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Harley MS 2963

Record Id:

040-002048794

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002048794

MDARK:

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LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 2963

Title:

Ritual for the Anointing of the Sick

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-107r: Ritual for the Anointing of the Sick, entitled: 'Incipit uncio Infirmorum'; beginning with a chant: 'Pax huic domui [Responsorium] et cum omnibus habitantibus in ea. Dominus vobiscum Et cum spiritu tuo', followed by a collect, beginning: 'omnipotens et misericos deus quaesumus in mensam pietatem tuam ut adintroitum in tuo nomine humilitatis nostre hunc [hanc] famulum [famulam] tuum [tuam] .N. in habitaculo hoc iacentem. salutifere visitare digneris'; with rubricated instructions for the priest (e.g. 'Hic ammoneatur infirmus de confessione et dicat Confiteor') and female case endings written above relevant words to adapt prayers for female patients; also including benedictions, litanies, and chants with musical notation on four-line black and red staves (ff. 45v-48v, 51r, 55r-55v, 78v-79r, 80v-81r, 83v, 86v-87r, 89v-90r, 93r, 100v-101v).

One of the litanies includes: Crisogone, Cosma, Damiane, Maurici, Dionisi, Gereonis, Victor, Euvaldi (?Ewald), Nichasi, Gervasi, Prothasi, Crispine, Crispiniane, Urbane, Valentine, Marcelle, Ignati, Tiburti, Valeriane, Vitalis, Alexander, Gordiane, Epimache , Neree, Achille, Pancrati, Nicomedis, Marcelline, Prime, Feliciane, Basilidis, Rufine, Marcelliane, Valeri, Processe, Martiniane, Timothee, Apollinaris, Pantaleon, Felix, Felicissime, Agapite (x2), Donate, Ciriace, Romane, Simphoriane, Prisce, Gorgoni, Prothe, Jacincte, Adriane, Lamberte, Leodegari, Calixte, Quintine, Foillane, Amande, Vedaste, Germane, Fursee, Hilari, Medarde, Gildarde, Germane, Audone, Evurti, Evodi, Gaugerice (Gery: Cambrai, Valenciennes, Brussels), Audomare (Saint-Omer), Bislene (=Belin-Benigne of Dijon?), Winnoce (Bergues in French Flanders), Cuniberte (of Köhln, also honoured in Trèves and Utrecht), Mamerte (Mamert de Vienne?; Orléans), Philiberte (Normandy, Poitou, Burgundy), Ursula (Ursula of Köhln, Flanders), Pelagia, Prisca, Pecinna (Niort, Saint-Quentin), Sabina, Lucina, Emerenciana, Aldegundis (Maubeuge, French Flanders), Waldetrudis (Mons), Gertrudis, Eulalia, Felicula, Sotheris, Hilaria, Columba, Maxelendis (Cambrai), Cunegundis, Julitta (Nevers, Liège, etc), Cilinia (Céline of Meaux, Laon, Reims) [etc.].

The Ritual ends with questions to the dying, entitled: 'Anselmi Cantuariensis Archiepiscipi ad fratrem morti proximum', beginning: 'Sic debet frater proximus morti interrogari' (ff. 104v-105v); a tract on the commemoration of the dead with the rubric: 'Scribitur Ecclesiastici tricesimo Octavo [Ecclesiasticus 38]', beginning: 'Fili in mortuum produc lacrimas et ne dispicias sepulturam eius' (ff. 106r-106v), including an ordination by 'Adam abbas noster' in 1539 ('Anno […] Tricesimo nono super Millesimum Quingentesimum'); and a prayer for priests: 'Pro sacerdote Collecta Sequentia', beginning: 'Presta quesumus omnipotens deus ut anima famuli tui sacerdotis quem in seculo commorantem sacris muneribus decorasti' (f. 107r).

Decoration:

Large and small plain initials in red or blue. Capitals marked in red. Rubrics in red.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002048794

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 2963 : Ritual for the Anointing of the Sick

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[2964]/040-002048794

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:

1534

End Date:

1544

Date Range:

c 1539

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 210 x 155 mm (text space: 140/145 x 95 mm).

Foliation: ff. 107 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 1 unfoliated parchment flyleaf and 2 paper flyleaves at the end).

Collation: Indicated by leaf signatures.

Script: Gothic (very large script).

Binding: Post-1600; brown mottled calf with gold fillets and blind tooling.

Custodial History:

Origin:

North-East France (? Burgundy).

Provenance:

Nathaniel Noel (fl. 1681, d. c. 1753), bookseller, employed by Edward Harley for buying books and manuscripts chiefly on the Continent, where his agent was George Suttie; sold to the Harleys on 16 January 1720/1, according to an inscription on f. 1r (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 254).

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 ‘16 die Januarij, A.D. 1720/21’ (f. 1r).

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.

The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by Cyril Ernest Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), I: 1715-1723, p. 81 n. 20.

Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 253-54.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Places:

Northeastern France