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Harley MS 2960
- Record Id:
- 040-002048791
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048791
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x0000f0
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2960
- Title:
- Consecratio olei
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-39v: Consecratio olei; musical notation, on four-line red staves (ff. 13r-17r). This is the same text as in Harley MS 2964, but with part of the text omitted on f. 9r and inserted on f. 34r with a bishop's mitre drawn in the margin to be used as a cue.
Decoration:
Armorial initial in colours and gold with the arms of Ferry de Clugny, and partial border of flowers, strawberries, acanthus leaves and a peacock at the beginning of the text (f. 1r). Bishop's mitre and crozier in colours and gold in the border (ff. 9r, 34r). Initials in colours and gold with a bar border on one side ending in acanthus leaves and flower sprigs (f. 7r). Large coloured initials in blue or red (ff. 8r, 13r, 19r, 19v, 21r, etc.; often with small amount of penwork decoration, possibly added) and smaller coloured initials. Crosses in red or blue indicating when the sign of the cross should be made.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002048791", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 2960: Consecratio olei" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002048791 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 2960 : Consecratio olei - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[7825]/040-002048791
- 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:
- 1468
- End Date:
- 1480
- Date Range:
- c. 1473-1480
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 210 x 150 mm (text space: 135 x 90 mm).
Foliation: ff. 39 (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf and 2 parchment flyleaves at the beginning + 3 paper flyleaves at the end); 1 unfoliated blank but ruled parchment leaf after f. 39.
Script: Gothic (very large script).
Binding: Post-1600. Brown mottled calf with gold fillets and blind tooling.
- Custodial History:
-
Origin:
North-East France (? Tournai).
Provenance:
Ferry de Clugny (b. 1430, d. 1483), bishop of Tournai (1473-1483), cardinal from 1480 (after which date his arms include the cardinal's hat): his arms as bishop of Tournai on f. 1; party per pale Clugny and Tournai. The same scribe (working with the same illuminator) wrote Harley MS 2964 around the same time with the texts in the correct order, possibly also for Ferry de Clugny (unfortunately, the first folio of Harley MS 2964 is missing).
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.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)