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Harley MS 5284/1
- Record Id:
- 040-002051129
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002051129
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x000324
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 5284/1
- Title:
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Breviary
- Scope & Content:
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ff. 1r–101v: Fragments of a noted breviary.
Decoration:
Major sections open with initials in colours (ff. 24v, 48v, 66v, 72r, 83v); other divisions marks with two-line initials alternating in red and blue with penwork in the opposite colour; staves in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002051129", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 5284/1: Breviary" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002051129 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 5284/1 : Breviary - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[5285]/040-002051129
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1230
- End Date:
- 1270
- Date Range:
- Mid 13th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: parchment.
Dimensions: 265 × 195 mm (written area 185 × 135 mm).
Foliation: ff. 101 (+ 2 modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and 3 at the end).
Script: Gothic.
Binding: British Museum.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
(?)Augustinian abbey of St Mary the Virgin, Cirencester, Gloucestershire: listed as coming from this house by Gjerløw, Antiphonarium Nidrosiensis ecclesiae (1979), p. 10, but no rationale is provided.
Provenance:
John Grainger (early 18th century): inscribed, ‘John Grainger his booke’ (f. 81r); also the owner of Harley MS 5022 (f. 36v).
‘Thomas Paulter’ (18th century): inscribed (f. 85v).
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, ed. by Robert Nares and others, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808–12), no. 5284.
Lilli Gjerløw, Antiphonarium Nidrosiensis ecclesiae, Libri liturgici provinciae Nidrosiensis medii aevi, 3 (Oslo: Norsk historisk kjeldeskrift-institutt, Den rettshistoriske kommisjon, 1979), pp. 10, 14, 161–62, 179–81, 191, 200–07.
D.F.L. Chadd, ‘The transmission of historiae for the offices of the saints: some preliminary considerations’, in Proceedings of the first British-Swedish conference on musicology: Medieval Studies 11–15 May 1988, edited by Ann Buckley (Stockholm: Royal Swedish Academy of Music, 1992), pp. 87–106 (at p. 94 n. 16).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)