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Harley MS 2924
- Record Id:
- 040-002048755
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048755
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x0000c3
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2924
- Title:
- Book of Hours, Use of Rome
- Scope & Content:
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Book of Hours, Use of Rome, including a calendar with astrological table and explanatory texts, French (ff. 2r-17v).
f. 1r: an added print, the title page of a Book of Hours, Officium Beatae Mariae Virginis. Nuper reformatum et Pii V pont. max. iussu editum. (Paris, 1600).
Inscribed prayers in Latin, dated 1589 (ff. 184v-186r).
Decoration:
24 small miniatures, in colours and gold, in the calendar (ff. 3v-15r). 14 large miniatures with large decorated initials and full scatter or al antica borders, in colours and gold (ff. 18r, 24v, 38r, 54v, 65v, 67r, 68v, 74r, 79v, 84v, 90r, 98v, 122r, 143r). 5 small miniatures with partial scatter borders, in colours and gold (ff. 20r, 21v, 23r, 34v, 107r). Calendrical diagram (f. 3r). All text pages with partial scatter borders, in colours and gold. Small decorated initials (2 lines) in grisaille on gold grounds. Small initials (1 line) in gold on red or blue grounds.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002048755", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 2924: Book of Hours, Use of Rome" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002048755 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 2924 : Book of Hours, Use of Rome - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[2925]/040-002048755
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- French, Middle
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1505
- End Date:
- 1525
- Date Range:
- c.1510-c.1520
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 170 x 80 mm (text space: 130 x 45 mm).
Foliation: ff. 186 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end).
Script: Humanistic.
Binding: Pre-1600. Gold-tooled brown leather, 16th century, the centre of each cover with a monogram of the letters 'FDB'(?); traces of clasps.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
France, N.E. (Rouen).
Artists:
By three different hands, one in the style of Robert Boyvin (ff. 18, 20, 21v, 23, 24v, 34v, 68v, 90), an associate (ff. 3v-15, 74, 79v, 84v, 98v), and one attributed to the Master of the David Scenes in the Grimani Breviary (ff. 38, 54v, 65v, 67, 122, 143) (see Backhouse 2004).
Provenance:
Unidentified owner, 16th century, perhaps with the initials 'BDF' (monogram on binding), possibly a member of the des Foubeville family.
Inscribed, early 17th century: 'Madelaine des Foubeville' on an added print, dated 1600 (f. 1).
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 '23. Februarij 1720/21.' (f. 2). 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:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: [n. pub.], 1808-12), II, no. 2924.
Janet Backhouse, Illumination from Books of Hours (London: British Library, 2004), fig. 23.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)