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Harley MS 3180

Record Id:

040-002049011

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002049011

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x000210

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 3180

Title:

Book of Hours, Use of Troyes

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-12v: Calendar, in French, with saints connected to Troyes and its area, including St Savinien and St Loup in red.

ff. 13r-14v: Reading from the Gospel of St John.

f. 14v: A prayer beginning 'Protector in te sperantium deus sine quo nichil est vallidum'.

ff. 15r-22r: Hours of the Cross.

ff. 22v-59v: Hours of the Virgin, imperfect due to loss of leaves (lacks the end of Matins, the beginning of Lauds after f. 31, and the end of Compline after f. 59).

ff. 61r-68v: Penitential Psalms.

ff. 68r-72v: Litany, with saints connected to Troyes and its area, including Sts Frobert, Thibault, and Savina.

ff. 77r-89v: Office of the Dead.

Rubrics in French.

Decoration:

1 full-page miniature showing the figure of Death shooting a woman with an arrow, with figures defaced, surrounded by a full border in gold and colours with acanthus, flowers, strawberries and a peacock (f. 76v).

3 large miniatures in colours and gold, of St John the Evangelist writing on Patmos (f. 13r), the Crucifixion (f. 15r), and the Annunciation (f. 22v), with large initials in gold on red panels, and full borders with flowers, fruits, acanthus and birds on unpainted grounds.

Partial borders with flowers and acanthus and birds on unpainted grounds on three sides (ff. 40v, 44v, 47v, 52v, 56v) and on one side (ff. 61r, 72v, 77r).

Large initials in gold and colours, some defaced (ff. 56v, 61r, 77r). Initials and line-fillers in red or blue. Capitals marked with yellow.

At least 1 miniature missing (after f. 60).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002049011

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 3180 : Book of Hours, Use of Troyes

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[3181]/040-002049011

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:

1455

End Date:

1475

Date Range:

c. 1460-c. 1470

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 160 x 120 mm (text space: 95-105 x 70 mm).

Foliation: ff. 89 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 1 at the end; f. 60 is a ruled unwritten leaf).

Script: Gothic.

Binding: Post-1600. Binding of brown leather with blind tooling. A gold book stamp cut-out from an earlier binding and pasted onto the upper and lower covers, featuring the monogram 'IHS' with a cross between two stars, above 'MARIA' with a crown, all within a sunburst; perhaps from a Jesuit house. Edges tinted black.

Custodial History:

Origin:

North-East France, perhaps Troyes.

Provenance:

Possibly a Jesuit house, 17th century: a gold book stamp cut-out from an earlier binding and pasted onto the upper and lower covers, featuring the monogram 'IHS' with a cross between two stars, above 'MARIA' with a crown, all within a sunburst.

Pigot: inscribed 'Dec. 30 1701 Pigot' (f. 60v).

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 ‘5 May 1715’ (f. [ii] 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:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), II (1808), no. 3180.

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. 1.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)