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Harley MS 2864

Record Id:

040-002048695

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002048695

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x000086

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 2864

Title:

Breviary, Franciscan Use

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-6v: Calendar, including Nicholas of Tolentino (canonised in 1446) and Bernardino of Siena.

f. 7r: Two hymns, beginning 'Primo dierum omnium quo mundus extat conditus', and 'Nocte surgentes vigilemus omnes'.

ff. 7v-76r: Ferial Psalter.

ff. 76r-79v: Litany.

ff. 80r-97r: Hymns for the canonical hours on various feast days, from first Sunday in Advent to the Purification, including for St Francis (f. 92v-94r).

ff. 97v-99v: Ferial antiphons for before Christmas.

ff. 100r-267v: Temporale, from the first Sunday in Advent to the fourth Sunday in November, beginning 'Fratres scientes quia hora est iam nos de sompno'.

ff. 268r-416r: Sanctorale, from St Saturninus (29 November) to St Catherine of Alexandria (25 November), followed by the dedication of a church, including the Franciscan office for St Louis of France (ff. 368v-370v).

ff. 417r-433r: Common of the saints.

ff. 433r-438r: Office of the Virgin.

ff. 438r-411r: Office of the Dead.

ff. 441r-442r: Right for blessing the table, beginning 'Ordo ad benedicendum mensam conventibus clercis ad praedicum'.

ff. 442v-444r: 'Regule de hystoriis ponendis', followed by a list of feasts.

f. 444r-v: Text beginning 'Iohannes episcopus servuus servorum dei'.

ff. 444v-446v: Prayers to St Bernard and all saints, beginning 'Oliva fructifera i domo dei Bernarde tuis meritis fac nos'

Decoration:

4 large historiated initials in gold and colours containing the coat of arms: or a jay proper perched on a mound vert (ff. 7v, 100r, 268r, 417r), one with sprays of acanthus extending into the margin (f. 7v).

Numerous large puzzle initials in red and blue with red and black pen flourishing. Smaller initials in blue with red pen flourishing or red with black pen flourishing. Numerous small initials in red or blue.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002048695

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 2864 : Breviary, Franciscan Use

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[2865]/040-002048695

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:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 150 x 115 mm (text space: 85 x 65 mm).

Foliation f. 1* + ff. 446 (+ 2 ruled unfoliated parchment leaves between ff. 6 and 7 and 1 between ff. 416 and 417 + 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning and 3 at the end + 4 unfoliated parchment leaves (ff. [1*a-b] and [447-448])).

Script: Gothic.

Binding: British Museum, 1964.

Custodial History:

Origin:

Possibly Portugal.

Provenance:

Andreas Guimarines, Franciscan provincial minster and general commissioner of the Province of Portugal (c. 1611): his ownership inscription 'Ex libris Domini A. Guimarines' (f. [1*a]).

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.

Information About Copies:

Select digital coverage: Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts, http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/

Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), II (1808), no. 2864.

M. Cecilia Gaposchkin, The Making of Saint Louis: Kingship, Sanctity, and Crusade in the Later Middle Ages (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2008), p. 159, n. 23.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)