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Harley MS 2945

Record Id:

040-002048776

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002048776

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x0000dc

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 2945

Title:

Processional

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-171r: Processional, imperfect at the beginning; containing a litany, listing various English saints on ff. 57v-58r, 58v, and 134v-135r, including Aldhelm, Birinus, Edith, Edmund, Edward, Oswald, and Etheldreda, Swithun (ff. 167v-168); featuring musical notation on four-line red staves. Some musical notation erased and replaced with added notation (e.g., ff. 67r-70r).

The manuscript contains a later addition:

f. 171v: Instructions for songs for different processions: 'Processyon in to Bartyllmeus - Christus resurgens / Processyon in to saynte marys - felix namque / Processyon in to saynte pancarcys - felix ieursalem / Processyon in to saynte James - candid facti sunt'; added in the (?) 16th century (f. 171v).

Decoration:

Large puzzle initial in red and blue with pen-flourishing in red (f. 137v). Large initials in blue with red pen-flourishing including foliate motifs. Capitals in black ink with cadels and penwork decoration in brown and red ink (in the lyrics accompanying the staves). Small coloured initials in red or blue. rubrics in red. Paraphs in blue.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002048776

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 2945 : Processional

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[2946]/040-002048776

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1400

End Date:

1449

Date Range:

1st half of the 15th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 190 x 130 mm (text space: 120 x 90 mm).

Foliation: ff. 171 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end); marks of tabs (e.g. ff. 115, 120); 1 unfoliated paper pastedown f. [iii]recto (bibliographical notes).

Collation: Mainly in quires of 8; indicated by catchwords that are written horizontally.

Script: Gothic.

Binding: Post-1600. Brown mottled calf with gold fillets and blind tooling. Marbled endleaves.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

'Thomas', 16th century: his name twice inscribed on f. 171v.

John Wigthorps, 16th century: his ownership inscription on f. 97r: 'this is John Wigthorps boke'.

Unknown early modern owners: their possible pressmarks on f. 1r: '8' and '14'.

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. 2945.

Christopher Wordsworth and Henry Littlehales, The Old Service-Books of the English Church, 2nd edn (London: Methuen, 1910), p. 166.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Places:

England