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Arundel MS 300
- Record Id:
- 040-002039583
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002039280
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000395.0x00037c
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100164311362.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Arundel MS 300
- Title:
- Formulary of psalms and prayers made by Lord Henry Howard
- Scope & Content:
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This is a formulary in Latin of psalms and prayers compiled by Lord Henry Howard, from 1604 Earl of Northampton. It is written carefully and neatly in his own hand.
The title-page, written in English and in another (early 17th-century hand) on the first folio of the parchment volume, calls it 'A formularie of Psalmes & Prayers made by Henry Erle of Northampton, and writt w[i]th his own hand' (f. 1r). It was evidently a personal copy which passed to Northampton's Howard kin. The title-page also has a stamp recording the gift of the volume to the Royal Society by Henry Howard (later 6th Duke of Norfolk), grandson of Northampton's great-nephew and heir Thomas Howard, 14th Earl of Arundel, 4th Earl of Surrey and 1st Earl of Norfolk: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis’.
The call-number for the volume was evidently originally 185, written at the top of the title-page in a 17th-century: this has been struck out and replaced with 300, written in a 17th or 18th-century hand - certainly a hand that predates the acquisition of the volume by the British Museum in 1831.
Contents:
f. 1r: Title-page.
ff. 2r-11r: The Confession of Sins.
ff. 12r-34v: Office of the Father.
ff. 35r-63r: Office of the Son.
ff. 64r-79r: Office of the Holy Spirit.
ff. 80r-90r: Office of the Holy Trinity.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Arundel Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002039280
040-002039583 - Is part of:
- Arundel MS 1-550 : Arundel Manuscripts
Arundel MS 300 : Formulary of psalms and prayers made by Lord Henry Howard - Hierarchy:
- 032-002039280[0301]/040-002039583
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Arundel MS 1-550
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100164311362.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1540
- End Date:
- 1614
- Date Range:
- 1540-1614
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- England.
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 150mm x 110mm (writing area: 125mm x 95mm).
Foliation: ff. 90 (plus two unfoliated parchment flyleaves at the rear and two unfoliated blank parchment folios, between ff. 1 and 2 and ff. 34 and 35: all have the red lines drawn in as borders as in the rest of the parchment volume; plus three unfoliated paper flyleaves at the front, the third possibly older than the others, and two unfoliated paper flyleaves at the rear).
Script: 16th-century Roman hand (main text) and early 17th-century secretary hand (title-page).
Binding: Post-1600, possibly 19th-century. Red and brown leather. Gilt-tooled on the front and back with Howard coat of arms, and around the shield a circle bearing the words: 'Bibliotheca Arundeliana'.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
? Thomas Howard (b. 1585, d. 1646), 2nd Earl of Arundel, 4th Earl of Surrey, and 1st Earl of Norfolk, art collector and politician. of Norfolk, presented to the Royal Society in 1667.
The Royal Society, London: its ink stamp ‘Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.’ (f. 1r).
Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in 1831.
- Former Internal References:
- 185
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Manuscripts in the British Museum, New Series, Vol. I (London: Trustees of the British Musem, 1834), p. 89.
Linda Levy Peck, Northampton: Patronage and Policy at the Court of James I (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1982).
Linda Levy Peck, 'The mentality of a Jacobean grandee' in The Mental World of the Jacobean Court (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991), pp. 148-68.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)