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Harley MS 3965
- Record Id:
- 040-002049802
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002049802
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000807.0x0001dd
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3965
- Title:
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Gradual, Use of Hereford
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-142r: Gradual, Use of Hereford, imperfect.
The manuscript contains a few later additions:
f. 142r: A letter in Middle English, beginning ‘Ryght trusty and welbelovyd father and mother’; added in the late 15th or early 16th century.
ff. 142r-142v: Latin quotations; one (Psalm 10:6: ‘Qui diligit iniquitatem, odit animam suam’) is inscribed in a banderolle next to a large initial (? ‘Q’) with foliate decoration in brown ink, added in the late 15th or early 16th century.
ff. 143v-144v: The .X. Commandments and XXIII. Psalm in Arabick [printed by Samuel Palmer, London, 1721].
Decoration:
Large blue or red initials with pen-work decoration in the red, purple, or blue; sometimes featuring foliate motifs, zoomorphic (f. 21v) and anthropomorphic faces (ff. 10r, 87v, 108r). Small blue and red initials. One-line initial highlighted with yellow. Full borders in blue and red on f. 104r; partial borders (one- or three-sided) on ff. 102r-103r, 105r-108r, 109r, 110r, 113v, 114v, 115v, 116r-117r, 118r, 120r, 121r, 122r, 122v, 123v, 124v, 125v, 126v-128v, 130r-131r, 132r, 133r-133v. Music bars in red ink throughout.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002049802", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 3965: Gradual, Use of Hereford" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002049802 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3965 : Gradual, Use of Hereford - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[3958]/040-002049802
- 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:
- 1345
- End Date:
- 1355
- Date Range:
- c 1350
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 330 x 230 mm.
Foliation: ff. 1* + 144 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end); f. 1* is a paper leaf; ff. 143-144 are smaller paper leaves mounted onto a paper guard; 1 parchment tab on f. 36, f. 54, f. 69, and f. 92; 1 unfoliated parchment stub between f. 140 and f. 141; 1 unfoliated paper pastedown on f. 1*verso.
Script: Gothic.
Binding: British Museum in-house.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Hereford.
Provenance:
St Peter’s Church, Hereford, owned in the 15th century: its ownership inscription in Welsh on f. 140r: ‘[Thys boke] Eggloys saynt pedes [?] ohemfordd [...] (see Medieval Libraries, ed. by Ker and Watson (1987), p. 221; Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 188).
St Nicholas Church, Hereford, owned in the 15th or 16th century: see the inscriptions on f. 91r: ‘Thys boke ys gewyn unto syn nycelas churche’; f. 116r: ‘Thys boke perteynyd to Seynt N[ico]las’; and f. 133v: ‘this is sent nicolaus ys boke’; and f. 140r: ‘Eggoys saynt nycholas’.
? ‘William [botcote]’, owned in the 15th or 16th century: his name inscribed on f. 141v: ‘the servant of henry vythomas [...] a parrey servant of Roger [y]tan of the parish of lanygon [Brecknockshire]’; and perhaps also on f. 25v (‘William’).
? John Davies (b. c. 1567, d. 1644), owned in the 16th century: his name (‘sir John Davis’) inscribed on f. 8r.
‘? hopkyns ap davyt’, owned in the 16th century: his name inscribed on f. 107v.
? ‘Mey’, owned in the 16th century: according to an inscription on f. 115v: ‘master mey [‘meye’] his master of this boke’ (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 238).
? ‘Rycard Bagge’, owned in the late 16th century: his name inscribed on f. 122v: ‘Rycarde bagge Wrytte thys here ther for maystyrs’.
? ‘Henry Powell’, owned in the 17th century: his name inscribed on f. 101r.
? ‘Thomas Tinck [? Trineh]’, owned in the 17th century: his name inscribed on f. 101r.
‘Mr Baldwyn in London’, owned in the 17th century: his name inscribed on the paper pastedown on f. 1*verso.
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:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1812), p. 99.
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. 438.
Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books, Supplement to the Second Edition, ed. by Neil Ripley Ker and Andrew G. Watson, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 15 (London: Royal Historical Society, 1987), p. 221.
William Smith, The Use of Hereford: The Sources of a Medieval English Diocesan Rite (Farnham: Ashgate, 2015), pp. xiii, xvii, xxx, 13, 79n299, 82-3, 87n4, 98, 108-10, 151n195, 152, 192n134, 193, 195-7, 238, 259-83, 533, 548n183, 551n3, 552-5, 583, 587n12, 594, 614, 619n79, 694, 700, 702.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)