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Harley MS 929
- Record Id:
- 040-002046758
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046758
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x0001b3
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 929
- Title:
- Breviary (Temporale), Use of Sarum
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
The Temporale portion of a Breviary, Use of Sarum.
Decoration:
Full bar borders in colours and gold with quatrefoils, acanthus leaves, small masks, and foliate decoration (ff. 75v, 83r, 90r, 94v, 164v).
Large initials in colours and gold enclosing flowers and ivy (ff. 75v, 83r, 90r, 94v).
Numerous small initials in blue or red enclosing foliate motifs on gold ground with foliate decoration extending into the margins (only in quires 'x' (ff. 65r-72v), 'three dots' (ff. 97r-104v) and the following quire (ff. 105r-112v)), or combined with bar borders ending in foliate decoration and ivy tendrils forming a partial border on most pages. Smaller initials in gold with red pen-work decoration or in blue with red pen-work.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002046758", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 929: Breviary (Temporale), Use of Sarum" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046758 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 929 : Breviary (Temporale), Use of Sarum - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0929]/040-002046758
- 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:
- 1375
- End Date:
- 1424
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 14th century-1st quarter of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Letter of introduction required to view this manuscript
- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 130 x 90 mm (text space: 85 x 50 mm).
Foliation: ff. 180 (+ 8 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 2 unfoliated ruled leaves and 8 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end).
Script: Gothic.
Binding: Post-1600. Dark blue leather with gold tooling. Marbled endpapers and the remains of the previous binding (gold- and blind-tooled dark brown partly sprinkled leather) pasted onto the inside covers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: ? England.
Provenance:
An effaced inscription (f. 180v).
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: Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts, https://bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/.
- Publications:
- A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), I (1808), no. 929.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)