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Harley MS 5074

Record Id:
040-002050918
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
040-002050918
MDARK:
ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x000251
LARK:
SLARK:
Format:
ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5074
Title:

The Lord's Prayer, Ave Maria, Creed, Confession; Sermons (Advent Sunday-Palm Sunday); Passion narrative; Sermons (Easter Sunday-Sunday of the Holy Fathers)

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-4v: The Lord’s Prayer, Hail Mary, Creed, and a confession of the Deadly Sins in Middle German, introduced as a ‘useful book for Christian people’ ('nuttelyc booc den kersten menschen').

ff. 5r-87v: A collection of sermons on the Gospels in Middle German, organised according to the liturgical year: from Advent Sunday to Palm Sunday.

ff. 87v-100v: A Passion narrative in Middle German; according to a colophon compiled from the Four Gospels; the text has been organised according to the liturgical hours.

ff. 103r-203v: A collection of sermons on the Gospels in Middle German, organised according to the liturgical year: from Easter Sunday to the thirtieth Sunday after Pentecost (Sunday of the Holy Fathers).

The manuscript contains a later addition:

ff. 101v-102r: Religious instructions in Dutch, added in the 17th century.

Decoration:

Small initials in red throughout the manuscript.

Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Harley Collection
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Hierarchy Record Ids:
032-002045828
040-002050918
Is part of:
Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

 

Harley MS 5074 : The Lord's Prayer, Ave Maria, Creed, Confession; Sermons (Advent Sunday-Palm Sunday); Passion narrative; Sermons (Easter…
Hierarchy:
032-002045828[5074]/040-002050918
Container:
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Record Type (Level):
File
Extent:

A paper codex

Digitised Content:
Languages:
German, Middle High
Scripts:
Latin
Start Date:
1460
End Date:
1460
Date Range:
1460
Era:
CE
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User Conditions:
Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: 270 x 205 mm.

Foliation: ff. 203 ( + 4 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning + 1 at the end); 1 unfoliated paper stub between f. [iv] and f. 1.

Script: Gothic cursive.

Binding: Post-1600. Harleian binding.

Custodial History:

Origin: Northern Germany.

Provenance:

A German scribe, written in 1460: the dialect suggests an origin in Northern Germany; added a colophon with the year 1460 on f. 203v: ‘Finitus anno domini mo.cccco.lxo’.

An unidentified owner in 1649: an ownership inscription on f. 1 [i]recto has been crossed out, with the text ‘Ao 1649 van A’ left legible.

‘Isaac Jacobs Berens’, owned in the 17th century: his name inscribed on f. [i]recto.

‘Maynert Aryansen’, owned in the 17th century: added religious instructions on ff. 101v-102r, and a colophon on f. 101v with a request for prayers: ‘Die dit heft ghemacct ist maynert Aryansen sin nam bit vor sin sille'

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:

Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), p. 244.

Andrew G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c. 700-1600 in The Department of Manuscripts: The British Library, 2 vols (London: British Library, 1979), I: The Text, p. 145 (no. 826); II: The Plates, pl. 607.

Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Places:
Germany
Related Material:

Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), p. 244.