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Harley MS 4474/1
- Record Id:
- 040-004053229
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-004053229
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100134577049.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 4474/1
- Title:
- Martin le Franc, L'Estrif de Fortune et Vertu, volume 1
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-142v: Martin le Franc (b. c. 1410, d. 1461), L'Estrif de Fortune et Vertu [1447–1448], in 3 books, here entitled: 'Lestrif et debat de Vertu et Fortune'; with a dedication to Philip the Good: 'A treshault, trespuissant, et tresredoubte prince, Phelippe Duc de Bourgogne, de Brabant, &c. Martin le Franc, prevost de Lausanne, Secretaire de notre Saint pere Nicolas, treshumble recommendation'.
Part of a 2-volume set, the second volume of which is Harley MS 4474/2.
Decoration:
2 large puzzle initials in blue and red in a framework of penwork decoration in brown ink (ff. 2r, 5r, 73r). Large plain red initials. Capitals highlighted in yellow. Rubrics in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-004053229", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 4474/1: Martin le Franc, L'Estrif de Fortune et Vertu, volume 1" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-004053229 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 4474/1 : Martin le Franc, L'Estrif de Fortune et Vertu, volume 1 - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[7842]/040-004053229
- 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:
- 1445
- End Date:
- 1500
- Date Range:
- c 1450-1500
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 275 x 205 mm (text space: 185 x 110 mm).
Foliation: ff. 142 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end); 1 unfoliated paper pastedown on f. [144]verso (conservation notes).
Collation: Quires mounted on guards; indicated by catchwords.
Script: Gothic cursive (Bâtarde).
Binding: British Library in-house; red half leather with the Harleian arms gold-stamped on the outside covers; re-bound in 1986.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
France.
Provenance:
Nicholas Joseph Foucault (b. 1643, d. 1721), marquis de Magny, statesman and archaeologist: his book-plate with the legend 'EX BIBLIOTHECA | NICOLAI JOSEPH FOUCAULT | COMITIS CONSISTORIANI' and his arms ([sable] a lion rampant, dexter, crowned [argent], as supporters two lions [argent]; a couronne de marquis surmounting the shield) on f. [iv]recto (Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 155).
Thomas Ballard, bookseller and book auctioneer in London: included in auction at Paul's Coffee House, 20 February 1720/1, lot 65; bought through Nathaniel Noel, bookseller, by Humfrey Wanley (Diary, Wright and Wright (1966), I, p. 91 n. 6; Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 62).
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 '23 Februarij, 1720/21.' (f. 1r).
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, p. 162.
Gaston Paris, 'Un poème inédit de Martin Le Franc' Romania, 16 (1887), 383-437 (p. 397).
The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by C. E. Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), I: 1715-1723, p. 91 n. 6.
Oskar Roth, Studien zum 'Estrif de Fortune et Vertu' des Martin Le Franc, Europäische Hochschulschriften, 13: Französische Sprache und Literatur, 6 (Bern: Lang, 1970), p. 39.
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. 62, 155.
Martin le Franc, L'estrif de fortune et vertu, ed. by Peter F. Dembowski, Textes littéraires français, 513 (Geneva: Libraire Droz, 1999), p. xxv.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Franc, Martin le, French poet, c 1410-1461,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000118044675 - Places:
- France