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Harley MS 2848

Record Id:

040-002048679

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002048679

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x000076

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 2848

Title:

Prayer book

Scope & Content:

This composite prayer book consists of four parts (ff. 1-30, 31-55, 56-59, 60-70) that were produced separately by different scribes. The style of decoration of the second part suggest that the whole manuscript originates from Germany or the Low Countries.

Contents:

ff. 1r-26r: The Fifteen Oes, here attributed to St Bridget of Sweden in a short rubric: 'Oraciones XV Sancte brigitte'.

ff. 26r-27r: 'Domine iesu Christe fili dei vivi per merita gloriosissime virginis marie dulcissime matris tue suscipe hanc oracionem'.

ff. 27r-28r: Prayer ('Collecta') to Christ, beginning: 'Omnipotens sempiterne deus qui humanum genus in quinque vulneribus fili tui domini nostri Jesu Christi benedicti redimere dignatus es'

ff. 28r-29r: Prayer to Christ ('Collecta ad filium per matrem'), beginning: 'Domine Jesu Christe fili dei vivi ad honorem, venerationem, et gloriam tremende passionis vulnerationis et mortis tue'.

ff. 29r-30v: Prayer to the Virgin Mary ('Ad virginem mariam'), beginning: 'O dulcissima virgo maria ego famulus tuus licet indignus'.

f. 30v: Prayer for the Elevation ('In elevacione corporis Christi'), beginning: 'Anima Christi sanctifica me'; imperfect due to the loss of folios.

ff. 31r-31v: Psalm 112-113.

ff. 32r-47v: The Hours of the Virgin, with the rubric: 'Incipiunt hore gloriosissime deo genitrices marie ad matutinas eiusdem'.

ff. 47v-50r The Seven Penitential Psalms.

ff. 50r-55v: Litany of Saints, followed by 'Preces minores' and 'Preces maiores'.

ff. 56r-59r: Prayer to Christ, entitled: 'Oratio pia atque devota', beginning: 'Domine si vis potes me mundare'.

f. 59v: 'Verba magne agonizanti in aurem suggerenda'.

ff. 60r-70v: 'Oraciones ante celebrationem misse', and other prayers.

Decoration:

Initials in blue or red. Rubrics in red.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002048679

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 2848 : Prayer book

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[2849]/040-002048679

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:

1499

Date Range:

15th century

Era:

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User Conditions:

Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment (ff. 1-31); paper (ff. 32-70).

Dimension: 110 x 65 mm.

Foliation: ff. 70 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end); 1 unfoliated blank parchment leaf after f. 30 and 1 after f. 43; 1 unfoliated paper tab on f. 32r and f. 60r.

Script: Gothic; Gothic cursive.

Binding: British Museum in-house; gold tooled brown speckled leather; marbled endleaves.

Custodial History:

Origin:

Germany or The 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 forms 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. 715.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Places:

Germany
Netherlands, Europe