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Harley MS 6916
- Record Id:
- 040-002052768
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002052768
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000935.0x0001bb
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6916
- Title:
- Collection of poems by Charles d'Orléans and his circle
- Scope & Content:
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A near complete copy of Charles d'Orléans' personal manuscript (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, ms français 25458) (Poetry of Charles D’Orléans, ed. by Fox and Arn (2010), p. 827).
Contents:
ff. 1r-205r: A collection of poems consisting of ballades, chansons, complaintes, caroles and rondeaux by Charles d'Orléans and his circle. The authors include Fredet; Simonnet Caillau; René I, duke of Anjou; Guillaume de Monceau; Jean Caillau; Gilles des Ormes; Jean de Garencières; Philippe le Bon, duke of Bourgogne; Jean II de Bourbon; Fraigne; Charles de Nevers; Jean Vaillant; Anthoine de Cuise; and others.
Decoration:
An added sketch of a centaur carrying a woman in the lower margin (f. 11r).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002052768", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 6916: Collection of poems by Charles d'Orléans and his circle" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002052768 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 6916 : Collection of poems by Charles d'Orléans and his circle - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[6924]/040-002052768
- 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:
- 1450
- End Date:
- 1499
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: paper.
Dimensions: 195 x 140 mm (text space: approx. 135 x 80 mm).
Foliation: ff. 1* + 205 (+ 2 modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and 3 at the end); f. 1* is an early modern paper flyleaf.
Script: Gothic (French batarde).
Binding: Post-1600. Harleian binding in red leather and cloth.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
France.
Provenance:
16th century: added verses and inscriptions including one mentioning 'Jehan Dammour marchant die/dir' (?) (f. 205v).
17th century: added inscription 'Poesies de Charles dOrleans pere de Louis XII, et de plusieurs autres auteurs' (f. 1* verso).
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. 448, no. 6916.
Pierre Champion, Le Manuscrit Autographe des Poesies de Charles D’Orléans (Paris, 1907), p. 83.
A.E.B. Coldiron, 'Translation, Canons, and Cultural Capital: Manuscripts and Reception of Charles D’Orléans's English Poetry', in Charles D'Orléans in England, ed. by Mary-Jo Arn (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2000), pp. 183-91 (p. 190).
Anne Elizabeth Banks Coldiron, Canon, Period, and the Poetry of Charles of Orléans: Found in Translation (Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2000), pp. 82-83.
Poetry of Charles D’Orléans and His Circle: A Critical Edition of BnF MS. Fr. 25458, Charles D’Orléan’s Personal Manuscript, ed. by John Fox and Mary-Jo Arn, trans. by R. Barton Palmer (Turnhout: Brepols, 2010), p. 827.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Valois, Charles, Duke of Orleans, 1394-1465