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Harley MS 2984

Record Id:

040-002048815

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002048815

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x000112

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 2984

Title:

Missal, Use of Sarum

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-117v, 122r-281r: Missal, Use of Sarum; with musical notation on four-line red staves (f. 14v). The litanies include English saints such as Edmund, Swithun, Ethelwold (Aethelwold), Dunstan and Cuthbert (ff. 104r-104v, 268v-269v).

The manuscript contains a few additions:

ff. 118r-121r: Musical notation on four-line red staves that seems to have been added by a contemporary hand.

f. 281v: A prayer, beginning: 'Benedicta es celorum regina et mundi tocius domina et egris medicina'; added in the 15th or 16th century.

Decoration:

Historiated initial of a chalice (unfinished) with a full three-sided foliate border (f. 151v). Large initials with a full foliate bar border including acanthus leaves and foliate feathering (ff. 1r, 138v, 142v, 180v, 183r, 215v), or a partial foliate border (ff. 5r, 52r, 150r, 204r, 221v). 'Champ' initials in colours and gold with foliate feathering (e.g., ff. 13v, 15r). Numerous initials in gold with dark blue pen-flourishing (or blue and red ink mixed together), or in blue with red pen-flourishing. Initials in brown ink with brown pen-flourishing including human faces introducing the music pieces (e.g., f. 14v). Paraphs in blue with red penwork decoration. Some marginal corrections or additions decorated with brown and/or red pen-flourishing (e.g., ff. 16v, 20v, 31r, 36v). Line-fillers in blue and gold.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002048815

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 2984 : Missal, Use of Sarum

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[2985]/040-002048815

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:

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: 240 x 155 mm (text space: 150 x 95 mm, in 2 columns; except ff. 118-[121d]).

Foliation: ff. 281 (+ 5 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 1 unfoliated parchment leaf and 5 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end); 4 unfoliated ruled parchment leaves after f. 121; 3 unfoliated parchment stubs and 2 unfoliated paper stubs after f. [282]; the outer margin of f. 2 and the lower margin of ff. 103 and 104 have been partially excised; many repairs made to the parchment by stitching; parchment bookmarks (ff. 23, 206, 251, 257, 271).

Collation: Mainly in quires of 8. Catchwords written horizontally. Leaf signatures.

Script: Gothic.

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

Custodial History:

Origin:

South-East England.

Provenance:

'R H le molyn[s/e]', 15th or 16th century: their name inscribed on f. [282]recto (read with UV light).

Robert Burscough (b. 1650/51, d. 1709), prebendary of Exeter in 1701, archdeacon of Barnstaple in 1703, rector of Cheriton, bishop in 1705; sold by his widow on 17 May 1715 to Robert Harley, along with other manuscripts (see Diary, ed. by Wright and Wright (1966), I, p. 11 n. 6; Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), pp. 87-88).

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 ‘17 May 1715’ (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. 718.

The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by C. E. Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), I: 1715-1723, p. 11 n. 6.

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. 87-88.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Places:

Southeastern England