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Harley MS 2862

Record Id:

040-002048693

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002048693

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x000084

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 2862

Title:

Book of Hours, Use of Sarum

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-12v: Calendar.

ff. 13r-62v: The Hours of the Virgin; imperfect.

ff. 64r-80r: The Penitential Psalms.

ff. 80r-90v: The Litany containing English saints, followed by various prayers to God.

ff. 91r-93v: The Mass of St Gregory; imperfect. The introductory rubric is repeated at the end.

ff. 96r-128v: Office of the Dead.

ff. 128-145v: Commendation of Souls’ imperfect.

f. 146r: A prayer, beginning: ‘Spiritus sancti gracia illuminet cor meum’.

ff. 146v-158r: The Fifteen Oes (Quindecim Orationes); without an introductory rubric.

ff. 158r-158v: A prayer, beginning: ‘Tu domine per has sanctissimas et saluberrimas et redemptrices mundi penas tuas ab inferni penis me liberare digneris’.

ff. 158v-159r: An unfinished rubric in Middle English verse: ‘Jhesu criste in this liknesse / To saynt gregor syng and his messe / In the kyrke that men pantecros calles / That in Rome is withinne the Walles / Aperyd and certeyne wordes kan say / That in Rome wryten is to this day / Wher for gregor gyfes and grauntes’.

Decoration:

5 large initials in gold and colours with acanthus leaves with full border featuring feathering, gold besants and acanthus (ff. 13r, 37v, 53r, 64r, 96r). 2 smaller initials and border on 3 sides in same style (46r, 76v). 1 large initial in colours and gold with feathering and besants on two sides (f. 146v). 1 large initial in red and blue with red pen flourishing (f. 91v). Initials in blue or purple with red pen-flourishing (purple flourishing on f. 14v) or red with purple pen-flourishing. Initials in colours and gold. Small blue or red initials. Line-fillers in blue and/or red ink.

Several early prints were added to the manuscript, although some were (partially) removed at a later point. These include illustrations from an almanac, including the months of November (f. 63r) and April (f. 63v), a partially torn-out almanac illustration (f. 95r), and the month June (f. 95v). One partially removed print featured the Shield of the Trinity (f. 94v). Prints with Latin prayers on ff. 94r, 159v-160v have been largely removed.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002048693

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 2862 : Book of Hours, Use of Sarum

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[2863]/040-002048693

Container:

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

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English, Middle
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1450

End Date:

1499

Date Range:

2nd half of the 15th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 60 x 50 mm (text space: 40 x 30 mm).

Foliation: ff. 160 (+ 2 paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end).

Collation: Mostly quires of 8. Catchwords written on scrolls shaded with yellow.

Script: Gothic.

Binding: Post-1600, gold-tooled red leather binding with gold-stamped at the centres of both covers the 'IHS' monogram with a cross above it and three nails below it. Gilt edges.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England

Provenance:

Thomas ffazaker [ffazakerley], owned in the early 16th century: inscribed his name on ff. 86r [‘Ego Thomas ffazakerley’], 93v [largely cropped], 132r [largely cropped], and 158v [‘Thomas ffazaker’]; the name ‘Edward ffazakerley’ is inscribed on f. 85v (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), pp. 149-50).

? Christopher Bateman (fl. 1698-1730), London bookseller and auctioneer: probably sold the manuscript to Harley on 12 July 1720 (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 66).

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 ‘12 Julij 1720’ (f. [ii]recto [2nd flyleaf at the beginning]).

Edward Harley bequeathed his 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. 716.

Christopher Wordsworth and Henry Littlehales, The Old Service-Books of the English Church, 2nd edn (London: Methuen, 1910), p. 252.

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. 66, 149-50.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Places:

England