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Harley MS 7026/1
- Record Id:
- 040-001614261
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-001614261
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001515.0x000094
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 7026/1
- Title:
- A lectionary (the 'Lovell Lectionary'), with added pages from a Missal and a genealogy of the barons of Holland
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
This is the first volume of a composite manuscript. The second volume is now Harley 7026/2, and contains modern calligraphical collections; the binding is Harley MS 7026/3.
ff. 2v-3r: A genealogy of the barons of Holland accompanied by three obits written into banners, commissioned by Joseph Holland: 'Joseph Holand, de interiori Templo London, natus apud Weare, in Com' Devoniae, invenit istum librum decimo quinto die Junii Anno Domini 1600 et propter amorem et reverentiam fundatoris preservari procuravit' (f. 3v).
ff. 4-20v: part of a Lectionary (the 'Lovell Lectionary'), imperfect.
ff. 21r-22v: Pages from a Missal, copied in the 3rd quarter of the 15th century.
Decoration:
Large miniature in colours of the patron, Lord Lovell (f. 4v). Smaller miniatures or historiated initials with full inhabited borders, including heraldry, animals, angels, saints, busts, and men or hybrids, in colours and gold (ff. 5r, 6r, 7v, 9v, 10r, 11r, 12r, 13r, 14r, 15r, 16r, 17r, 18r, 19r, 20r). Small miniatures in colours and gold, two with partial borders (ff. 7r, 8r, 9r). Large initials in colours and gold. Line fillers in colours and gold.
The artist of the principal miniature and additional later illustrations was John Siferwas (inscribed, f. 4v). His name also occurs in the Sherborne Missal (Add MS 74236).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-001614261 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 7026/1 : A lectionary (the 'Lovell Lectionary'), with added pages from a Missal and a genealogy of the barons of Holland - Contains:
- Harley MS 7026/1, ff 1-20 : Lectionary, imperfect ('Lovell Lectionary').
Harley MS 7026/1, ff 21-22 : Pages from a Missal (imperfect).
Click here to View / search full list of parts of Harley MS 7026/1 - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[7036]/040-001614261
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Harley_MS_7026/1 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1395
- End Date:
- 1474
- Date Range:
- c. 1400-3rd quarter of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: parchment.
Dimensions: 475 x 310 mm.
Foliation: ff. 22 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and many at the end + interleaved with unfoliated and blank parchment leaves).
Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house.
- Custodial History:
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Provenance:
Thomas Granger (d. 1732), clerk to the committee of Private Trade, East India Company: see Scott, Later Gothic Manuscripts (1996), II, p. 64.
? Humfrey Wanley: probably acquired by him by 1703 (see Letters of Humfrey Wanley, ed. Heyworth (1989), p. 228).
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.
- Information About Copies:
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- 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), no. 7026.
Christopher Wordsworth and Henry Littlehales, The Old Service-Books of the English Church, 2nd edn (London: Methuen & Co., 1910), p. 200, pl. XXII.
Schools of Illumination: Reproductions from Manuscripts in the British Museum, 6 vols (London: British Museum, 1914-1930), IV: English A.D. 1350 to 1400 (1922), pls 6, 7.
[J. A. Herbert], British Museum: Reproductions from Illuminated Manuscripts, Series 2, 3rd edn (London: British Museum, 1923), pl. 16.
[J. A. Herbert], Illuminated Manuscripts and Bindings of Manuscripts Exhibited in The Grenville Library, Guide to the Exhibited Manuscripts, 3 (Oxford: British Museum, 1923), no. 34.
Eric. G. Millar, English Illuminated Manuscripts of the XIVth and XVth Century (Paris: Van Oest, 1928), pl. 1.
Guide to an Exhibition of English Art gathered from Various Departments and held in the Prints and Drawings Gallery (London: British Museum, 1934.), no. 128.
Joan Evans, English Art 1307-1461, Oxford History of English Art, 5 (Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1949), p. 98 n. 1.
Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books, ed. by N. R. Ker, 2nd edn, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 3 (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), p. 171.
Illuminated Manuscripts Exhibited in the Grenville Library (London, British Museum, 1967), no. 29.
Kathleen L. Scott, ‘Caveat Lector: Ownership and Standardization in the Illustration of Fifteenth-Century English Manuscripts’, in English Manuscript Studies, 1, ed. by Peter Beal and Jeremy Griffiths (London: British Library, 1989), 19-63 (p. 59, n. 51).
Letters of Humfrey Wanley: Palaeographer, Anglo-Saxonist, Librarian, 1672-1726, ed. by P. L. Heyworth (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989).
C. Paul Christianson, A Directory of London Stationers and Book Artisans 1300-1500 (New York: Bibliographical Society of America, 1990), pp. 160-61.
Jonathan J. G. Alexander, Medieval Illuminators and their Methods of Work (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992), p. 30, fig. 45.
Kathleen L. Scott, Later Gothic Manuscripts 1390-1490, A Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles, 6, 2 vols (London: Harvey Miller, 1996), no. 10 [with additional bibliography].
Janet Backhouse, The Illuminated Page: Ten Centuries of Manuscript Painting in the British Library (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997), no. 123.
Christopher de Hamel, The British Library Guide to Manuscript Illumination: History and Techniques (London: British Library, 2001), pl. 37.
Gothic: Art for England 1400-1547, ed. by Richard Marks and Paul Williamson (London: V & A Publications, 2003), no. 254, pl. 4 [exhibition catalogue].
Justin Clegg, The Medieval Church in Manuscripts (London: British Library, 2003), p. 35, pl. 29.
Matthew Boyd Goldie, Middle English Literature (Oxford: Blackwell, 2003), p. 134.
Debra Higgs Strickland, Saracens, Demons, & Jews: Making Monsters in Medieval Art (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003), p. 116, fig. 47.
Kathleen L. Scott, 'The Decorated Letters of Two Cotton Manuscripts', in Tributes to Jonathan J. G. Alexander: The Making and Meaning of Illuminated Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts, Art & Architecture, ed. by Susan L'Engle and Gerald B. Guest (London: Harvey Miller, 2006), pp. 99-110 (p. 103 n. 33).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)