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Harley MS 5299
- Record Id:
- 040-002051145
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002051145
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x000334
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 5299
- Title:
- Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando Furioso (French translation)
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-73r: Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando Furioso (published in its complete form in 1532); French translation by 'Helye Bonnet' of the first five books; dedicated to the ‘Dauphin’.
The manuscript contains a few later additions:
ff. 2r, 72v, 73r: Inscriptions of numbers (possibly a cypher); added in the (?) 16th century.
ff. 71v-72r: Family notes by a 16th-century owner.
f. 72v: Jacques Gohory (b. 1520, d. 1576), Chanson: 'De jour en jour ma vie diminue'; added in the 2nd half of the 16th century.
f. 72v: Jacques Gohory (b. 1520, d. 1576), Chanson: 'La jeune vierge est sanblable [sic: semblable] à la rose' [part of his L'Onzieme livre d'Amadis de Gaule of 1554]; added in the 2nd half of the 16th century.
f. 72v: A hexagram inside a larger hexagram, with the letter 's' written at each of its points drawn [3x] in brown ink, perhaps representing a magical practice; added in the 2nd half of the 16th century.
f. 73r: A proverb in French: 'Acquiers plustort scavoir que richesse mondaine / Les biens sont incertains la siance [sic: science] est certaine'; added in the (?) 17th century.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002051145", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 5299: Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando Furioso (French translation)" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002051145 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 5299 : Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando Furioso (French translation) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[5301]/040-002051145
- 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:
- 1527
- End Date:
- 1545
- Date Range:
- c 1532-c 1540
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 255 x 175 mm.
Foliation: ff. 73 (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf and 2 unfoliated parchment flyleaves at the beginning + 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the end).
Script: 16th-century script.
Binding: British Museum in-house.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
? France.
Provenance:
‘Helye Bonnet’, owned in the late 16th century: his name inscribed on ff. 1r, 3v, 72v; at ff. 71v-72r are entries related to the births of his children, the first dated to 1590 (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 76).
? ‘David Mesgar’, owned in the 16th century: his name inscribed on ff. 72r [2x], 72v [3x], and 73r [3x] (not in Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)).
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: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), p. 259.
Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), p. 455.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Ariosto, Ludovico, poet, 1474-1533,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121385817
Gohory, Jacques, poet, historian, and alchemist, 1520-1576,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000083757762,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/0000000083757762 - Places:
- France