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Harley MS 2992
- Record Id:
- 040-002048823
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048823
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x00011a
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100056047954.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2992
- Title:
- Gregorian sacramentary
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript and Harley MS 2991 are companion volumes. This volume is the continuation of Harley MS 2991, and has suffered more extensive water damage.
Contents:
ff. 1r-108v: Gregorian sacramentary.
Decoration:
Large initials in brown or red. Rubrics in red. Highlights in red between ff. 63-67.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- England and France 700-1200 Project
Harley Collection - Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002048823", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 2992: Gregorian sacramentary" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002048823 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 2992 : Gregorian sacramentary - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[2993]/040-002048823
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100056047954.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0860
- End Date:
- 0940
- Date Range:
- Late 9th century-Early 10th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Letter of introduction required to view this manuscript
- Physical Characteristics:
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Condition: From f. 109 onward the parchment shows progressively severe damage from damp. Humfrey Wanley reports that the manuscript was already disintegrating in 1724 and records 18th-century conservation efforts by Mr. Elliot (3 November 1724, see Wright, The Diary of Humphrey Wanley (1966)); the top part of each leaf in Harley MS 2992 has been repaired with 18th-century paper.
Materials: Parchment.
Dimension: 180 x 220 mm (text space: 135 x 175 mm).
Foliation: ff. 108 (+ 4 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end).
Collation: Mostly in quires of 8. iii10 (ff. 15-25, ff. 16-17 is an added bifolium); ix10 (ff. 68-69v).
Script: Caroline minuscule.
Binding: British Museum in-house binding; rebound in 1966. Gold-tooled red leather 'Harleian' former covers pasted onto the inner cover boards.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
France.
Provenance:
The Benedictine abbey of St Columba, Sens, founded in 620: late 10th-century and early 11th-century additions related to a late 9th-century or early 10th-century Sacramentary of the Abbey (see Orchard, The Leofric Missal (2002)).
The Cathedral of Saint Cyricus and Saint Julitta of Nevers: late 10th-century and early 11th-century additions are conform with the Sacramentary for the use of Nevers Cathedral; perhaps also added other 10th-11th century additions (ff. 16r-17v, 38r, 70r-73v, 99r, 101r-108v).
Nathaniel Noel (fl. 1681, d. c. 1753), bookseller, employed by Edward Harley for buying books and manuscripts chiefly on the Continent, where his agent was George Suttie (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)): sold to Edward Harley on 13 August, 1724 (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972) and Wright, The Diary of Humphrey Wanley (1966)).
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. [iv] 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:
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- 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), no. 2904.
Augustin Crosnier, Etudes sur la liturgie nevernaise (Nevers, 1868), p. 45.
Augustin Crosnier, Sacramentarium ad usum æcclesiæ Nivernensis for the Société Nivernaise des Sciences, Lettres et Arts (Farnborough: Gregg, 1873; second edition 1969), p. xxxvii (with full textual edition of another sacramentary from Nevers: Paris, B.N. lat. nouv. acq. 1109; and with discussion of an unidentified manuscript that may be this manuscript).
Wilhelm Köhler, 'Die Karolingishen Miniaturen', in Zweiter Bericht über die Denkmäler Deutscher Kunst (Berlin: Reimer, 1912), pp. 52-77 (p. 58).
H. Leclercq, ‘Nevers’ in Dictionaire d’Archeologie chretienne et de Liturgie (Paris: Librarie Letouzey et Ane, 1935), col. 1155.
M. Huglo, ‘Un Nouveau Prosaire Nivernais’, Ephemerides Liturgicae, 71 (1957), 3-30 (p. 28).
C. E. Wright, 'Humfrey Wanley: Saxonist and Library-Keeper,' in Proceedings of the British Academy, 46 (1960), pp. 99-129.
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. 304, n. 7, and p. 320.
François Masai, 'Bulletin codicologique', Scriptorium: Revue internationale des études relatives aux manuscrits, 20, no. 986 (1966), p. 344.
H. Netzer, L’Introduction de la messe romaine en France sous les Carolingiens (Paris: Alfred Baudrillart, 1910; second edition Farnborough: Gregg, 1968), pp. 123-27.
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. 250, 255.
Walter Cahn, Studies in Medieval Art and Interpretation (London: Pindar Press, 2000), p. 188.
The Leofric Missal I, ed. by Nicholas Orchard, Henry Bradshaw Society, 113 (London: Henry Bradshaw Society, 2002), p. 27.
Bernhard Bischoff, Katalog der festländischen Handschriften des neunten Jahrhunderts, 3 vols (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1998-2014), II (2004): Laon-Paderborn, ed. by Birgit Ebersperger, p. 118 (no. 2464).
Richard Kay, Pontificalia: A Repertory of Latin Manuscript Pontificals and Benedictionala (Lawrence: University of Kansas, 2009), p. 75, no. 379.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Notes:
- This manuscript is part of The Polonsky Foundation England and France Project: Manuscripts from the British Library and the Bibliothèque nationale de France, 700-1200.