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Harley MS 2972
- Record Id:
- 040-002048803
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048803
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x000104
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2972
- Title:
- Book of Hours, Use of Orléans
- Scope & Content:
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Book of Hours, Use of Orléans, including a calendar (ff. 2r-13v). Latin, with some French rubrics and headings.
Horizontal catchwords.
ff. 1v, 110v, 123v, 133v, 208v, 256v are blank.
Decoration:
6 full-page miniatures with large decorated initials and foliate borders, in colours and gold (ff. 14, 83, 111, 124, 134, 209). 7 large initials in gold on red and blue grounds with three-sided foliate borders, in colours and gold, for the Hours of the Virgin after Matins (ff. 31v, 48v, 56v, 61v, 66, 71, 75v). Large puzzle initials in gold and blue with pen-flourishing in blue and red (e.g., ff. 115, 116v, 118, etc.). 12 large KL initials in gold and blue, with pen-flourishing (ff. 2r-13r). Large and small initials in gold with blue pen-flourishing or in blue with red pen-flourishing. Line fillers decorated in gold and blue or red and blue. Capital letters highlighted in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002048803", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 2972: Book of Hours, Use of Orléans" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002048803 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 2972 : Book of Hours, Use of Orléans - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[2973]/040-002048803
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- French, Middle
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1445
- End Date:
- 1455
- Date Range:
- c 1450
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Letter of introduction required to view this manuscript
- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 205 x 140 mm (text space: 110 x 75 mm).
Foliation: ff. 256 (+ 2 unfoliated original parchment leaves between ff. 13 and 14, 1 between ff. 82 and 83, 4 between ff. 110 and 111, 1 between ff. 133 and 134, and 2 between ff. 208 and 209; + 2 paper flyleaves at the beginning and 2 unfoliated original parchment flyleaves (the 2nd pasted to a paper flyleaf) and 1 paper flyleaf at the end).
Script: Gothic.
Binding: Post-1600. British Museum in-house. Diced brown calf; gilt edges.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
France, Central (Orléans).
Artists:
By three different hands, artist A (ff. 14, 83), artist B (ff. 111, 124, 209), and artist C (f. 134), with a border style not found elsewhere in the book.
Provenance:
The calendar includes Liphard of Orléans and his translation (19 October and 7 November), both in red
Owned by Charles Fontaine de Manthelon, 1716 (inscription, f. 1).
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 '13 die mensis Augusti, A.D. 1724.' (f. 1). 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: [n. pub.], 1808-12), II, no. 2972.
Walter de Gray Birch and Henry Jenner, Early Drawings and Illuminations: An Introduction to the Study of Illustrated Manuscripts (London: Bagster and Sons, 1879), p. 17.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)