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Harley MS 1512
- Record Id:
- 040-002047342
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002047342
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000709.0x000013
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1512
- Title:
- Breviary, Use of Sarum
- Scope & Content:
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Breviary, Use of Sarum, volume one of two, the second volume is Harley MS 1513. This volume includes the Temporale.
ff. 1-2 are parchment flyleaves including late 15th or early 16th-century additions by Hugh Fletcher (according to Wanley, see Catalogue 1808).
f. 1v: A poem in English, with a dedicatory title: 'honorifico magistro Apsley hec litterule tradet.'
f. 2r: Musical stroke notation, three fragments, the last one for a rondeau: 'Votre trey dowce'; see Bent and Bowers, 'The Saxilby Fragment' (1981).
f. 2v: A letter, incipit: 'Universis presentem litteram inspecturis reverencias et honores', mentioning 'magistro Apsley'; a calligraphic initial and two fragments with musical notation: 'Mater dei mei memento', with musical notation below, and a riddling couplet with musical notation: ‘Two parts in one ye may espy; edited by Robbins, ‘Review of Carter' (1963).
Decoration:
Initials with foliate decoration in colours and gold combined with foliate full or partial bar borders including daisies, at the beginning of the Temporale, Christmas and Epiphany (ff. 3r, 25v, 51v). Initials in blue with pen-flourished decoration in red or purple. Rubrics in red. Small initials and paraphs in blue. Line-fillers in red and blue.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002047342", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 1512: Breviary, Use of Sarum" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002047342 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 1512 : Breviary, Use of Sarum - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[1513]/040-002047342
- 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:
- 1395
- End Date:
- 1405
- Date Range:
- c 1400
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 420 x 280 mm (text space: 270 x 165 mm).
Foliation: ff. 197 (+ 7 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves: 3 at the beginning and 4 the end; f. i is a modern paper flyleaf of the previous 'Harleian' binding; ff. 1-2 are original parchment flyleaves).
Collation: Gatherings of 8, with quire signature in the lower right corner of the rectos in the first half of the gatherings and horizontal catchwords often in decorated frames in the lower margin of the last verso.
Script: Gothic.
Binding: British Museum in-house binding; rebound in 1965.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
The Apsley family of Apsley, Sussex, late 15th and early 16th century: a poem in English dedicated to 'Magistro Apsley' by Hugh Fletcher (f. 1v) (see Catalogue 1808) and added obits in the calendar in volume 2, Harley MS 1513 including possibly John Aspley of Michelgrove and Thakenham, Sussex (b. 1445, d. 1507), Sheriff of Surrey and Sussex.
Allen Bathurst (b. 1684, d. 1775), first Earl Bathurst, politician and descendent from the Apsley family (for the genealogy, see Julia Alexander Hankey, History of the Apsley and Bathurst Families (Cirenchester: Savory, 1889)): given by him to the Harley collection, as inscribed by the Harleian librarian, Humfrey Wanley, 'Hunc et insequentem codicem D.D. Alan Bathurst Arno [?] filius D. Benj. Bathurst militis' (f. i recto) and in the Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts (1808): 'Codex membranceus in fol. ampliori quem una cum illo qui sequitur, Domino meo dono dedit Alanus Bathurst (nunc Baro Barthust de Batlesden)'.
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.
- Administrative Context:
- England.
- Information About Copies:
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Select digital coverage available for this manuscript, see Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/welcome.htm.
- Publications:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-1812), II (1808), no. 1512.
Rossell Hope Robbins, ‘Review of Carter, A Dictionary of Middle English Musical Terms’, Journal of the American Musicological Society, 16 (1963), 75-8 (p. 77).
Cyril E. Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 66, 398.
Census-Catalogue of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music 1400-1550, 5 vols, Renaissance Manuscript Studies (Neuhausen-Stuttgart: American Institute of Musicology, Hänssler Verlag, 1979-1988), II, p. 92.
Margaret Bent and Roger Bowers, 'The Saxilby Fragment', in Early Music History, 1 (1981), 1-27 (p. 9).
Theodor Dumitrescu, ‘An English Adoption of the Burgundian Chanson’, in Citation and Authority in Medieval and Renaissance Musical Culture: Learning from the Learned: In Honour of Margaret Bent on her 65th Birthday, ed. by Suzannah Clark and Elizabeth Eva Leach (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2005), pp. 174-83 (p. 175).
Mathilde Koskas, ''As choice a parcel of books as any in England': La collection de manuscrits Harley, une collection fondatrice du British Museum', Mémoire d'études pour le diplôme de conservateur de bibliothèque, mars 2008, partie 2, 1.2.8.[http://www.enssib.fr/bibliotheque-numerique/document-1975], accessed 6 July 2009.
Linne R. Mooney, Daniel W. Mosser, and Elizabeth Solopova, The Digital Index of Middle English Verse, Based on the Index of Middle English Verse (1943) and its Supplement (1965) no. 6092-1 http://www.cddc.vt.edu/host/imev/Records.php?MSS=BLHar1512 [accessed on 29 April 2013]
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Aspley, John, Sheriff of Surrey and Sussex; of Michelgrove and Thakenham, Sussex, 1445-1507
Bathurst, Allen, 1st Earl Bathurst, politician, 1684-1775
Bentinck, Margaret Cavendish, duchess of Portland, née Harley, collector of art and natural history specimens and patron of arts and sciences, 11 Feb 1715-17 Jul 1785,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000115857160,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/2356861
Harley, Edward, second earl of Oxford and Mortimer, book collector and patron of the arts, 2 Jun 1689-16 Jun 1741,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000108078249,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/160524259
Harley, Henrietta Cavendish, Countess of Oxford and Mortimer, née Holles, patron of architecture, 4 Feb 1694-9 Dec 1755,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000030125833,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/6045563
Harley, Robert, first Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, 5 Dec 1661-21 May 1724,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000083423906 - Related Archive Descriptions:
- Harley MS 1513