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Harley MS 2858
- Record Id:
- 040-002048689
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048689
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x000080
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2858
- Title:
- Book of Hours, Use of Rome
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 2r-13v: Calendar, with added names of the months in Middle Dutch or Low German.
ff. 15r-18v: Hours of the Cross.
ff. 20r-25v: Hours of the Holy Spirit.
ff. 26r-31r: Prayer of the Venerable Bede, beginning 'Domine Ihesu Christe qui septem verba'.
ff. 31r-33v: Prayer of Pope Boniface VI, beginning 'Domine Ihesu Christe qui hanc sacratissimam carnem'.
ff. 35r-94v: Hours of the Virgin, Use of Rome (Sext is mistakenly introduced by the rubric 'Ad laudes', f. 72r).
ff. 96r-110r: Penitential Psalms.
ff. 110r-116v: Litany.
ff. 117r-122r: 'Obsecro te'.
ff. 122r-125v: 'O intemerata'.
ff. 126r-128v: 'O bone Ihesu'.
Decoration:
4 full-page miniatures inserted on single leaves, accompanied by large decorated initials on the following page, with full foliate borders, in colours and gold: the Crucifixion (f. 14v); Pentecost (f. 19v); the Annunciation (f. 34v); King David Penitent (f. 95v). A further full-page miniature probably missing after f. 25.
10 large initials in gold on red and blue grounds accompanied by three-sided foliate borders, in colours and gold, for minor text divisions (ff. 48r, 63r, 68r, 72r, 75v, 79v, 86v, 117r, 122r, 126r).
Small initials in gold with blue pen-flourishing or in blue with red pen-flourishing.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002048689", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 2858: Book of Hours, Use of Rome" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002048689 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 2858 : Book of Hours, Use of Rome - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[2859]/040-002048689
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Dutch, Middle
German, Low
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1425
- End Date:
- 1445
- Date Range:
- c 1430-c 1440
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 90 x 60 mm (text space: 50 x 30 mm).
Foliation: ff. 128 (+ 2 paper and 1 unfoliated medieval parchment flyleaves at the beginning and 2 paper flyleaves at the end).
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: Post-1600. Gold-tooled brown leather.
Handwritten Harley spine label tucked inside upper cover.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Southern Netherlands.
Provenance:
Added inscriptions, 15th or 16th century: erased on front flyleaf, crossed out on f. 128v.
Added inscriptions, late 15th or early 16th century: added names of the months in Middle Dutch or Low German (spoken in the Eastern Netherlands and Northern Germany), e.g. ‘Sporkel’ for February, in the calendar.
Nathaniel Noel (fl. 1681, d. c. 1753), bookseller, employed by Edward Harley for buying books and manuscripts chiefly on the Continent, where his agent was George Suttie (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)).
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 '18 Januarij, 1723/4.' (f. 1r).
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.
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- Select digital coverage available for this manuscript; see the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts, https://bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/
- Publications:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: [n. pub.], 1808-12), II, no. 2858.
Walter de Gray Birch and Henry Jenner, Early Drawings and Illuminations: An Introduction to the Study of Illustrated Manuscripts (London: Bagster and Sons, 1879), p. 16.
C. E. Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 253-57.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)