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Harley MS 2367
- Record Id:
- 040-002048198
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048198
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000709.0x00036b
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2367
- Title:
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A prayer book
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-74v: A prayer book, including a calendar (ff. 1r-6v), a litany (ff. 31r-32v), lacking leaves at the beginning.
Decoration:
Full border in colours and gold, the initial removed (f. 36r). Initials in gold on coloured grounds with gold balls and green leaves (f. 7r). Small initials in gold with penwork decoration in black, or in blue with penwork decoration in red. Line-fillers in blue. Replacement pages with initials in blue or red, some with red pen-flourishing (ff. 17r-21r, 52r, 68r-74r). In the calendar, initials in red, with penwork decoration in brown on f. 1r.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002048198", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 2367: A prayer book" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002048198 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 2367 : A prayer book - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[2368]/040-002048198
- 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:
- 1400
- End Date:
- 1449
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 135 x 100 mm (written space: 85 x 60 mm).
Foliation: ff. 76 + 16* (+ 5 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 4 at the end).
Script: Gothic.
Binding: British Museum in-house. Rebound in 1965.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
The parish church of South Molton, in Devon: addition in the calendar of the dedication of the church (f. 5v).
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, inscribed as usual by their librarian, Humfrey Wanley ‘17 Maii 1715' (f. 1r).
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), no. 2367.
A Paraphrase on the Seven Penitential Psalms, in English Verse, supposed to have been written by Thomas Brampton, S.T. P. in the year 1414; together with a legendary Psalter of Saint Bernard, in Latin and in English verse, ed. by William Henry Black, Percy Society, 22 (London: Percy Society, 1842), p. xiii.
Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books, ed. by N. R. Ker, 2nd edn, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 3 (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), p. 222.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- England