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Harley MS 5415
- Record Id:
- 040-002051261
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002051261
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x0003a8
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 5415
- Title:
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Mondonus Belvaleti, Speculum Anglorum
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-74v: Mondonus Belvaleti, Speculum Anglorum; a treatise on the Order of the Garter.
For another manuscript with this text, see Bibliothèque de Saint-Omer, ms. 793, which ends with the words 'brevis abbrevatio'; the present manuscript ends as follows: 'Explicit Brevis abreviacio de la Jarretier alias speculi Anglorum'.
The text was printed in Cologne in 1631 (see Boulton, The Knights of the Crown (1987), p. 155 n. 246).
Decoration:
1 large decorated initial with a full foliate border including hybrid figures, animals, birds, and a garter with the inscribed motto 'Honi soit qui mal y pense' in the lower margin, in colours and gold (f. 1r). 18 large or small decorated initials with partial foliate borders including the garter partly with the inscribed motto, in colours and gold (ff. 5v, 8r, 11r, 14v, 19v, 23r, 26v, 29v, 33r, 36r, 39r, 42v, 45r, 48v, 51v, 53v, 56v, 59v). Large decorated initials in colours and gold. Paraphs in plain red or blue. Line-fillers decorated in red and/or blue. Capital letters highlighted in yellow.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002051261", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 5415: Mondonus Belvaleti, Speculum Anglorum" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002051261 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 5415 : Mondonus Belvaleti, Speculum Anglorum - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[5417]/040-002051261
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- French
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1463
- End Date:
- 1480
- Date Range:
- 1463-c 1475
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 220 x 155 mm (text space: 110 x 75 mm).
Foliation: ff. 74 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyeaves and 1 parchment flyleaf at the beginning + 4 paper flyleaves at the end); each quire has been mounted onto a paper guard.
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: British Museum in-house. Rebound on 17 January 1967.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Northern France.
Provenance:
The rubrics on f. 1r and f. 59r feature the date 1463 ('Anno domini mil.o iiii.cmo lx iii.o').
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; perhaps inscribed by Harley on f. 1r: ‘Oxford. Janu: 1729/30’.
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), I, p. 266.
Boulton, D’Arcy Jonathan Dacre, The Knights of the Crown: The Monarchical Orders of Knighthood in Later Medieval Europe 1325-1520 (Woodbridge: Boydell, 1987), p. 155 n. 246.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Belvaleti, Mondonus, fl 1463,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000012626319