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Harley MS 210
- Record Id:
- 040-002046038
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046038
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000596.0x0001cb
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 210
- Title:
- Book of Hours, Use of Sarum
- Scope & Content:
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ff. 1r–24v: Mixed Hours of the Virgin and of the Cross (imperfect)
ff. 25r–26v: Hours of the Passion (imperfect).
ff. 34v–36v: Various prayers and suffrages, prayers in English.
ff. 36v–43v: Psalms of the Passion.
ff. 47r–59r: The Penitential Psalms followed by the Litany and prayers (includes Albine, Swythune, Brigida).
ff. 59v–76v: The Office of the Dead.
ff. 76v-86v: Commendation of the Souls.
Suffrages after Lauds, including a suffrage to Thomas Becket which has been cancelled. Long rubrics have been cancelled (ff. 27v, 33v, 86v).
Decoration:
8 small miniatures in colours and gold with full or partial foliate bar borders, including knotwork of the Flagellation, at Terce, the Nailing to the Cross, at Sex, the Entombment, at Compline, and Christopher, standing saints holding books, Paul, at their respective suffrages or prayers, and David, at the beginning of the Penitential Psalms (ff. 25r, 25v, 26r, 26v, 29v, 31r, 47r). 13 large historiated initials with full or partial foliate bar borders with knotwork in the corners, of the crowned Virgin and Child, at Matins, the Throne of Mercy, at Lauds, clerics at Prime, Terce, and None, bishops at Vespers and Compline, the Virgin, the Instruments of the Passion, a Pietà, clerics singing, and souls in a cauldron, at the beginning of other divisions (ff. 1r, 6r, 14r, 16v, 18r, 19v, 21r, 22v, 27v, 36v, 43v, 59v, 77r). Initial cut out (f. 24r). Initials in colours and gold, with foliate feathering extending into the margin. Smaller initials in blue with red penwork or in gold with purple penwork. Coloured initials in blue or red (only ff. 44v-46v, probably added).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002046038", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 210: Book of Hours, Use of Sarum" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046038 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 210 : Book of Hours, Use of Sarum - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0209]/040-002046038
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English, Middle
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1400
- End Date:
- 1424
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: parchment.
Dimensions: 190 × 130 mm (written area 115 × 75 mm).
Foliation: ff. 88 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 1 unfoliated parchment leaf and 3 paper flyleaves at the end). Catchwords written horizontally. Leaf signatures. Missing leaves after ff. 1, 2 and 25. f. 7 is out of place, as it belongs to Matins (between ff. 2 and 3, but at least one other folio is missing after f. 2). f. 8 therefore follows from f. 6v (Ps. 62 in Lauds).ff. 87-88 are parchment leaves with later additions. f. 84 partly excised.
Script: Gothic.
Binding: British Museum; marbled endpapers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England (Western?).
Provenance:
Added prayers to the Virgin, Margaret and Denis (ff. 44v-46v), including the 7 Joys of the Virgin in English (ff. 86v-88), 15th century.
Sir Simonds d'Ewes (b.1602, d. 1650), 1st baronet, diarist, antiquary, and friend of Sir Robert Cotton (see Wright 1972).
Sir Simonds D’Ewes (d. 1722), 3rd baronet and grandson of the former: inherited and later sold the D’Ewes library to Robert Harley on 4 October 1705 for £450 (see Watson 1966).
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:
- Select digital coverage available for this manuscript; see the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts, https://bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/.
- Publications:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), I (1808), no. 210.
The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by Cyril Ernest Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), I: 1715-1723, pp. xviii-xix.
Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), p. 131.
Kathleen L. Scott, Later Gothic Manuscripts 1390-1490, A Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles, 6, 2 vols (London: Harvey Miller, 1996), II, pp. 77, 127.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)