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Harley MS 2932

Record Id:

040-002048763

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002048763

MDARK:

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LARK:

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Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 2932

Title:

Book of Hours, Use of Lyon

Scope & Content:

Contents:

f. 1: Parchment flyleaf.

ff. 2r-7v: Calendar, including, in red: Antonij, Agathe, Nicecii (2 April; Nizier of Lyon), Georgij, Claudij (6 June; Claude of Besançon ), Anne, Inventio S. Stephani, Annemundi epis (28 September; Annemond of Lyon), Francisci (4 Oct.), Dyonisij, Simonis et Jude, Martini; in brown: Lugduni Lupi, Lugduni Desiderij, Onesimi, Lugduni Hyrenei, Baldonien, Translatio sancti nicolai, Lugduni Ypipodi (22 April; Epipode of Lyon), Yvonis, Ragneberti, Lugduni Hyrenei (28 June; Irenee of Lyon), Lugduni Adventus s. Justi (4 August; Just of Lyon), Translatio S Andeoli (Bourg-St.-Andeol), Lugduni Antiochi episcopi, Lugduni ?Diventioli episcopi.

ff. 8r-18v: Gospel Lessons (imperfect at the beginning due to loss of leaves), and account of the Passion from the Gospel of St John.

ff. 19r-28v: Prayers, beginning 'Deus qui manus tuas'; 'Obsecro te'; 'Illustrissima'; 'O Intemerata'; 'Stabat Mater'; 'Ave cuius conceptio solemni plena gaudio'; 'Deus qui nos conceptionis nativitatis annunciationis'; 'Ave ancilla Trinitatis'.

ff. 29r-73r: Mixed Hours of the Virgin, of the Cross, and of the Holy Spirit (imperfect at the beginning due to loss of leaves).

ff. 73v-105v: Office of the Dead (imperfect at the end due to loss of leaves).

ff. 106r-112v: Penitential Psalms (imperfect at the beginning due to loss of leaves).

ff. 112v-115r: Litany, including Saturnine, Yrenee (Lyon), Hylari, Juste (Lyon).

f. 115r-v: A prayer to say after the Seven Penitential Psalms, beginning 'Suscipe domine deus omnipotens hos psalmos consecratos'.

ff. 116r-130v: Suffrages, including to the Trinity, the Holy Face, Sts Michael, Peter and Paul, James, Stephen, Laurence, Christopher, Sebastian, Roch, Denis, George, Claro, Annemond, Yrenee, Nicholas, Claude, Anthony, Eligius, Francis, Bonaventura, Nicetio, Justo, Iubino, Anne, Mary Magdalene, Catherine, Margaret, Barbara, Apollonia.

ff. 131r-132r: Prayers for when you wake up in the morning, when you go out of the house, when you take the holy water, when you enter the church.

f. 132r-133r: Prayers, beginning 'Sancti dei omnes quorum corpora'; 'Sancta Dei genitrix marie semper virginis gloriose'.

ff. 133r-134r: Prayers for in front of the crucifix, when the priest turns around, at the elevation, to the chalice.

f. 134v: Indulgenced prayer of Pope Boniface for between the elevation and the last Agnus Dei, beginning 'Domine Jesu Christe qui hanc sacratissimam carnem'.

f. 135r-v: Prayers for peace, for a storm, for the king, grace for sins, against temptation of the flesh.

ff. 135v-136v: Seven prayers of St Gregory.

ff. 136v-140v: Prayer for the Sabbath, beginning 'Missus est Gabriel angelus ad Mariam virginem desponsatam Joseph'.

ff. 140v-142v: Five prayers to the Virgin by St John the Evangelist, beginning 'Mediatrix omnium et fons vivus'.

ff. 143r-145r: Prayer to say before an image of Christ, beginning 'Conditor celi et terre rex regum et dominus'.

ff. 145r: Commemoration of the Cross, beginning 'O crux splendidior cunctis astris'.

ff. 145v-146v: Prayer which prevents the speaker from perishing by water, fire or sudden death without confession, beginning 'Deus propicius esto michi peccatori miserrimo'.

ff.146v-147v: Seven Psalms of Bernard.

ff. 147v-148v: Prayer for the dead, beginning 'Avete omnes anime fideles quarum'.

ff. 148-149rv: Commemoration for All Saints.

f. 149r-v: The Ten Commandments, in French.

f. 149v: The Five Commandments of the Church, in French.

f. 150r-v: Prayer on the Passion, beginning 'Deus deus meus'.

ff. 151r-154r: Hours of the Conception.

ff. 154r-156r: Hours of St Barbara.

ff. 156r-159r: Indulgenced prayer of St Augustine against, beginning 'O dulcissime domine Jesu Christe verus deus'.

ff. 159v-160v: Prayer, in French, beginning 'Mon benoist dieu ie croy'.

f. 160v-161v: Prayer of St Bernard to say before an image of the Saviour, beginning 'O bone Jesu o dulcis Jesu'.

f. 162r: Prayer to the saints, beginning 'Timete Dominum omnes sancti eius'.

f. 162r-v: Indulgenced prayer said to be written in the church of St John in the Lateran in Rome, beginning 'Domine Jesu Christe rogo te amore illius'.

Lacking folios after ff. 7 (beginning of the Gospel Lessons), 28 (beginning of Matins of the Virgin), 47 (beginning of Matins of the Cross, 106 (beginning of the Penitential Psalms).

Decoration:

2 full-page miniatures in colours and gold with full floral and foliate borders: Vespers of the Virgin, the Flight into Egypt (f. 63r); Office of the Dead, Job on the dungheap (f. 73v).

Further miniatures were probably excised. Faint offprints of miniatures are visible where leaves are missing (e.g., after ff. 28, 105).

9 large initials in colours and gold with floral motifs at the beginning of 'Obsecro te' (f. 19v), 'O Intemerata '(f. 23v), Lauds of the Virgin (f. 41r), Prime of the Virgin (f. 48r), Compline of the Virgin (f. 67v), Vespers in the Office of the Dead (f. 102r), the Seven prayers of Gregory (f. 135v), the Hours of the Conception (f. 151r), and the Hours of Barbara (f. 154r).

Large initials in gold on red or blue grounds. Small initials in gold on red or blue grounds. Line-fillers in red, blue and gold at the litany of the saints (ff. 112v-115r) and at the Ten Commandments (ff. 149r-149v).

Rubrics in red. Ruled in red ink. Capitals marked in yellow.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002048763

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 2932 : Book of Hours, Use of Lyon

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[2933]/040-002048763

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:

1475

End Date:

1499

Date Range:

4th quarter of the 15th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 160 x 100 mm (text space: 100 x 60 mm).

Foliation: ff. 162 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 1 ruled parchment leaf after f. 162 + 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end).

Script: Gothic.

Binding: Post-1600. Brown leather with extensive gold tooling, gilt edges, and vestiges of metal clasps. 'Dorothee' (on a piece of leather pasted on the upper cover), and 'Raimond' (pasted on the lower cover). Previous library and shelfmark details tooled on the spine, largely obscured by later tooling, possibly 'Chateau M... saec. xv...'.

Custodial History:

Origin:

Lyon, France.

Provenance:

Dorothee Raimond: owned, c. 1600, 'Dorothee' and 'Raimond' stamped in gold on the upper and lower outside covers respectively (see Wright, Fontes (1972)).

Previous library and shelfmark details tooled on the spine, largely obscured by later tooling, possibly 'Chateau M... saec. xv...'.

Nathaniel Noel (fl. 1681, d. c. 1753), bookseller, employed by Edward Harley for buying books and manuscripts chiefly on the Continent, where his agent was George Suttie: sold to Harley on 16 January 1720/21 (see Wright, Fontes (1972)).

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 ‘16 die Januarij A.D. 1720/21' (f. 1r).

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.

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Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), II (1808), no. 2932.

The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by Cyril Ernest Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), I: 1715-1723, p. 82 n. 5.

Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 254, 280.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)