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Harley MS 2909
- Record Id:
- 040-002048740
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048740
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x0000b3
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2909
- Title:
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Psalter
- Scope & Content:
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Content:
ff. 2-5: Calendar, with a name of a saint has been excised (f. 4r).
ff. 6-142: Psalms;
ff. 143-146: Litany;
ff. 147-166v: Excerpts from the New Testament.
f. 1 is a paper flyleaf pasted to a parchment leaf with various texts in Latin written on the verso. Decoration:
3 large historiated initials in colours and gold with full foliate and acanthus borders (ff. 26r, 87r, 156r). Large 'champ' initials with foliate sprays. Smaller initials in blue with red pen-flourishing and in gold with purple pen-flourishing. 'KL' initials in colours and gold with foliate sprays. Line-fillers in blue and gold. Rubrics in red.
Two initials by the Master of Duke Humfrey's Psalms, c. 1440, according to Scott, Later Gothic Manuscripts (1996).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002048740", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 2909: Psalter" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002048740 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 2909 : Psalter - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[2910]/040-002048740
- 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:
- 1425
- End Date:
- 1449
- Date Range:
- 2nd quarter of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 300 x 210 (170 x 110) mm.
Foliation: ff. 166 (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning and at the end).
Script: Gothic.
Horizontal catchwords with simple penwork frames.
Binding: Post-1600. Brown leather with gold tooling.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England.
Provenance:
Sir William Capell (d. 1515), of Little Hadham, Hertfordshire; son of John Capell of Stoke Nayland, Suffolk; lord mayor of London from 1503-04, and from 1509-10: inscription recording the gift of a 'Valentyn' to him from the wife of Sir Richard Cholmondeley, Lieutenant of the Tower of London, while Capell was imprisoned in the Tower for objecting to pay a fine to king Henry VII's ministers (f. 1v), and an inscription in his hand written on a fragment of parchment bearing the date 1508 (pasted onto f. 2r).
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 available for this manuscript; see the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts.
- Publications:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), II (1808), no. 2909.
Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), p. 96.
Kathleen L. Scott, Later Gothic Manuscripts 1390-1490, A Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles, 6, 2 vols (London: Harvey Miller, 1996), pp. 107, 240.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)