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Harley MS 4919
- Record Id:
- 040-002050763
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002050763
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x0001b6
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 4919
- Title:
- Noted Missal, use of Sarum
- Scope & Content:
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Noted Missal, use of Sarum, imperfect.
ff. 1r-6v: Calendar.
ff. 7r:-226v: Temporale.
ff. 226v-229v: Mass for the dedication of the church.
ff. 229v-293v: Sanctorale.
ff. 293v-338v: Common of the Saints with votive masses (ff. 221v-338v).
Decoration:
Full bar borders and initials in colours and gold with interlace and foliate decoration, including daisy buds and occasional grotesques, at the beginning of major feasts (ff. 7r, 10r, 36r, 45r, 150v, 152r, 161r, 180r, 185r, 193r, 195r, 226v, 229v, 239v, 254v, 269r, 276r, 288r, 293v, 294v). Partial stem-border in colours and gold with foliate decoration and bezants (f. 137r). 'Champ' initials in gold set against grounds of red and blue with white tracery and foliate decoration including daisy buds extending into the margins (e.g. f. 31r). Initials in blue with penwork decoration in red extending into the margins. Small plain initials in blue and red. Calligraphic initials with cadels in ink, at the beginning of some chants. Cadels with anthropomorphic features in ink.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002050763", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 4919: Noted Missal, use of Sarum" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002050763 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 4919 : Noted Missal, use of Sarum - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[4919]/040-002050763
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1385
- End Date:
- 1405
- Date Range:
- c 1390-c 1400
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment. Damaged by water and mould (esp. ff. 1r-6v).
Dimensions: 285 x 195 mm (text space: 190/195 x 125 mm).
Foliation: ff. 338 (+ 8 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves: 4 at the beginning and 4 the end).
Script: Gothic.
Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house binding; 19th century; marbled endleaves.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England.
Provenance:
The parish church of Colwich, Staffordshire: the calendar includes the dedication of the church on 29 May (f. 3r; see Legg 1904).
? Thomas Parker (d. 1423 ?), prebendary of Lichfield, Staffordshire: his obit on 5 October (f. 5v).
John Batteley (b. 1647, d. 1708), Church of England clergyman and antiquary: sold to Edward Harley with the rest of his collection through his nephew John Batteley on 5 November 1723.
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, ‘5to die Mensis Novembris, A.D. 1723’ (f. 1r).
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.
- Administrative Context:
- England.
- Information About Copies:
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Select digital coverage available for this manuscript, see Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/welcome.htm.
- Publications:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), no. 4919.
Tracts on the Mass, ed. by John Wickham Legg, Henry Bradshaw Society, 27 (London: Henry Bradshaw Society, 1904), pp. 257-67.
Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books, ed. by Neil R. Ker, 2nd edn, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 3 (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), p. 220.
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. 263 n. 1.
Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 67, 110, 269, 450.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Batteley, John, Archdeacon of Canterbury; antiquary, 1646-1708
Bentinck, Margaret Cavendish, duchess of Portland, née Harley, collector of art and natural history specimens and patron of arts and sciences, 11 Feb 1715-17 Jul 1785,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000115857160,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/2356861
Harley, Edward, second earl of Oxford and Mortimer, book collector and patron of the arts, 2 Jun 1689-16 Jun 1741,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000108078249,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/160524259
Harley, Henrietta Cavendish, Countess of Oxford and Mortimer, née Holles, patron of architecture, 4 Feb 1694-9 Dec 1755,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000030125833,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/6045563
Harley, Robert, first Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, 5 Dec 1661-21 May 1724,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000083423906
Parker, Thomas, prebendary of Lichfield, Staffordshire, d. c 1423