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Harley MS 5440
- Record Id:
- 040-002051286
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002051286
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x0003c1
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 5440
- Title:
- Jacobus de Cessolis, Liber de moribus hominum et officiis nobilium sive super ludum scaccorum, translated into French by Jean de Vignay
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-82v: Jacobus de Cessolis [Jacopo da Cessole] (b. c. 1250, d. 1322), Liber de moribus hominum et officiis nobilium sive super ludum scaccorum; a translation in French out of Latin by Jean de Vignay (b. c. 1285, d. 1348), beginning: ‘A Tres noble et excellent prince Jehan de france duc de normendie et auisne filz de philipe par la grace de dieu Roy de france’.
Decoration:
1 large purple initial in a gold frame with penwork decoration of acanthus leaves in purple and gold on blue branches inside and outside the letter (f. 1r). Small gold initials in blue and purple frames throughout the manuscript.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002051286", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 5440: Jacobus de Cessolis, Liber de moribus hominum et officiis nobilium sive super ludum scaccorum, translated into French by Jean de…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002051286 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 5440 : Jacobus de Cessolis, Liber de moribus hominum et officiis nobilium sive super ludum scaccorum, translated into French by Jean… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[5442]/040-002051286
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- French, Middle
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1400
- End Date:
- 1499
- Date Range:
- 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 235 x 165 mm.
Foliation: ff. 82 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves and 2 unfoliated parchment flyleaves at the beginning + 3 unfoliated parchment flyleaves and 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end); f. [ii] bears a watermark with the name ‘Renold Vimal’; f. [86] a watermark with a griffon.
Script: Gothic.
Binding: Post-1600. Gold-tooled red leather; gilt fore-edge and a green ribbon as a bookmarker.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
France.
Provenance:
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:
-
A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), p. 268.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Jacobus de Cessolis, c 1250-c 1322,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000084897310
Vignay, Jean, c 1285-c 1348,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000062997644 - Places:
- France