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Harley MS 5328

Record Id:

040-002051174

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002051174

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x000351

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 5328

Title:

Book of Hours, Use of Bourges

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-12v: Calendar.

ff. 13r-19v: Gospel readings.

ff. 20r-23v: 'Obsecro te'.

ff. 25r-70r: Hours of the Virgin.

ff. 71r-73v: Hours of the Cross.

ff. 74r-76v: Hours of the Holy Spirit.

ff. 77r-89r: Penitential Psalms.

ff. 89r-92r: Litany.

ff. 93r-123r: Office of the Dead.

f. 124r: Suffrage to St Francis.

f. 125r-v: Suffrage to St Anne.

ff. 126v-127r: Prayer, beginning 'Ave cuius conceptio solemni plena gaudio'.

f. 127r-v: Prayer, beginning 'Deus qui nos concepcionis nativitas'.

ff. 128r-129r: Added prayer, in French, beginning 'O tres dous Jesus', 16th/17th century.

ff. 129v-130r: Added prayer, in French, beginning 'Delivere moi seigneur de la mort eternele', 16th/17th century.

ff. 130v-131r: Added prayer for married people ('Oraison pour gens mariez'), in French, beginning 'Tresdoux pere, createur du lienage humain', 16th/17th century.

ff. 131v-132r: Added prayer for a pregnant woman ('Oraison pour la femme qui porte enfans'), in French, beginning 'Dieu eternal, createur du ciel et de la terre', 16th/17th century.

ff. 132v-134v: Further added prayer for a pregnant woman to the Virgin Mary ('Oraison pour la mesme cause a la Vierg Marie'), in French, beginning 'Tres exellente Vierge, mere de misericorde', 16th/17th century.

f. 135: Ruled parchment leaf.

Decoration:

1 full-page miniature: St Francis receiving the stigmata (f. 123v).

17 large miniatures with large initials in gold on red or brown grounds and full foliate borders including hybrid figures, birds, etc., in colours and gold: St John the Evangelist writing on Patmos (f. 13r); St Matthew the Evangelist writing his Gospel (f. 14v); St Luke the Evangelist painting the Virgin (f. 16v); St Mark the Evangelist writing his Gospel (f. 18v); the Virgin and Child enthroned in a garden (f. 20r); the Annunciation (f. 25r); the Visitation (f. 35v); the Nativity (f. 46v); the Annunciation to the Shepherds (f. 52r); the Adoration of the Magi (f. 55v); the Presentation at the Temple (f. 59r); the Flight into Egypt (f. 62v); the Coronation of the Virgin (f. 65v); the Crucifixion (f. 71r); Pentecost (f. 74r); King David penitent (f. 77r); Job on the dung heap (f. 93r).

Small initials and line fillers in gold on red or brown grounds. Spaces for initials (ff. 124r-127v).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002051174

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 5328 : Book of Hours, Use of Bourges

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[5330]/040-002051174

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

French
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1480

End Date:

1489

Date Range:

1480s

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 105 x 75 mm (text space: 65 x 40 mm).

Foliation: ff. 135 (+ 2 paper flyleaves at the beginning and 1 unfoliated original parchment and 2 paper flyleaves at the end).

Script: Gothic cursive.

Binding: Post-1600. Gold-tooled red leather; marbled endpapers; gilt edges with coloured painting; a blue ribbon bookmark: 18th century.

Custodial History:

Origin: Central France, Bourges.

Provenance:

Apparently made for someone with a special veneration for Francis, as his miniature (f. 123v) was added by the same artist after the rest of the book was decorated.

Added prayers in French (ff. 128r-130r), in a 16th/17th-century hand.

Added prayers in French (ff. 130v-134v), and the initial 'S' decorated with leaves (f. 135v), added for/by a woman since they include two prayers for a pregnant woman in first-person ('pour moy et pour l'enfant que je porte', etc.), in a different 16th/17th-century hand.

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.

Information About Copies:

Select digital coverage: Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts, http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/

Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: [n. pub.], 1808-12), II, no. 5328.

Janet Backhouse, Illumination from Books of Hours (London: British Library, 2004), fig. 37.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)