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Harley MS 2443
- Record Id:
- 040-002048274
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048274
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000709.0x0003b7
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2443
- Title:
- Book of Hours, fragmentary
- Scope & Content:
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A fragmentary Book of Hours, now lacking folios at the beginning, at the end, as well as within the manuscript, and consisting mainly of the Office of the Dead.
Contents:
f. 1r-v: The end of a litany, beginning ‘peccata mundi misere[re] nobis’.
ff. 2r-70v: The Office of the Dead, now imperfect; Psalm 129, for Lauds, ends imperfectly, ‘omnibus iniquitatibus eius. Reqiuem', (f. 64v), followed by a collect, which begins ‘Deus in cuius miseracione anime fidelium requiescunt famulis et famulabus tuis', and which also ends imperfectly, ‘Et a septem peccatis mortalibus me libeet et defendat.'
f. 24v: A 16th-century addition to the readings in the lower margin.
Decoration:
1 large initial 'D' (ilexi) in gold on a pink ground, with a scatter border in colours and gold with violets, thistles, strawberries, and butterflies (f. 2r).
Numerous champ initials, ranging from 1-line to 2-line, in gold on red and blue ground.
Rubrics and ruling in red. Cadels on some of the letters of the top line of text (occasionally with a face, e.g. f. 60v). Capitals marked in yellow throughout.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002048274", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 2443: Book of Hours, fragmentary" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002048274 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 2443 : Book of Hours, fragmentary - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[2444]/040-002048274
- 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:
- 1475
- End Date:
- 1499
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter 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 area 75 x 50 mm).
Foliation: ff. 1* + 70 (+ 1 unfoliated modern paper flyleaf at the beginning + 1 unfoliated modern paper flyleaf at the end).
f. 1* is a former paper pastedown that carries an imprint of an earlier blind-stamped binding.
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: Post-1600: gilt-tooled brown leather; gilt fore-edges, and head and tail edges; gauffered pattern on the head and tail edges of the leather of the binding.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Southern Netherlands.
Provenance:
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.
- Information About Copies:
- Select digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/welcome.htm.
- Publications:
- A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), II (1808), p. 692, no. 2443.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- Belgium, Europe