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Harley MS 917

Record Id:

040-002046746

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002046746

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x0001a7

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 917

Title:

A prayer book

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-3r: Psalm 96:6-Psalm 98; with an antiphon, beginning: ‘Gaude virgo maria cuntis hereses sola interemisti in universo mundo’.

ff. 3r-5r: A prayer to Christ (beginning: ‘Domine deus pater ominpotens rex creator celi et tere’), introduced by the rubric: ‘Quicumque dixerit hanc oracionem devocione in illo die neque diabolus neque malus homo ei nocere poterit ut dicit beatus gregorius neque infirmus animam eius suscepietur’.

ff. 5r-11r: The hymn Dulcis Jesu memoria, introduced by the rubric: ‘Hic incipiunt ympnarum de sanctissime nominis ihesu’.

ff. 11r-12r: A prayer to Christ, beginning ‘Domine deus omnipotens ego te humiliter adoro’.

ff. 12r-12v: A prayer to Christ (beginning: ‘O bone ihesu libera me ab omni malo’), entitled ‘Alia oracio’.

ff. 12v-13r: A prayer to Christ (beginning ‘O domine ihesu Christe qui tuam sanctissimam carnem et sanguinem de sanctissime marie virginis utero assumpsisti’), introduced by the rubric: 'Omnibus istam oracionem dicentibus infra elevacionem corporis Christi et tercium agnus dei duo milia indulgencie annorum conceduntur per papam bonefacium sextum ad supplicacionem phillippi Regi francie’.

ff. 13r-13v: The prayer Anima Christi, introduced by the rubric: ‘Dominus papa Johannes concessit omnibus dicentibus in tempore misse .xxx.m. annorum indulgencie Videlicet pro peccatis mortalibus .xx. milia et pro peccatis venialibus .x. milia’.

ff. 13v-14v: A sequence of salutations to Christ (beginning ‘Ave ihesu Christe verbum patris’), entitled ‘Salutaciones ihesu Christi’.

ff. 14v-15r: A salutation to Christ (beginning ‘Ave principium nostre creationis’), entitled ‘Alia Salutacio ihesu Christi’.

ff. 15r-20r: A sequence of salutations to the Virgin Mary (beginning ‘Ave virgo virginum mater Christi’), entitled ‘Salutaciones de sancta maria’.

ff. 20v-48r: An office for the Virgin Mary, beginning ‘Aperi, Domine, os meum ad benedicendum nomen sanctum tuum’; featuring various Marian prayers and salutations.

ff. 48r-52v: A litany for the Virgin Mary.

ff. 52v-58r: Prayers to the Fifteen Joys of the Virgin Mary, beginning ‘O domina pia dulcissima mater’.

ff. 58r-65v: Petitions and salutations to Virgin Mary, beginning ‘Ave mundi spes maria’.

The manuscript contains later additions:

f. 66r: A Middle English medicinal recipe against the plague, entitled ‘Medicina contra pestilencia’.

f. 66v: A Middle English medicinal recipe, partially legible; ending ‘werffore y hope to fynde a special remedy to let hyt over passe and thyngk þeron no more’.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002046746

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 917 : A prayer book

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[0917]/040-002046746

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English, Middle
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1400

End Date:

1499

Date Range:

15th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 135 x 90 mm.

Foliation: ff. 66 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 2 at the end).

Script: Gothic.

Binding: British Museum in-house.

Custodial History:

Origin: England.

Provenance:

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:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), I (1808), p. 475.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)