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Harley MS 5391

Record Id:

040-002051237

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002051237

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x000390

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 5391

Title:

Statutes for the Collège du Plessis, Paris

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-4v: Statutes for the Collège du Plessis, Paris, drawn up in 1571, entitled: ‘Sequuntur Regulæ et Statuta in omni bene constituta societate hominum perpetuo observanda, et observari solita ab omni ævo et antiquitate et præcipue in coetu et corona aulicorum Plessæorum quæ Vetustate obliterata fuerant, nunc primum in integrum restituta dilligentia et studio magistri Simonis Bigot primarij decani Parisiensis et concensu omnium præceptorum dilligenter oservata et suis chirographis obsignata in perpetuam memoriam et observationem Anno a redemptione nostra milesimo quingentesimo septuagesimo primo Die Vero prima et Calendis Octobris P R’.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002051237

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 5391 : Statutes for the Collège du Plessis, Paris

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[5393]/040-002051237

Container:

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

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1571

End Date:

1571

Date Range:

1571

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 215 x 170 mm.

Foliation: ff. 4 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 2 unfoliated parchment flyleaves and 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end).

Script: 16th-century script.

Binding: Pre-1600. Original blind-tooled and gold-stamped brown leather; with the gold-stamped title on the upper cover: ‘LIBER·STATVTORUM·DATVS·A·EGIDIO·MORIER·1571’.

Custodial History:

Origin:

Paris.

Provenance:

Egidius Morier, owned until 1571: his name with the year 1571 gold-stamped on the upper cover (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 244).

Paris, Collège du Plessis, owned the manuscript: the manuscript contains its statutes, drawn up in 1571 by Simon Bigot and given to the College by Egidius Morier (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 266).

Nicholas Joseph Foucault (b. 1643, d. 1721), Marquis de Magny, Intendant de la Généralité de Caen, 1689-1704: his bookplate with arms and inscription (‘Ex Bibliotheca Nicolai Joseph Foucault Comitis Consistoriani’) pasted on the inside of the upper cover (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), pp. 155-156).

Thomas Ballard, bookseller and book auctioneer in London: obtained by Harley at the Ballard sale, 23 February 1720/21 through the agency of Thomas Bacon or Nathaniel Noel (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani ( 1972), p. 62).

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, inscribed as usual by their librarian, Humfrey Wanley ’23 Februarij 1720/21’ (f. [i]recto).

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.

Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), p. 264.

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. 62, 155-156, 244, 266, 456.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Places:

France
Paris, France