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Harley MS 873
- Record Id:
- 040-002046702
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046702
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x00017b
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 873
- Title:
- Rituale (Manuale), Use of Sarum
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-94v: Rituale (Manuale), Use of Sarum; with musical notation; imperfect at the beginning and end. The manuscript features formula for consecrations (e.g. 'Qualiter hij qui in Ordine Anachoritarum debeant se habere') and blessings (e.g 'Benedictio Scuti et Baculi ad Duellum faciendum'), the Visiation of the Sick ('Ordo ad visitandum Infirmum'), and Commendation of the Dying ('Commendacio Animarum'); also features two litanies of saints, including English saints such as Sts Aethelwold, Birinus, Cuthbert, Dunstan, Erkenwald, Etheldreda, and Swithun.
Decoration:
4 (3-line) initials in gold with brown pen-flourishing (ff. 7r, 14r, 28v, 37r). Large (2-line) initials in blue with red pen-flourishing. Smaller (1-line) plain initials in red, blue, or brown. Rubrics in red. Capitals marked in yellow.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002046702", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 873: Rituale (Manuale), Use of Sarum" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046702 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 873 : Rituale (Manuale), Use of Sarum - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0873]/040-002046702
- 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:
- 1425
- End Date:
- 1474
- Date Range:
- 2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 270 x 175 mm (text space: 195 x 135, in 2 columns).
Foliation: ff. 94 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end).
Script: Gothic.
Binding: British Museum in-house; brown and purple gold-tooled half-leather binding with the Harleian armorial bookplate gold-stamped on the outside covers; marbled endpapers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
An unknown post-medieval owner: perhaps their pressmark ('7') inscribed in brown ink on ff. 1r and 94v.
Edward Stillingfleet (b. 1635, d. 1699), bishop of Worcester and theologian (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 316).
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 Harleiani (1972), p. 316).
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.
- 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), p. 466.
A. J. Collins, 'The Bangor Missal', The National Library of Wales Journal, 4 (1945), 57-60.
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. 316.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- England