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Harley MS 2852

Record Id:

040-002048683

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002048683

MDARK:

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LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 2852

Title:

Breviary, Use of Rome

Scope & Content:

Contents:

Breviary, Use of Rome, imperfect, with the main text ending mid-sentence on f. 343v.

ff. 1*r-4*v: calendar, imperfect, January to August, including St Bernardino, who was canonised in 1450. Numerous erasures and additions, mostly in a 17th century hand.

f. 344r: astronomical symbols for the Moon, Mercury, Venus, the Sun, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, a later addition inserted upside down, 17th century.

f. 345r: pastedown of a colour engraving of St Roch, 17th century.

2 parchment stubs between ff. 343 and 344 and 1 stub between ff. 344 and 345.

Decoration:

Puzzle initials in gold and blue with red and blue pen-flourishing forming a full border including gold fleur-de-lis motifs (ff. 1r, 149r) or a partial border (e.g., ff. 14r, 17v, 19r, etc). Smaller puzzle initials in gold and blue with red and blue pen-flourishing. Capitals marked in red. Paraphs in blue.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002048683

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 2852 : Breviary, Use of Rome

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[2853]/040-002048683

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:

1450

End Date:

1499

Date Range:

2nd half of the 15th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment.

Dimensions: 110 x 75 mm (text space: 70 x 50), in 2 columns.

Foliation: ff. 1*-4* + 345 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 1 at the end).

Script: Gothic.

Binding: Post-1600. Brown leather with gold fillets; gilt edges.

Condition: The edges of the leaves have been lightly singed.

Custodial History:

Origin:

France, Northern (Paris?).

Provenance:

Possibly owned by the Couvent des Cordeliers, Paris, a house of Conventual Franciscans, as suggested by late 17th century inscription 'des cordeliers' (f. 1*), a pastedown 17th century coloured engraving of St Roch, a Franciscan saint (f. 345r), and the presence of the Franciscan saints Francis, Bernardino, and Anthony of Padua, in the calendar (ff. 1*r-4*v).

Thomas Ballard, bookseller and book auctioneer in London; his sale, 20 February 1720/21, lot 5, bought for Edward Harley through Nathaniel Noel. 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 ‘23 Februarij, 1720/21’ (f. 1).

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), no. 2852.

The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by Cyril Ernest Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), I: 1715-1723, p. 91 n. 17.

Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 62, 129.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)