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Harley MS 2999
- Record Id:
- 040-002048830
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048830
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x000121
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2999
- Title:
- Book of Hours, Use of Toul
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
Book of Hours, Use of Toul, including a calendar, written in French (ff. 3r-14v).
This manuscript includes later additions:
f. 2v: a brief catalogue entry of the volume, early 18th century.
ff. 147v-148r: memoranda of births in the Ramberviller family, 1591-1599.
f. 148v is blank.
f. 21 should follow f. 17.
Decoration:
14 large miniatures with large initials mostly in gold on red and blue grounds, in colours and gold (ff. 23, 31, 38v, 43, 46, 49, 52, 57, 61v, 62, 67v, 72, 102, 118). 4 small miniatures, in colours and gold (ff. 18, 19, 20v, 21v). 1 large decorated initial, in colours and gold, at the beginning of a prayer (f. 15). KL letters and the dominical letters A at the beginning of the calendar in blue on gold grounds (f. 3). Pen drawing of a robed man kneeling, arms outstretched in adoration, 17th century (f. 149r). A few small initials (1-2 lines) in red with brown pen-flourishing or in blue with red pen-flourishing. Small initials (1-2 lines) in plain red or blue. Capital letters highlighted in yellow.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002048830", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 2999: Book of Hours, Use of Toul" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002048830 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 2999 : Book of Hours, Use of Toul - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[3000]/040-002048830
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- French, Middle
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1475
- End Date:
- 1490
- Date Range:
- c 1480 – c 1485
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Letter of introduction required to view this manuscript
- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 220 x 155 mm (text space: 105 x 80 mm).
Foliation: ff. 149 (ff. 1 and 149 are paper flyleaves pasted to medieval parchment flyleaves, and ff. 2 and 148 are medieval parchment flyleaves; + 1 paper flyleaf at the beginning and 1 at the end).
Script: Gothic.
Binding: Post-1600. British Museum in-house. Diced brown calf; gilt spine; gilt edges.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
France, N.E. (Toul).
Provenance:
Written for a woman, suggested by the feminine form 'michi peccatrici' (f. 75v, cf. f. 88r).
Ramberviller family, late 16th century: inscriptions record the birth of their children, Alphonse (1591), Louis (1593), Claire (1596), and Jean-Nicolas (1599), mentioning the names of the Godparents (ff. 147v-148r); an added drawing (f. 149r) is signed 'ADR', and the initials are also added in gold in the margin of f. 49r.
Inscribed, 17th century: 'Ex libris Joan. Bapt. Le Brun des Marettes.' (f. 1v).
Inscribed, 18th century: 'Ce livre apartient a ...ilde cl... ... ... ...atis de vinc... Jour de ... 1711(?)' (f. 148r, erased).
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. 2r). 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: [n. pub.], 1808-12), II, no. 2999.
Walter de Gray Birch and Henry Jenner, Early Drawings and Illuminations: An Introduction to the Study of Illustrated Manuscripts (London: Bagster and Sons, 1879), p. 18.
Janet Backhouse, Illumination from Books of Hours (London: British Library, 2004), p. 14 [frontispiece].
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)