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Harley MS 2986
- Record Id:
- 040-002048817
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048817
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x000114
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2986
- Title:
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Breviary, Use of Rome
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-6v: Calendar.
ff. 7r-277r: Breviary ['Ordo Breviarii secundum consuetudinem curie romane']; with a Litany of Saints (ff. 61v-62v).
Decoration:
2 large illuminated intials in colours and gold with acanthus extensions and bezants (ff. 7r, 159r). 1 large initial in blue with red penwork decoration (f. 140v). 8 smaller initials in blue with red penwork decoration (ff. 139r, 141r, 142r, 232r, 236v, 251v, 252v, 262v). Numerous smaller initials in blue with red penwork decoration or in red with purple penwork decoration. Large initials in red. Smaller initials in blue or red. Rubrics in red. Sections of the text in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002048817", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 2986: Breviary, Use of Rome" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002048817 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 2986 : Breviary, Use of Rome - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[2987]/040-002048817
- 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:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 235 x 155 mm (text space: 160 x 110 mm, in 2 columns).
Foliation: ff. 277 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 2 unfoliated parchment flyleaves and 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end); f. [278] is a ruled parchment leaf.
Collation: Indicated by horizontal catchwords, some with simple penwork frames.
Script: Gothic Rotunda.
Binding: Post-1600. 'Harleian' binding of gold-tooled red leather (rebacked); marbled endpapers with the Harleian arms gold stamped on white paper pastedowns gilt edges.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Northern Italy.
Provenance:
The Cistercian abbey of San Sepolcro at San Pier d'Arena, Genoa: inscribed by Humfrey Wanley on f. 1r: 'Hic Codex olim fuit Monasterio Sancti Petri [sic] de Arena, in Civitate Januensi [Genoa]' (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 161).
John Gibson (fl. 1720-1726), dealer; sold to Harley on 23 April 1720 (see Diary (1966), I, pp. 35 n. 1, 197 n. 2; Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 162).
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 ‘23 die Aprilis, A.D. 1720’ (ff. 1r, 7r).
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: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), II (1808), p. 723 (no. 2986).
Stephen Joseph Peter Van Dijk and Joan Hazeldon Walker, The Origins of the Modern Roman Liturgy: The Liturgy of the Papal Court and the Franciscan Order in the Thirteenth Century (London: Darton, Longman, and Todd, 1960), p. 391 n. 1.
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, pp. 35 n. 1, 197 n. 2.
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. 161, 162.
Cyril Ernest Wright, 'Manuscripts of Italian Provenance in the Harleian Collection in the British Museum: Their Sources, Associations and Channels of Acquisition', in Cultural Aspects of the Italian Renaissance. Essays in Honour of Paul Oskar Kristeller, ed. by C. H. Clough (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1976), pp. 462-84 (p. 464).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- Northern Italy