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Harley MS 2982

Record Id:

040-002048813

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002048813

MDARK:

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LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 2982

Title:

Book of Hours, Use of Sarum

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 3r-8v: Calendar.

ff. 9r-13r: The Fifteen Oes [Quindecim Orationes].

ff. 13v-14v: Memoria for St Thomas Becket.

ff. 15r-15v: Memoria for St Mary Magdalene.

ff. 16r-43v: The Hours of the Virgin Mary ('Incipiunt hore beate marie viringis secundum consuetudinem anglie').

ff. 43v-47r: Hymn on the words of the Salve Regina, with an introductory rubric, beginning: 'Ave virgo virginum stella matutina'.

ff. 47v-48v: Prayer to the virgin Mary, beginning: 'O Intemerata'.

ff. 48v-50r: Prayer to the virgin Mary, beginning: 'Obsecro te'.

ff. 50r-52r: Prayers on the Seven Joys of the Virgin Mary, attributed to Pope Clement in an introductory rubric.

ff. 52r-52v: Prayer to the Virgin Mary, beginning: 'Te deprecor sanctissima Maria mater dei'.

ff. 53r-55r: Sequence of prayers on the Crucifixion, with separate prayers for the wood of the Cross, Christ's wounds from the Crown of Thorns, and each of the Five Wounds, the Virgin Mary, and St John the Baptist, beginning: 'Omnibus consideratis paradisus voluptatis'.

ff. 55r-56v: Bede, Prayers on the Seven Last Words of Christ, with an introductory rubric.

ff. 56v-57r: Prayer to Christ, beginning: 'Precor te pijssime domine ihesu Christe'.

ff. 57r-57v: Prayer to Christ, beginning: 'Ave domine ihesu Christe verbum patris'.

f. 57v: Prayer to Christ, beginning: 'Ave verum corpus natum de maria virgine'.

f. 57v: Prayer to Christ, beginning: 'Ave caro Christi'.

f. 57v: Prayer to Christ, beginning: 'Anima Christi'.

ff. 57v-58r: Prayer to Christ, with an introductory rubric ('Omnibus confessis et contritis hanc oracionem dicentibus inter elevacionem corporis Christi et tercium agnus dei Dominus papa Bonefacius concessit duo milia annorum indulgentiarum ad supplicacionem Philippi regis francie'), beginning: 'Domine ihesu Christe qui hanc sacratissimam carnem tuam'.

ff. 58r-58v: Prayer to Christ, beginning: 'Deus propicius esto michi peccatori'.

ff. 58v-59r: Prayer to God, beginning: 'Deus qui voluisti pro redempcione mundi a iudeis reprobari'.

ff. 59v-64r: The Seven Penitential Psalms.

f. 64r: The Fifteen Gradual Psalms ('Incipit quindecim psalmi').

ff. 64v-65r: Psalms 131-133, beginning: 'Memento domine David et omnis mansuetudinis eius'.

ff. 65r-70v: Litany of Saints.

ff. 71r-84r: Office of the Dead.

ff. 84v-92r: Commendation of the Souls.

ff. 92v-95v: Psalms of the Passion ('Incipit psalterium de passione domini').

ff. 96r-103v: The Psalter of St Jerome ('Incipit psalterium beati iheronimi'), with an introductory rubric.

The manuscript contains a few additions:

ff. 1r, 2r: Latin and Greek inscriptions; added in the 15th and 16th century.

f. 95v: Prayer to Christ, beginning: 'Christus factus est'; added in the 15th century.

f. 95v: Prayer to Christ, beginning: 'Respice, quaesumus, Domine, super hanc familiam tuam'; added in the 15th century.

f. 103v: Prayer to St Dorothy: '[A]ve gemina virtuosa dorothea vernans rosa sis pro nobis gloriosa'; added in the 15th century.

f. 103v: Prayer to St Dorothy, beginning: 'Omnipotens sempiterne deus in cuius nomine gloriosa virgo et martir dorothea multorum genera tormentorum suorum superavit'; added in the 15th century.

Decoration:

20 large miniatures in the style of the Master of the Gold Scrolls, with large decorated initials and three-sided foliate borders, in colours and gold, featuring the Mass of St Gregory (f. 9r); Martyrdom of Thomas Becket (f. 13v); Mary Magdalene (f. 15r); Agony in the Garden (f. 16r); Arrest of Christ (f. 21r); Christ before Pilate (f. 29r); Flagellation of Christ (f. 31v); Christ carrying the Cross (f. 33v); Crucifixion (f. 35v); Deposition (f. 37v); Entombment (f. 40v); Death of the Virgin Mary (f. 44r); The Virgin Mary seated in front of God the Father (f. 50v); Crucified Christ in front but not on the Cross, flanked by angels (f. 53r); The Pietà (f. 55v); Christ in Majesty (f. 59v); Funeral (f. 71r); Angels carrying souls to heaven (f. 84v); Christ resurrected (f. 92v); St Jerome (f. 97r). 2 large initials in gold on red and blue grounds with foliate extensions into the margins, at the beginning of prayers (ff. 47v, 48v). Small initials (2 lines) in gold on red and blue grounds. Small initials in gold with blue pen-flourishing or in blue with red pen-flourishing. Line-fillers decorated in red and blue.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002048813

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 2982 : Book of Hours, Use of Sarum

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[2983]/040-002048813

Container:

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

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Greek, Ancient
Latin

Scripts:

Greek
Latin

Start Date:

1425

End Date:

1474

Date Range:

2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 200 x 135 mm (text space: 130 x 75 mm).

Foliation: ff. 103 (+ 1 paper flyleaf at the beginning + 1 at the end); ff. 1-2 are medieval parchment flyleaves.

Collation: Indicated by catchwords.

Script: Gothic.

Binding: British Museum in-house; diced brown calf with gold tooled fillets and the initials 'M. B.' (Museum Brittanicum) gold stamped on the outside upper cover.

Custodial History:

Origin:

Southern Netherlands.

Provenance:

Richard Dayslay [or Payslay], clerk, 16th century: his name inscribed on f. 103v: 'Dominus Richardus Dayslay [Payslay] clericus'.

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, p. 723 [no. 2982].

Walter de Gray Birch and Henry Jenner, Early Drawings and Illuminations: An Introduction to the Study of Illustrated Manuscripts (London: Bagster, 1879), p. 15.

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

Masters and Miniatures: Proceedings of the Congress on Medieval Manuscript Illumination in the Nothern Netherlands (Utrecht, 10-13 December 1989), ed. by Koert van der Horst and Johann-Christian Klamt (Doornspijk: Davaco, 1991), p. 96 n. 63.

The Splendor of the Word: Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts at the New York Public Library, ed. by Jonathan J. G. Alexander, James H. Marrow, and Lucy Freeman Sandler (London: Harvey Miller, 2005), p. 291 n. 16 [exhibition catalogue].

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Bede the Venerable, Saint, c 673-735,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000120962352,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/61539765

Places:

Southern Netherlands