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Harley MS 2434

Record Id:

040-002048265

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002048265

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000709.0x0003ae

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 2434

Title:

Middle Dutch Book of Hours

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 3r-14v: Calendar in Dutch, with a number of saints related to Utrecht including 'Sarijs' [Marius] (19 January).

ff. 16r-39r: The Hours of the Holy Virgin: imperfect at the beginning.

ff. 40r-72v: The Hours of the Holy Spirit, entitled: 'Hier beghint die hilige gheest getide'

ff. 73r-87v: The Hours of the Virgin Mary; imperfect at the beginning and end.

ff. 88r-92r: The Long Hours of the Cross; imperfect at the beginning

ff. 93r-100r: The Seven Penitential Psalms.

ff. 100r-108v: Litany of Saints; followed by prayers to God.

ff. 109r-139r: The Office of the Dead; imperfect at the beginning.

ff. 140r-140v: Suffrage to St Anne.

ff. 140v-142r: Suffrage to the Holy Cross.

ff. 142r-142v: Suffrage to St Gertrud.

ff. 142v-144r: Suffrage to St Erasmus.

ff. 144r-144v: Suffrage to St Katherine.

ff. 144v-145r: Suffrage to St Barbara.

ff. 145r-145v: Suffrage to the Guardian Angel.

ff. 145v-146r: Suffrage to St Anthony.

ff. 146r-146v: Suffrage toSt Margaret.

f. 147r: Suffrage to St James.

ff. 147r-147v: Suffrage to All Souls.

The manuscript contains a few additions:

f. 1r: A post-medieval inscription, largely cut off.

f. 2r: Post-medieval inscriptions in pencil, faded.

Decoration:

2 historiated initials in gold and colours with three-sided borders with acanthus leaves, strawberries, flowers, quadrilobes and foliate tendrils of Pentecost and the Resurrection of the Dead (ff. 40r [The Descent of the Holy Spirit on the Apostles], 93r [The Last Judgement, with the dead arising in the lower margin and angels with trumpets in the upper margin]). 26 large initials in colours and gold with three-sided borders with acanthus leaves, strawberries, flowers, quadrilobes and foliate tendrils at the beginning of the other sections (ff. 21v, 24r, 26r, 28v, 31r, 35v, 43r, 44v, 46v, 48r, 50r, 53r, 61r, 63r, 64r, 65v, 67r, 68v, 70v, 77v, 80v, 82v, 84r, 86r, 87v, 90r). Initials in colours and gold with foliate ink tendrils. Coloured initials in gold or blue. Line-fillers in gold and blue.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002048265

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 2434 : Middle Dutch Book of Hours

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[2435]/040-002048265

Container:

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

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Dutch, Middle
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1445

End Date:

1490

Date Range:

c 1460-c 1485

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 160 x 115 mm (text space: 90 x 60 mm).

Foliation: ff. 147 (+ 1 unfoliated transparant paper flyleaf and 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves and 1 unfoliated parchment flyleaf at the beginning + 4 at the end); 1 unfoliated paper leaf after f. 1; 1 unfoliated parchment leaf after f. 2; The opening pages of several major texts are missing before ff. 16 (Hours of the Virgin), 55 (Hours of the Eternal Wisdom), 73 (Hours of the Cross), and 109r (Office of the Dead).

Script: Gothic.

Binding: British Library in-house; half brown leather with the Harleian arms gold stamped on the outside covers; rebound in 1976. Remains of the previous binding (gold- and blind-tooled dark brown sprinkled leather) pasted on the inside lower cover and the previous spine on the inside cover (inscribed in gold: 'Manuale Precum Belgicae').

Custodial History:

Origin:

Northern Netherlands (Ijssel region, Zwolle or Deventer).

Provenance:

This manuscript belongs to the 'Sarijs group' (see Wierda, De Sarijs-handschriften (1995), pp. 51-52).

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), II (1808), p. 691 (no. 2434).

Karel de Flou and Edward Gailliard, Beschrijving van Middelnederlandse en andere handschriften die in Engeland bewaard worden, Verslagen en Mededelingen van de Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie voor Taal- en Letterkunde, 3 vols (Ghent: Koninklijke Vlaamsche Academie voor Taal- en Letterkunde, 1895–1897), II (1896), pp. 130-137 (no. 14).

Deutsche Handschriften in England, ed. by Robert Priebsch, 2 vols in 1 vol (Hildesheim: Olms, 1979, first publ. Erlangen: Junge, 1896-1901), II: Das British Museum mit einem anhang über die Guildhall-Bibliothek, no. 13.

J. P. Gumbert, The Dutch and their Books in the Manuscript Age (London: British Library, 1990), p. 40 n. 53.

Lydia S. Wierda, De Sarijs-handschriften. Studie naar een groep laat-middeleeuwse handschriften uit de Ijsselstreek (voorheen toegeschreven aan de Agnietenberg bij Zwolle) (Zwolle: Wanders, 1995), pp. 51-52, with floppy-disc.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Places:

Northern Netherlands