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Harley MS 3900

Record Id:
040-002049736
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
040-002049736
MDARK:
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LARK:
SLARK:
Format:
ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3900
Title:
Missal; Book of Hours
Scope & Content:

This composite manuscript consists of two separate parts.

The first part (ff. 1r-28v) was written in Dijon around 1579.

The second part was written in Paris in the 2nd quarter of the 15th century.

Part 1:

ff. 1r-29v: Missal, beginning: 'Sequens missa a domino Odoto perroul regis computationum divioni auditore in ecclesia divi Michaelis dicte divionis fundata est'; followed by the Mass of the Holy Cross; featuring musical notation on ff. 10r-13v, 21r-23r, 24v.

Part 2:

ff. 30r-41v: Calendar.

ff. 42r-46r: The life of Christ according to the Gospels.

ff. 46r-49v: Obsecro Te; with a French rubric: 'De notre dame oracio'.

ff. 49v-53r: O Intemerata.

This part contains a later addition:

f. 29v: Added leaf with the arms of a French cardinal in colours and gold.

f. 39r: Added obit in the calendar for October: 'nota: mort de marie ma fille 1594'.

Decoration:

Part 1:

Marginal drawings in colours of grotesques, acanthus and/or floral motifs and scrolls, some inscribed with the name 'E. T. de Galle' or 'Perroul' and the date 1579. 28 large initials in colours with foliate motifs (ff. 1r, 2r, 2v [x 2], 3v, 4r [x 2], 4v, 7v, 8r, 8v, 9r, 9v [x 2], 10r, 11r, 13v, 21r, 24r, 24v, 25r, 25v, 26r, 27r [x 2], 27v, 28r [x 2]). Smaller initials in red with green or purple penwork decoration, in green with red penwork decoration, and in blue with red penwork decoration. Rubrics in red. Ruled in red. Capitals marked in yellow. Cadels.

Part 2:

Three-sided borders in colours, gold, and silver with rinceaux decoration and floral motifs. 6 large initials in colours and gold (ff. 42r, 43r, 44r, 45v, 46r, 49v). Calendar with 'KL' initials in colours and gold. Rubrics in red. Ruled in red.

Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Harley Collection
Hierarchy Tree:
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Hierarchy Record Ids:
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Is part of:
Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

 

Harley MS 3900 : Missal; Book of Hours
Hierarchy:
032-002045828[3892]/040-002049736
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:
1420
End Date:
1584
Date Range:
c 1425-c 1579
Era:
CE
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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 165 x 120 mm [Part 1]; 175 x 120 [Part 2] (135 x 85 mm [Part 1]; 140 x 90 mm [Part 2]).

Foliation: ff. 1* + 53 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves and 3 unfoliated parchment flyleaves at the beginning + 2 unfoliated parchment flyleaves at the end); the second paper flyleaf and first parchment flyleaf at the begining have been pasted together; 2 unfoliated blank parchment leaves after f. 1 and 2 after f. 28.

Collation: Indicated by horizontal catchwords.

Script: Gothic.

Binding: Post-1600: gold-tooled brown diced leather with the initials 'M.B.' (Museum Britannicum) gold stamped on the upper cover; gilt edges (ff. 29-53).

Custodial History:

Origin:

Dijon, North-East France [Part 1]; Paris, Central France [Part 2].

Provenance:

E.I. de Galle, a late 16th-century scribe: his name and the date 1579 inscribed on f. 9r: 'E.I. de Galle 1579'; on f. 11r: 'E.I. D.G.'; and f. 13r: 'de Galle.1579. scrib.'.

Odot Perroul, auditor at the chambre des comptes: his name occurs on several folios: ‘regis computationum divioni auditore’ (f. 1); ‘odot perroul auditeur des co[m]tes a fonde ce prese[n]t office en l’eglise S. Michel a Dijon 1579’ ( f. 9v); ‘auditeur des co[m]pte’ (f. 18v); and ‘Me perroul auditeur’ (f. 27v).

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.

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. 95 (no. 3900).
Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Places:
Dijon, France
Paris, France