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Harley MS 2934
- Record Id:
- 040-002048765
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048765
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x0000d1
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2934
- Title:
- Book of Hours, Use of Tours
- Scope & Content:
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Book of Hours, Use of Tours, including calendar, French (ff. 3r-14v).
ff. 80r-81r: prayers to St Barbara, 16th century.
ff. 191r-195v, prayers, including those to St Anne, the Virgin Mary, and St Apollonia, 16th century.
f. 81v is blank.
Decoration:
24 small calendar miniatures, in colours and gold (ff. 3r-14v). 10 full-page miniatures with small decorated initials for the Gospel Lessons and large inhabited initials in gold on red grounds for the Hours of the Virgin, the Penitential Psalms, the Hours of the Dead, the Hours of the Cross and the Hours of the Holy Ghost, and full foliate borders, some including small scenes related to the main image, in colours and gold (ff. 15r, 17r, 19r, 21r, 34r, 46r, 52r, 57r, 61v, 66v, 74r, 82r, 106r, 154r, 160r); 1 miniature missing after f. 22r at the beginning of the Hours of the Virgin. All text pages with lateral bars and full foliate borders, in colours and gold. Small decorated initials (2 lines), in colours and gold. Small initials and line fillers in gold on red and blue grounds.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002048765", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 2934: Book of Hours, Use of Tours" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002048765 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 2934 : Book of Hours, Use of Tours - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[2935]/040-002048765
- 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:
- 1405
- End Date:
- 1415
- Date Range:
- c 1410
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 155 x 105 mm (text space: 70 x 45 mm).
Foliation: ff. 190 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 1 unfoliated medieval parchment and 2 paper flyleaves at the end).
Script: Gothic.
Binding: Post-1600. Harleian binding of gold-tooled red leather; marbled endpapers; gilt edges.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Netherlands, S.
Artists:
Attributed to the workshop of the Master of the Rohan Hours (see Meiss 1967).
Provenance:
Unidentified owner, 16th? century: added arms, de gueules à trois cloches d'or (ff. 2v, 82r, 106r, 154r), possibly the arms of the Costert family of Nuremberg.
Inscribed a name?, 16th century: 'Irenfine sse vout'(?) (f. 1).
Inscribed a valuation, 17th century: 'vaut 5 ff ou 6 ff' (f. 1v).
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 '18 die Januarij, A.D. 1723/4.' (f. 1). 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. 2934.
Walter de Gray Birch and Henry Jenner, Early Drawings and Illuminations: An Introduction to the Study of Illustrated Manuscripts (London: Bagster and Sons, 1879), p. 17.
Millard Meiss, French Painting in the Time of Jean de Berry: The Late XIV Century and the Patronage of the Duke, 2 vols (London: Thames and Hudson, 1967), p. 398 n. 98.
Millard Meiss, with Kathleen Morand and Edith W. Kirsch, French Painting in the Time of Jean de Berry: The Boucicaut Master (London: Phaidon, 1968), p. 147 n. 35.
Millard Meiss, with Sharon Off Dunlap Smith and Elizabeth Home Beaton, French Painting in the Time of Jean de Berry: The Limbourgs and Their Contemporaries, 2 vols (London: Thames and Hudson, 1974), I, p. 329, II, figs. 831-34, 837.
F. O. Büttner, ‘Ce sera moy: Realitätsgehalt und Rhetoric in Darstellungen der Toten- und Vergänglichkeitsikonographie des Studengebetbuchs, in 'Als Ich Can': Liber Amicorum in Memory of Professor Dr. Maurits Smeyers, ed. by Bert Cardon and others, 2 vols (Paris: Uitgeverij Peeters, 2002), pp. 243-315 (pl. 7).
Janet Backhouse, Illumination from Books of Hours (London: British Library, 2004), fig. 24.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)