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Harley MS 935

Record Id:

040-002046764

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002046764

MDARK:

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LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 935

Title:

Prayer book

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-4v and ff. 107r-108v: Calendar; The calendar is imperfect and has been misbound: February (ff. 1r-1v); March (ff. 2r-2v); October (ff. 3r-3v); November (ff. 4r-4v); April (ff. 107r-107v); September (ff. 108r-108v). ff. 5v-6v: The Seven Penitential Psalms, imperfect at the end.

ff. 7r-14v: The Fifteen Oes (‘Quindecim Oraciones ad Christum’).

ff. 15r-25v: Psalms and Canticles.

ff. 26r-26v: Memoria for St Katherine, imperfect at the end.

ff. 27r-28r: Memoria for St Margaret.

ff. 29r-30r: Memoria for St Barbara.

ff. 31r-34r: Psalms.

ff. 34r-36v: The Fifteen Gradual Psalms.

ff. 36v-40v: Litany of Saints, including various English saints: imperfect at the end.

ff. 41r-42v: Pater Noster, followed by short prayers to God.

ff. 42v-44v: Short Collects, beginning: ‘Deus cui proprium est misereri semper’.

ff. 45r-52v: Psalms.

ff. 53r-55v: Obsecro te; imperfect at the beginning, the end is at ff. 78r-78v.

f. 55v: Prayer to the Virgin Mary, beginning: ‘Ave mundi spes Maria’; imperfect at the end.

ff. 56r-56v: Memoria for St Christopher; imperfect at the end.

ff. 57r-58r: Prayer to God, imperfect at the beginning.

ff. 59r-61v: Prayer on the Seven Joys of the Virgin Mary; imperfect at the end.

ff. 62r-66v: Psalm 118, imperfect at the beginning; Psalm 138; followed by two Collects.

ff. 67r-69v: Psalms of the Passion (‘Psalterium de passione domini’).

ff. 70r-70v: Memoria for St Thomas Becket; crossed out in brown ink.

f. 71r: Prayer to God, imperfect at the beginning.

ff. 72r-75v: Prayers to the Virgin Mary on verses of the Salve Regina.

ff. 76r-78r: O Intemerata; imperfect at the beginning.

ff. 78r-78v: Obsecro Te; imperfect at the end, the beginning is at ff. 53r-55v.

ff. 79r-90v: Lections and psalms from the Office of the Dead.

ff. 91r-91v: Memoria for St George, imperfect at the end.

ff. 92r-92v: Memoria for St Mary Magdalene, imperfect at the end.

ff. 93r-103v: Psalms.

ff. 104r-105v: Continuation of the prayer on the Seven Joys of the Virgin Mary.

f. 106v: The last lines of a prayer, ending: ‘domine exaudi et clamor me’.

ff. 106r-106v: Prayer to God, beginning: ‘Omnipotens sempiterne deus qui unigenitum filium tuum dominum nostrum ihesum Christum crucem coronam spiream et quinque vulnera subire voluisti’.

The manuscript contains various later additions:

ff. 16r, 23v-24r, 28-28v, 30r, 41r, 66v, 70r, 70v, 71v, 98v, 105v: Prayers in English; added in the 16th century.

f. 30v: Prayer in Latin, beginning: ‘Per signum Tau [T] a reste et fame libera nos ihesu’; added in the 16th century.

Decoration:

Historiated initial 'V'(irgo) in colours and gold of the Virgin Mary entering the temple (f. 59v). 9 full foliate borders with large initials in colours and gold (ff. 5r, 7r, 26r, 27r, 29r, 56r, 67r, 91r, 92r). Champ initials in colours and gold, some large, some small. Blue initials with red pen-work decoration, gold initials with blue penwork decoration, or red initials with blue penwork decoration. 'KL' initials in gold on coloured grounds. Rubrics in red.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002046764

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 935 : Prayer book

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[0935]/040-002046764

Container:

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

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1450

End Date:

1499

Date Range:

2nd half of the 15th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 95 x 65 mm (text space: 50 x 35 mm).

Foliation: ff. 1* + 108 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 2 at the end); f. 1* is a paper flyleaf; 1 unfoliated parchment stub after ff. 14, 75, 98, 105; 1 unfoliated blank paper leaf after f. 25 and f. 26; many folios are missing.

Script: Gothic.

Binding: Post-1600. White leather over pasteboards; mottled red fore-edges.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

John Brygandyne, Bachelor of Divinity of Cambridge and London clergyman, owned the manuscript: his additions to the Calendar seem to record his work as a priest, for example performing the weddings of Isabella Darrell and Joan Pierpoynt (although these notes may have been added in a different hand); the manuscript also features added prayers in English and annotations in his hand, for example on f. 70r (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 86; Duffy, Marking the Hours, pp. 159-162 and Plates 104 and 105).

Sir William Collier: his name inscribed on f. 1*recto in a note that records his gift of the manuscript to Robert Harley in 1709: ‘Domini Gulielmi Collier Donum Maii 21 1709, R. H.’ (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 109).

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. 478.

Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 86, 109.

Eamon Duffy, Marking the Hours: English People and Their Prayers 1240-1570 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006), pp. 159-62 and Plates 104 and 105.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Places:

England