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Harley MS 2444

Record Id:

040-002048275

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002048275

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000709.0x0003b8

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 2444

Title:

Prayer book

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 7r-18r: A treatise on the meaning of Mass in Low German, with the introductory rubric: 'Dit is dat beduytnisse van der heylger missen. As der priester anden elter kumpt ee he die miss an heefft so nyget he sich tzo der eerden'; beginning: 'Dat beduyt dat nygen dat sich der hemelsche vader nygeden in also groisser mynnen inde oitmoidicheit tzo dem armen bedroifften sunder in den yemerlichen dal der ellendicheit'.

ff. 18r-19r: A treatise on the virtues of Mass in Low German, with the introductory rubric: 'Hij begint die doigden der heilger missen', beginning: 'Dye ierste doichde der heilger missen is Datdu al die werlt umlouffen moichtes bynnen eynre missen tzijtz

ff. 19r-: A prayer to Christ in Low German, with the introductory rubric: 'Eyn nutzlich gebet sprich alle dage', beginning: 'O here du haift myt dynre heilger bloitstortzinge untbunden die bende mynre sunden'.

ff. 19v-20r: The Salve Regina in Low German, with the introductory rubric: 'Dyt is Salve egina tzo duytsche', beginning: 'Got groisse dich konyngynne der barmhertzicheit'.

ff. 20r-21r: The opening of the Gospel of John, with the introductory rubric: 'Hic sequitur ewangelium sancti Johannis'.

ff. 21r-22r: The Eight Verses of Bernard of Clairvaux, with the introductory rubric: 'Dicitur quod dyabolus revelavit hijs octo versus sequentes sancto Bernhardo dicens Quicumque eos omni die legerit non condempnabitur in eternum'.

The manuscript contains a few additions:

ff. 1r-6r, 22v-29v: Added hymns in Latin with musical notation; in various 16th-century hands.

Decoration:

Initials in gold with purple pen-flourishing or in blue with red pen-flourishing, with foliate motifs including acanthus leaves shaded with pale blue, green and red. Capitals marked in red.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002048275

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 2444 : Prayer book

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[2445]/040-002048275

Container:

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

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

German, Low
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1425

End Date:

1474

Date Range:

2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 135 x 100 mm (text space: 80 x 60 mm).

Foliation: ff. 49 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 1 unfoliated parchment leaf and 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end); f. [50] is a former pastedown with on its reverse an unfoliated paper pastedown, featuring a printed Harleian shelfmark and pencil inscription: 'Miss.'.

Script: Gothic.

Binding: British Museum in-house; brown mottled calf with gold fillets and the initials 'M. B.' (Museum Brittanicum) gold stamped on the upper cover.

Custodial History:

Origin:

Northern Netherlands or Northern Germany.

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.

Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), II (1808), p. 692 [no. 2444].

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, 1895–97), II (1896), pp. 102-03 (no. 5).

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. 15.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Places:

Northern Germany
Northern Netherlands