to their daughter, Margaret Cavendish Bentinck (1715-1785), duchess of Portland; the manuscripts were sold by the Countess and the Duchess in 1753 to the nation for £10,000 under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library.

Finding Aids:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), vol. 3, no. 5297.

Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A study of the sources of the Harleian collection of manuscripts preserved in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 254, 300.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

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