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Harley MS 2987
- Record Id:
- 040-002048818
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048818
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x000115
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2987
- Title:
- Martyrology, Franciscan use
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-7r: Calendar, with numerous entries now erased or emended.
ff. 8r-82v: Martyrology of Franciscan use, with the heading 'Incipit martyrologium pro anni circulum. Secundum sanctam romanam curiam et secundum consuetudinem fratrum [?minorum (erased)]'; added obit in lower margin on f. 68v.
ff. 83r-85v: Added entry for St Augustine, in several 15th-century Italian hands.
f. 7v is blank.
Horziontal catchwords.
Decoration:
1 large puzzle initial in red and blue with pen-flourishing in the same colours, with highlights in gold (f. 8r).
Large KL initials in blue (ff. 1r-6v).
Coloured (3-4 line) initials in blue or red, some of which with pen-flourishing in the other colour.
Guideletters for the initials throughout. Capitals marked in red. Paraph marks in red or blue. Catchwords with brown ink pen-flourishing. Some descenders and paraph marks with pen-flourishing in brown or red ink (e.g., ff. 18r, 28r, 37r).
An unfinished marginal drawing of a woman in brown ink, in lower margin (f. 26r).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002048818", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 2987: Martyrology, Franciscan use" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002048818 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 2987 : Martyrology, Franciscan use - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[2988]/040-002048818
- 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:
- 1350
- End Date:
- 1399
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 14th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 235 x 165 mm (written area: 170 x 100 mm (ff. 1r-7r); 165 x 105 mm (ff. 8r-82v)).
Foliation: ff. 85 (+ 2 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves and 1 unfoliated early modern paper flyleaf and 1 unfoliated medieval parchment flyleaf at the beginning + 2 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the end).
ff. 83-85 is an added gathering of three folios on which additional liturgical material was added in the 15th century.
Script: Gothic.
Binding: British Museum in-house; rebound in 1963.
Collation: Mainly in quires of 12. Catchwords written horizontally and combined with quire marks (Roman numeral on the verso of the last leaf of the quire), with a border in brown and red ink.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Northern Italy.
Provenance:
A Franciscan community, 14th century: 'Incipit martyrologium pro anni circulum. Secundum sanctam romanam curiam et secundum consuetudinem fratrum [minorum (erased)]' (f. 8r).
Adapted for Augustinian use, 15th century: added entries including Nicholas of Tolentino (e.g., ff. 4v, 60r) and St Augustine (ff. 54r, 82v-85v).
Conyers Middleton (b. 1683, d. 1750), fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge from 1706, head librarian of the University Library at Cambridge (1721-50); sold on 25 February 1724/5 to Edward Harley (see Wright and Wright, Diary (1966), p. 341 n. 9; Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 239).
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, HumfreyWanley ‘25 die mensis Februarij, A.D. 1724/5’ (f. [iii]recto).
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.
- Information About Copies:
- Select digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/welcome.htm.
- 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. 2987.
The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by Cyril Ernest Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), II: 1723-1726, p. 341 n. 9.
Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), p. 239.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Middleton, Conyers, fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge and head librarian of the University Library, Cambridge, 1683-1750
- Places:
- Northern Italy