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Harley MS 2910

Record Id:

040-002048741

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002048741

MDARK:

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LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 2910

Title:

Collectar

Scope & Content:

Contents:

f. 1r: List of contents, with an introduction: 'Libellus iste qui collectarius dicitur eo quod propter collectas sive orationes habendas in promptu principaliter scriptus est vel quia in unum eo sunt collecta ea que dicenda sunt a sacerdote ex officium misse'.

ff. 2v-8v: Calendar, including: Benedict (21 March), Adalbert (24 April, important cult in Germany), Peter the Martyr (29 April, in red; Northern Italy) and his translation (7 May; in red), Translatio Dominici (24 May, in red), Basilides, Cyrinus, Nabor and Nazarius (12 June), Ulrich of Augsburg (4 July, in red), emperor Henry (13 July, should be on 15 July; Bamberg), Dominic (5 August, in red), Wenceslas (28 September), the Eleven Thousand Virgins (21 October, in red), Edward (13 October; England), Vedast and Amand (6 February), etc.

ff. 9r-162v: Collectar, with square musical notation (ff. 8v-11, 15v), and prayers to various saints such as Killian of Würzburg (f. 130r); on added strips of parchment are prayers to saints Petronilla and Medard (ff. 122r-122v); Procopius and Praxedis (ff. 131r-131v); Christina (f. 133r); Anne and Martha (ff. 135r-135v); Germanus and Stephen (ff. 137r-137v); Eusebius (f. 141r), Bernhard and Rufus (ff. 143r-143v); Sabina and Giles [Egidius] (ff. 145r-145v); Eufemia and Lambert (ff. 148r-148v); Remigius and Leodegar (ff. 151r-151v), Edward (f. 153), and Quentin (f. 156).

The manuscript contains later additions:

f. 1r: Fragment from a glossed manuscript containing the Pauline Epistles, with red display script; written in Germany in the 9th century

Added post-medieval marginal annotations (ff. 64, 92v, 93).

Decoration:

Large initial in red with reserved lines (f. 101r). Coloured initials in red or blue. Capitals marked in red. Descenders decorated with acanthus leaves drawn in brown ink (ff. 76v, 78r, 80r, 101v, 102r, 129v, 161r). ?Added penwork to a coloured initial (f. 43r).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002048741

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 2910 : Collectar

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[2911]/040-002048741

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 (very thick vellum).

Dimensions: 275 x 180 [f. 1]; 280 x 185 mm [ff. 2-162] (text space: 200 x 125 mm [f. 1]; 190 x 120 [ff. 2-8]; 175 x 110 [ff. 3-165]). Foliation: ff. 162 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 2 at the end); f. 1 is a former pastedown; missing leaf after f. 15; ff. 122, 131, 133, 135, 137, 141, 143, 145, 148, 151, 153, 156 are added strips of parchment; ff. 159-160v are partly excised.

Collation: Indiciated by quire marks (numbers on the verso of the last leaf of the quire) and leaf signatures.

Script: Caroline minuscule (ff. 1r-1v); Gothic [large script] (ff. 2r-162v).

Binding: British Museum in-house; brown half leather binding with the Harleian arms gold stamped on the outside covers; rebound on 12 December 1963.

Custodial History:

Origin:

Germany (? Southern Germany).

Provenance:

Made for a Dominican convent in Southern Germany: see saints in calendar

A Dominican convent in Mainz, 16th century: its ownership inscription on f. 2r: 'Iste liber est Conventus Moguntini ordinis predicatorum' (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 231).

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), no. 2910.

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. 231.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Places:

Germany
Southern Germany