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Harley MS 2958

Record Id:

040-002048789

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002048789

MDARK:

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LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 2958

Title:

Office book of Trier Cathedral

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-68r: Office book of Trier Cathedral ('Liber officiarius ecclesiae treverensis collegii'), containing instructions for liturgical readings for feasts of the Temporale and Sanctorale.

The manuscript contains a few additions:

ff. 27r, 68v: Effaced inscriptions, possibly containing notes about ownership.

Decoration:

1 large (3-line) initial in blue with red pen-flourishing including foliate motifs (f. 1r). Smaller (2-line) initials in red (ff. 1r, 37r). Capitals marked in red.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002048789

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 2958 : Office book of Trier Cathedral

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[2959]/040-002048789

Container:

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

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1300

End Date:

1324

Date Range:

1st quarter of the 14th century

Era:

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User Conditions:

Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 165 x 125 mm (text space: 130 x 100 mm, in 2 columns).

Foliation: ff. 68 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 2 at the end); the parchment leaves are uneven and flawed, with a few repairs.

Script: Gothic; written by several hands.

Binding: British Museum in-house; black Morocco leather binding with gold-tooled borders and the Harleian armorial bookplate gold-stamped on the outsides of the upper and lower covers; marbled endpapers.

Custodial History:

Origin:

Western Germany (Trier).

Provenance:

The High Cathedral of St Peter in Trier, 14th century: made for Trier Cathedral according to the prologue on f. 1r (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 331).

'Wilhelmus', 15th century: his name ('Wilhelmi') in an effaced inscription on f. 68v.

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), p. 722 [no. 2958].

Adalbert Kurzeja, Der älteste Liber Ordinarius der Trierer Domkirche: London, Brit. Mus. Harley 2958, Anfang 14 Jh. Ein Beitrag zur Liturgiegeschichte der deutschen Ortskirchen, Liturgiewissenschaftliche Quellen und Forschungen, 52 (Münster: Aschendorff, 1970).

Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), p. 331.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Places:

Trier, Germany