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Harley MS 745
- Record Id:
- 040-002046574
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046574
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x0000fb
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 745
- Title:
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Psalter
- Scope & Content:
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Content:
ff. 1-146v: Psalter, including Canticles, the Penitential Psalms and litany.
Decoration: 1 large historiated initial in colours on gold at the beginning of Psalm 1 (f. 7r). 9 other large initials in gold on a blue and pink or blue and brown ground with foliate motifs in white, at the beginning of Psalms 26, 38, 51, 52, 68, 80, 97, 101, 109 (ff. 27r, 40r, 51r, 51v, 63v, 78v, 92r, 93v, 107)r. Small initials in gold on pink and blue. 12 large 'KL' letters in gold on pink and blue (ff. 1-6v). Simple initials in red or blue, occasionally with some penwork decoration. Display script in white on brown, blue, pink, or blue, for letters following large initials. The calendar is written in red and black. Geometric line fillers in red and blue.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002046574", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 745: Psalter" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046574 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 745 : Psalter - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0745]/040-002046574
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1250
- End Date:
- 1299
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 13th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimension: 245 x 170 (170 x 105) mm.
Foliation: ff. 1*, 2* + 163 (+ 3 unfoliated parchment flyleaves at the beginning and 3 at the end; ff. 1*, 2*, 163 are medieval parchment flyleaves).
Script: Gothic.
Binding: ost-1600. Gold-tooled red leather over wooden boards; gilt edges; traces of two metal fastenings of a previous binding (f. 163v).
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England
Provenance:
Said to be for the use of King Henry III (b. 1207, d. 1272, king of England from 1216), by Thomas de Langley: the colophon 'Scripsit hunc librum Thomas de langley in usum Henrici tertii Regis' (f. 162r), (see discussion Cavanaugh 1988). However, this is written by the second of two scribes; the first wrote ff. 1-146v; the second added or replaced (?) ff. 147-162v in the 14th or 15th century.Inscribed, 14th/15th century 'The fist (sic) day of May being Monday' and added drawing of a horse (f. 2*). Several added entries in the calendar, 14th-16th centuries (ff. 1-6v), including a prayer for the soul of Edward Stafford (b. 1478, d. 1521), 3rd duke of Buckingham (f. 3r), notes on births, baptisms and deaths of members of the family of Lathum dated to 1582, 1586, 1602, 1605 and an obit of 'Anth. Browne Miles', dated to 26 March 1623 (f. 2r).Added, 16th century: note on the birth of Peter Lathum in 1586 (f. 163r). Edward Stillingfleet (b. 1635, d. 1699), bishop of Worcester and theologian (see Wright, Fontes (1972). Edward Stillingfleet (b. 1661, d. 1708), physician and Church of England clergyman, son of the former; in 1707 acquired by Robert Harley (see Wright, Fontes (1972)).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.
- 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. 745.
C. E. Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 186, 216, 316.
Bénédictins du Bouveret, Colophons de manuscrits occidentaux des origines au XVIe siècle, 6 vols (Fribourg: Éditions universitaires, 1965-1982), V (1979), p. 413 no. 17946.
Susan H. Cavanaugh, 'Royal Books: King John to Richard II', The Library, 6th series, 10 (1988), 304-16 (p. 305).
Nicholas Vincent, 'The Great Lost Library of England's Medieval Kings' in 1000 Years of Royal Books and Manuscripts, ed. by Kathleen Doyle and Scot McKendrick (London: The British Library, 2013), pp. 73-112 (pp. 94-95, 103, 111).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)