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Harley MS 2896
- Record Id:
- 040-002048727
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048727
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x0000a6
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2896
- Title:
- Missal, with musical notation
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-139r: Missal, with musical notation; with marginal instructions for songs (with musical notation), prayers and postures (ff. 25r, 26r, 27v, 28v, 57v, 58r) added by a 16th-century hand.
ff. 139v-140r: An index of liturgical feasts, entitled: 'Index eorum que in hoc opusculo tractantur'.
ff. 141r-143v: Prayers and lections for the feast of St Peter and St Paul.
ff. 144r-144v: Common of Apostles (with musical notation), beginning: 'Vere dignum et justum est'.
The manuscript contains a later addition:
f. 55v: A prayer, beginning: 'Benedicta es celorum regina et mundi tocius domina et egris medicina'; added in the same 16th-century hand as the marginal instructions.
Decoration:
1 full-page miniature in colours and gold of the Crucifixion with the Virgin Mary and John the Evangelist, with a full border inhabited by birds and flowers, and, in the lower margin, a jewelled cross in a subsidiary medallion (f. 56v) [facing page with the first prayer of the canon of the mass 'Te igitur']. 1 added miniature in colours and gold of the Virgin Mary, her mother Anne, and the infant Christ (pasted onto f. 140r). Large initials in blue or red with penwork decoration or pen-flourishing in red and/or green. Plain initials in red or blue, some large, some small. Rubrics in red. Capitals marked in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002048727", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 2896: Missal, with musical notation" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002048727 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 2896 : Missal, with musical notation - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[2897]/040-002048727
- 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:
- 1500
- End Date:
- 1549
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 16th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 250 x 165 mm (text space: 180 x 115 mm, in 2 columns).
Foliation: ff. 144 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves and 1 parchment flyleaf at the beginning + 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end); ff. [ii] and [145] are paper flyleaves pasted to parchment ones; 1 unfoliated parchment stub between f. [ii] and f. [iii]; and f. [iii] and f. 1.
Script: Gothic. Written by more than one scribe.
Binding: Post-1600. Tan leather with gold-tooling.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Northern Netherlands.
Provenance:
An unknown owner: their erased (?) ownership inscription on f. [iii]recto.
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.
- Publications:
- A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), II (1808), p. 718.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- Northern Netherlands