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Harley MS 2939
- Record Id:
- 040-002048770
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048770
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x0000d6
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165167455.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2939
- Title:
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Obituary calendar of the Augustinian convent of St Margaret in Gouda; Rule of St Augustine; Sermon of Bernard of Clairvaux; Usuard, Martyrology; Hugh of Saint-Victor, Expositio in Regulam S. Augustini
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript served as a 'chapter book' for the Augustinian convent of the canonesses regular of St Margaret in Gouda, South Holland, in the Netherlands. The manuscript opens with a necrology, or obituary calendar, from the convent from which was read at the convent's daily chapter meetings together with a lesson from the accompanying Martyrology, and passages from the Augustinian Rule and the commentary on the Rule.
Contents:
ff. 1r-20v: Obituary calendar of the Augustinian convent of St Margaret in Gouda, South Holland, The Netherlands; written in various different hands, and continued until the 16th century.
ff. 20v-26r: Rule of St Augustine.
ff. 26r-28r: Bernard of Clairvaux, 'Sermo […] in vigilia nativitatis domini nostril ihesu Christi', beginning: 'Sonuit vox leticie in terra nostra'.
ff. 29r-130r: Usuard, Martyrology; with entries for St Theobald in May, 'Johannis Anglicani' in October, Jerome, and the (?) presentation of the Virgin added in the 15th century (see ff. 67r, 109r, 113v, 120r).
ff. 131r-142v: Hugh of Saint-Victor, Expositio in Regulam S. Augustini; imperfect at the end.
Decoration:
Numerous initials with reserved designs or puzzle initials in red and blue with pen-flourishing in the same colours (including flowers; occasionally with green wash) sometimes extending into the margins to form a partial border (ff. 21r, 26r, 29r, 31r, 131r).
Numerous initials in blue or red with with pen-flourishing in the other colour, often with green wash. Coloured initials in blue or red.
Paraphs in red or blue. Capitals marked with red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
Medieval and Renaissance Women - Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002048770 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 2939 : Obituary calendar of the Augustinian convent of St Margaret in Gouda; Rule of St Augustine; Sermon of Bernard of Clairvaux;… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[2940]/040-002048770
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100165167455.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1450
- End Date:
- 1474
- Date Range:
- 3rd quarter of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 195 x 135 mm (text space: 140 x 95 mm).
Foliation: ff. 142 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves and 1 unfoliated parchment flyleaf at the beginning + 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end); 1 unfoliated parchment leaf and a blank parchment fragment after f. 130; a detached white paper bookmark in the gutter between f. 29 and f. 30.
Script: Gothic.
Binding: Post-1600. 'Harleian' binding of gold-tooled red leather with the Harleian armorial bookplate gold-stamped on white paper pastedowns on the insides of the upper and lower covers; marbled endpapers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Gouda, The Netherlands.
Provenance:
The Augustinian convent of St Margaret, Gouda, South Holland, The Netherlands, 15th century: the manuscript includes its obituary calendar, featuring the names of many of the community's members.
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:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), II (1808), p. 721 [no. 2939].
E. A. Overgauw, Martyrologes manuscrits des anciens diocèses d'Utrecht et de Liège: étude sur le développement et la diffusion du Martyrologe d'Usuard (Hilversum: Verloren, 1993), I, pp. 414-49.
Koen Goudriaan, 'The Devotio Moderna and Commemoration: The Case of St Margaret's Convent in Gouda', in Manuscript and Memory in Religious Communities in the Medieval Low Countries, ed. by Jeroen Deploige and Renée Nip, The Medieval Low Countries, 2 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2015), 109-54 (pp. 147-48).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)