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Harley MS 3349
- Record Id:
- 040-002049180
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002049180
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x0002f9
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3349
- Title:
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French prayer book
- Scope & Content:
-
Contents:
ff. 1r-51v: Collection of prayers, entitled: 'Heures Nouvelles'; containing prayers to Christ, the King, a confessional formula ('La Confession des Pechez'), Litany of the Holy Name ('Les Litanies du Saint Nom de Iesus'), evening prayers ('Prieres du Soir'), Litany of the Virgin Mary ('Les Litanies de la Vierge'), prayers for confession ('Prieres pour dire avant et apres la confession'), and prayers for Communion ('Prieres pour dire avant et apres la Saincte Communion').
Decoration:
Large blue initials decorated with dots of gold, one (f. 2r) featuring a cross. Headings in gold. Rubrics in red. Text frames outlined in gold on every page, with floral motifs in silver and red on blue grounds. Circular diagrams decorated with floral motifs in blue and gold for texts of prayer; large floral decorative elements in blue, green, red, gold, and silver, for empty spaces.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002049180", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 3349: French prayer book" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002049180 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3349 : French prayer book - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[3350]/040-002049180
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- French
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1500
- End Date:
- 1599
- Date Range:
- 16th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 155 x 100 mm (text space: 75 x 50 mm).
Foliation: ff. 51 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 2 at the end); 1 unfoliated paper stub after f. 5 and 1 after f. 35.
Script: Humanistic; cursive.
Binding: Post-1600; gold-tooled red leather; marbled endpapers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
France.
Provenance:
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: sold to the Harleys on13 August 1724 (see Diary, ed. by Wright and Wright (1972), p. 304 n. 7; Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 255).
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 Augustij, A.D. 1724’ (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.
- Publications:
- A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), p. 18.
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.
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. 255.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- France