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Harley MS 5301

Record Id:

040-002051147

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002051147

MDARK:

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LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 5301

Title:

Statuts et armoiries des chevaliers de la Table Ronde de Bourges

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-49v: Statuts et armoiries des chevaliers de la Table Ronde de Bourges (Statutes and Armorial of the Round Table of Bourges). A few ruled leaves have been left blank after f. 15 to enter the names of future members of the Round Table with the date of their admission into the order (ff. 15v-[16h]v). ff. 29v-[29i]v are also blank for the arms of the future members to be added. The same occurs after f. 34 at the end of the section recording the deaths or exclusion of members.

The manuscript contains a few later additions:

f. 22v: An inscription referring to explanations in the text on ff. 30r-30v: 'raye la peinte armoyrie et mis les de valenciennes hors lad[ite] compaignye pour les causes cy apres declarees': added c. 1492.

ff. 16r, 50r-53r: Text, entitled 'Relation veritable de se qui se passa le Mardi 2 Jour de Julliet au comba donne au bon faux bour de S Anthoine entre les trouppes du Cardinalle Masarin [Mazarin] [...] et celles de Monsieur Le duc dorleans [...] 1652'; added in the 17th century.

f. 54r: Pen-trials, added in the 17th century.

Decoration:

Heraldic arms in colours and gold surrounded by the collar of the order, a rosary with a pendant depicting the Virgin and Child (ff. 18r-29r). Large initials in colours on a gold panel with flowers (ff. 1r, 34r), and numerous smaller initials in the same style.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002051147

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 5301 : Statuts et armoiries des chevaliers de la Table Ronde de Bourges

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[5303]/040-002051147

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:

1481

End Date:

1533

Date Range:

c 1486-1533

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 250 x 160 mm.

Foliation: ff. 54 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end); 8 unfoliated ruled parchment leaves after f. 16; 9 after ff. 29 and 34; ff. [i] and 54 are a former pastedowns.

Script: Gothic cursive.

Binding: British Museum in-house. Marbled endpapers; gilt edges.

Custodial History:

Origin:

France, Central (Bourges?).

Provenance:

The manuscript was probably begun c. 1486 when the Order was created, with additions to 1533 when Jean Lallemant l'Ainé died (his death is recorded on f. 34v).

Comte de Fauux (or Fauve?), mid-17th century: his name inscribed on f. [i]v: 'Monsieur Le Comte de (?) Fauux' (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p.149).

Matthew de Varenne, London bookseller and auctioneer (fl. 1723/4): sold by him to Harley on 24 October 1722 (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 336).

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, inscribed as usual by their librarian, Humfrey Wanley ‘24 die Octobris, A.D. 1722’ (f. [ii]recto).

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. 259.

The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by Cyril Ernest Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), I: 1715-1723, p. 166 n. 8.

Renaissance Painting in Manuscripts: Treasure from the British Library, ed. by Thomas Kren (New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1983), p. 150 n. 3.

Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 149, 336.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Places:

Central France