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Harley MS 5305

Record Id:

040-002051151

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002051151

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x00033a

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 5305

Title:

Benedictional

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-26r: Benedictiones episcopales per totum annum.

ff, 26v-33v: Consecratio olei.

ff. 34r-49: Consecrationes et ordinationes electi in episcopatum'.

Musical notation, on four-line red staves (ff. 36r, 38v, 39r-v, 41v-42r, 44v, 45v).

Decoration:

Small miniature in colours and gold of the ordination ceremony of a bishop (f. 34r). Historiated initial with a standing bishop and full border with besants, acanthus, flowers peacocks, and 2 putti supporting a bishop's coat of arms surmounted by a mitre and enclosed in a wreath (f. 1r). Large initials in red with purple pen-flourishing or in blue with pink pen-flourishing, highlighted with a yellow wash. Smaller initials in red with purple (or blue) penwork decoration, or in blue with pink penwork. Capitals marked with yellow. Catchwords decorated with red penwork and highlighted with yellow.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002051151

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 5305 : Benedictional

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[5307]/040-002051151

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:

1450

End Date:

1499

Date Range:

2nd half of the 15th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment.

Dimensions: 245 x 165 (165 x 105) mm.

Foliation: ff. 49 (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning + 5 unfoliated parchment leaves and 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the end).

Script: Gothic.

Binding: BM/BL in-house. Rebound in 1963.

Collation: Mainly in quires of eight.

Catchwords written horizontally.

Quire marks (numbers in the upper margin on the recto of the first leaf of the quire).

f. [54] is made of a parchment leaf stuck to a paper leaf.

Custodial History:

Origin: Italy, perhaps Venice.

Provenance:

Made for the use of a bishop: unidentified arms with bishop's mitre, and possibly a heraldic device erased from the upper border, 15th century (f. 1r). Added press-mark '142 D. 24', post medieval (f. 1r). 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.

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Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), no. 5305.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)