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Harley MS 587/1
- Record Id:
- 040-002046416
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046416
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x00005d
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 587/1
- Title:
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Breviary, use of Sarum (Volume 1)
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript is the first of two volumes, which comprise Harley MS 587 (the other being Harley MS 587/2), a Breviary, of Sarum use. This volume contains the Temporale, Dedication of the Church, and the Calendar.
The Breviary was adapted for the diocese of Worcester. The Calendar includes a number of feast days for the patron saints of Worcester: St Wulfstan, bishop of Worcester (January 19), St Oswald, bishop of Worcester (February 28) and the Translation of St Wulfstan (June 7). It was probably made shortly after 1415, as its Calendar also includes the feast days of St David and St Chad in red, which were only raised to higher status in 1415.
Contents:
ff. 1r-179r: Temporale, begins imperfectly in the First Sunday of Advent, in the rubric preceding the hymn for Vespers 'Conditor alme siderum', incipit: 'R. dicuntur a duobus clericis de inferiori gradu.'
ff. 179r-184v: Dedication of the Church.
ff. 185r-190v: Calendar.
ff. 1*v-2*r: Added three readings for the feast of the Annunciation (16th century): 'Missus est Gabriel angelus', 'Ne timeas Maria' and 'Quomodo fiet inquit quam virum non cognosco.'
f. 2*v: Added rubric and two readings for the office of the Virgin during Easter (16th century): 'Quando fit plenum servicium de sancta maria in tempore paschali.'
Decoration:
Foliate initials in colours and gold with full or partial borders at the beginning of some major feasts and divisions (f. 125r (Ascension), f. 137v (Corpus Christi), and f. 179r (Dedication of the Church). Excised pages, some with remaining border decoration (before f. 1 and after f. 137). Initials in blue with red pen-flourishing. Small initials and paraphs in blue.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002046416", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 587/1: Breviary, use of Sarum (Volume 1)" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046416 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 587/1 : Breviary, use of Sarum (Volume 1) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0587]/040-002046416
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1410
- End Date:
- 1425
- Date Range:
- c 1415-c 1420
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 185 x 120 (text space: 130 x 80 mm).
Foliation: 1*+2*+190 (+ 3 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and 4 at the end).
Catchwords and bifolium signatures.
Script: Gothic.
Binding: British Museum in-house. Rebound 25 April 1966. Red half-leather binding with the Harleian armorial bookplate, gold-stamped on the upper and lower covers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England.
Provenance:
Two added inscriptions relating to a list of books (?): 'nomina sunt in libro cavaleris (?) verba ... in fine 14' (crossed out); 'nomina librorum interum sunt in fine libri historice bibiothece numera sunt 16 qui', 16th century (f. 2*r).
Added reading for the feast of the Annunciation and a rubric and two readings for the office of the Virgin during Easter, 16th century (ff. 1*v-2*r, 2*v).
Added inscriptions in Latin and English, 16th century (see volume two, now Harley MS 587/2, ff. 420v, 428v).
Sir Simonds d'Ewes (b.1602, d. 1650), 1st Baronet, diarist, antiquary, and friend of Sir Robert Cotton, perhaps to be identified with 'Breviarium secundum usum Sarum', no. A902 in his catalogue (see Add MS 22918, f. 40r; Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes (1966), no. A.902).
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, The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes (1966), no. A.902).
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.
- Former Internal References:
- Harley MS 587
- Information About Copies:
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Select digital coverage available for this manuscript, see Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/welcome.htm.
- Publications:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-1812), I (1808), no. 587.
Andrew G. Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes (London: British Museum, 1966), no. A902.
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.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- D'Ewes, Simonds, 3rd Baronet, grandson of the Antiquary, c 1670-1722
D’Ewes, Simonds, 1st Baronet, diarist and antiquary, 1602-1650,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000083393524,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/12656415 - Places:
- England
- Related Material:
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This is the first volume of Harley MS 587. The second volume is Harley MS 587/2.