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Harley MS 1845
- Record Id:
- 040-002047676
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002047676
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000709.0x000161
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1845
- Title:
- Book of Hours, for the use of Sarum, imperfect
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-6v: Calendar, containing English saints such as Wulfstan, Milburga (in red), Oswald of Worchester, David, Cedd, Edward the Martyr (Death and Translation), Cuthbert, Guthlac, Ælfheah, Deposition and Translation of Erkenwald (both in red), John of Beverley, Dunstan, St Ethelbert the King (in red), Edmund the Martyr (Death and Translation), Richard of Chichester, Botolph, Alban, Æthelthryth, Swithin, Kenelm, King Oswald, Cuthburh, Cuthbert, Edith of Wilton, Wilfrid, Translation of St Edward the Confessor (in red), Frideswide, Translation of Thomas of Hereford (red), Winifred, Birinus, and the Death and Translation of Thomas Becket (both in red, and erased by a sixteenth-century user). It also features a previously unrecorded copy of a Middle English verse for finding the Easter day after the new moon, beginning:'in marche after þe fyrst .c. take þe nexte prime where ever he be' (21 copies of the text are recorded in NIMEV 1502 and DIMEV 2533, including one in Harley MS 3810/1, f. 52v)
ff. 9r-10v: A prayer on the Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross (no rubric), beginning: 'Domine Ihesu Christe fili dei vivi qui septem verba die ultima vite tue in cruce pendens dixisti'.
ff. 17r-59v: The mixed Hours of the Virgin and the Cross and the Holy Spirit with (Missing the beginning of Matins of the Hours of the Virgin (after f. 16), Prime (after f. 41), None (after f. 50), Vespers (after f. 52); with, at the end of the Lauds, a collection of suffrages to the Holy Spirit, the Trinity, the Holy Cross, Michael, John the Baptist, Peter and Paul, John the Evanglist, Andrew, Stephen, Lawrence, Thomas Becket (erased), Nicholas, Anne, Mary Magdalene, Katherine, All Saints, a 'memoria de pace' and 'matutine de cruce' (ff. 34r-42v).
ff. 59v-67v: The Seven Penitential Psalms; imperfect due to loss of text after f. 64.
f. 67v: The Litany of saints; imperfect due to the loss of folios, only the opening lines remain.
ff. 68r-107v: The Office of the Dead, imperfect at the beginning due to the loss of folios.
ff. 108r-123v: Commendation of Souls; imperfect at the beginning due to the loss of folios.
ff. 123v-130v: A long prayer of confession, begining: 'I am I knowe to god and to our ladi seint mari and to alle þe companye of hevene and to alle holi chyrche and to the prest syttynge in goddis stede þat I have synned in the sevene dedely synnes' (comparable to Oxford, Bodleian Library, Douce 30, ff. 213r-227r).
The manuscript contains various additions:
f. 7r: A memorandum: 'I[...] more resevyd the last day september the viij yere of our [...] lord kyng [...]'; added in the late 15th or early 16th century.
f. 7v: A draft letter: 'Ryght wurschipfull fader and mother afteur all dewe Recommendacioun as I can and at a [...]'; added in the early 16th century.
f. 7v: Lines from a prayer, beginning: 'In die nomine amen'; added in the early 16th century.
f. 7v: A list of accounts on payments or deliveries; added in the early 16th century.
f. 8r: Practice sentences, including: 'In my begynnyng god be my spede in grace and [...]'; added in the 16th century.
ff. 11r-16r: An added quire with Latin prayers for physical and spiritual protection, including a prayer to one's guardian angel, to Roch (with an abbreviated rubric 'Raphael archangelus ad beatum Rocchum etcaetera'), Agathius (Achasius)and his army, and the Eight Verses of Saint Bernard, with an introductory rubric, beginning: 'Legitur in vita sancti Bernardi abbatis Claervallis quod demon sibi semel apparuit dicens si scire octo versus in psalterio quos qui cotidie diceret tanti meriti acquireret'; written in the 15th century.
f. 42r (upper margin): Notes on payments or deliveries (similar to those on f. 7v): 'Item delyverd to thomas / Item delyverd Roger [...]'; added in the 16th century.
f. 42r (lower margin): The prayer Veni Creator Spiritus; added in the 15th century.
f. 67v (lower margin): The prayer Pace Domine; added in the 15th century.
f. 129r (lower margin): 'Aftur all dewe Recomendashun'; added in the early 16th century.
f. 130r (lower margin): [...] more recevyd iij last of [...]'; added in the early 16th century.
Decoration:
5 large initials in colours and gold with acanthus leaves with full foliate bar borders, at the beginning of Lauds of the Virgin (f. 24v), Terce (f. 46r), Sext (f. 49r), Compline (f. 54v) and the Penitential Psalms (f. 59r). Initials in colours and gold with foliate feathering. Smaller initials in gold with dark blue or purple penwork decoration, or in blue with red penwork. Line-fillers in blue and gold. Added sketches of a horse's head in brown ink (f. 7r); two hands in brown ink (f. 122r); a horse in black ink (f. 71r), and a human face or skull in brown ink (ff. 91r and 103r).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002047676", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 1845: Book of Hours, for the use of Sarum, imperfect" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002047676 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 1845 : Book of Hours, for the use of Sarum, imperfect - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[1847]/040-002047676
- 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:
- 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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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 210 x 135 mm (text space [indicated by pricking holes]: 120 x 75 mm).
Foliation: ff. 130 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 2 at the end); the margins of certain folios have been excised (ff. 55, 111, 112, 121, 124); 1 unfoliated paper pastedown on f. [i]recto (bibliographical notes).
Collation: Indicated by horizontal catchwords in brown ink frames, and leaf signatures.
Script: Gothic.
Binding: Post-1600. Gold-tooled brown mottled calf with gold fillets.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
South-East England (London).
Provenance:
Walter Longford, 15th or 16th century: inscribed with his name on f. 108v ('Gwalter Longford'), his signature on f. 120v, and a reference to himself ('gwalter longford is a knave') on f. 129v (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 227).
John [Y]all, 16th century: their faded ownership inscription on f. 8v: 'John ȝall est verus possessor' (not in Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)).
Wyllyam Hok [? or Hoeke], 16th century: his ownership inscription and book curse on f. 8v: 'Wyllyam Hok oth thys bok / and he that thys bok stels / the dele rot off hys uels' [William Hok owns this book / and he that this book steals / [may] the devil rot off his skin]; however, the same hand continues with an inscription that confirms that he rightfully received it from William Hok: 'Wyllyam hok ys thys yewre bok / And thys beyew bok (?}gid / Wyllyam hok gyffe me thys bok' (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), pp. 191-92).
Elisabeth Hoeke, 16th century: her name in a faded inscription on f. 7v: 'Elysabethe hoeke is [...]' (not in Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)).
Thomas Hoeke, 16th century: his memorandum on f. 127r: 'Memorandum that I Thomas hoeke have dely[ve]rd unto the sayd kynges Body' (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 191).
'William Ne[c]ol', 16th century: his name 'Wyllyam Ne[?]ol' inscribed on f. 121r (not in Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)).
George Hickes (b. 1642, d. 1715), bishop of the nonjuring Church of England and antiquary: faint pencil inscription wit hhis name on f. 1r (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 189).
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), II (1808), pp. 261-62 (no. 1845).
William Henry Black, A Paraphrase On the Seven Penitential Psalms, In English Verse, Supposed To Have Been Written By Thomas Brampton In the Year 1414; Together With a Legendary Psalter Of Saint Bernard, In Latin and In English Verse, Percy Society, 22 (London: Percy Society, 1842), Appendix I [edition of ff. 15-16 from this manuscript].
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. 189, 191-92, 227.
Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards, A New Index of Middle English Verse (London: British Library, 2005), no. 1502 [=NIMEV].
'In March after the first C' [no. 2533], in The Digital Index of Middle English Verse, ed. by Linne R. Mooney and others [=DIMEV] [accessed 13 April 2021].
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- England