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Harley MS 5371
- Record Id:
- 040-002051217
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002051217
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x00037c
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 5371
- Title:
- Book of Hours, Use of Sarum
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-6v: Calendar, featuring English saints and with the feast of Thomas Becket and his translation erased.
ff. 7r-7v: A prayer for protection, beginning: 'Domine deus omnipotens pater et filius et spiritus sanctus da michi famulo tuo N. victoriam contra omnes inimicos meos'.
ff. 8r-26r: Hours of the Virgin Mary, imperfect at the beginning.
ff. 26v-29v: A hymn to the Virgin Mary on the words of the Salve Regina, preceded by a rubric that begins: 'Has videas laudes qui sacra virgine gaudes / et venerando piam studeas laudare Mariam [etc.]'.
ff. 29v-32r: Latin prayers to the Virgin Mary, including 'O intemerata' and 'Obsecro te, Domina Sancta Maria'.
ff. 32r-33v: Prayers to the Seven Joys of the Virgin Mary, preceded by a rubric with an indulgence of 100 days granted by 'Pope Clement'.
ff. 33v-34r: A prayer to the Virgin Mary, beginning: 'Te deprecor sanctissima maria mater dei'.
ff. 34r-35r: Prayers to Christ: 'Ad ymaginem Christi crucifixi'; and his Five Wounds separately.
f. 35r: A prayer 'Ad ymaginem Mariae'.
ff. 35r-35v: Prayer to St John the Evangelist, beginning: 'Iohannes Ewangelista tu sacrarij sacrista'.
ff. 35v-36v: Bede, Prayer on the Seven Last Words.
ff. 35v-37v: Prayers to Christ, including 'Precor te pijssime domine ihesu Christe' and 'Ave domine ihesu Christe verbum patris filium'.
f. 37v: Prayer to Christ, preceded by a rubric with an indulgence of 2000 days granted by Pope Boniface, beginning: 'Domine Iesu Christe qui hanc sacratissimam carnem'.
ff. 38r-42r: The Seven Penitential Psalms.
ff. 42r-43r: Psalms 119, 131, 132, 133.
ff. 43v-46v: Litany of Saints; with related prayers.
ff. 44v-57r: Office of the Dead; imperfect at the beginning and end.
ff. 58r-64v: Commendation of Souls; imperfect at the end.
The manuscript contains a later addition:
Rubrics and prayers throughout the manuscript have been crossed out in brown ink.
f. 65v: A string of (?) Latin words: 'abdica vocardo cademix dedius edere fecundat erex cupit'; added in the 15th or 16th century.
f. 65v: An erased inscription, possibly relating to ownership; added in the 15th or 16th century.
Decoration:
Initials and partial or full borders with foliate decoration in colours and gold (ff. 10v, 17v, 19v, 20v, 22r, 23r, 26v, 38r). Initials in gold set against grounds in red and blue with white tracery. Small initials in blue and gold with penwork decoration in red and purple. Line fillers in gold, red and blue. Paraphs in blue. Rubrics in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002051217", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 5371: Book of Hours, Use of Sarum" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002051217 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 5371 : Book of Hours, Use of Sarum - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[5373]/040-002051217
- 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:
- 1350
- End Date:
- 1399
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 14th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 200 x 140 mm (text space: 125/130 x 80 mm).
Foliation: ff. 65 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves and 1 unfoliated parchment flyleaf at the beginning + 1 unfoliated parchment flyleaf and 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end); f. [ii] and f. [iii]; and f. [66] and f. [67] are pasted together; 1 unfoliated blank parchment leaf after f. 1; 1 unfoliated torn parchment leaf between f. 7 and f. 8; f. 65 is a parchment leaf that originally served as a flyleaf. The manuscript is missing various of its original leaves, causing loss of text.
Script: Gothic.
Binding: British Museum in-house: red half leather binding with the Harleian armorial bookplate gold-stamped on the outside covers; rebound in 1968.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
John Batteley (b. 1647, d. 1708), Church of England clergyman and antiquary: his name (f. 1r); sold to Edward Harley with the rest of his collection through his nephew John Batteley on 5 November 1723 (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 67).
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, ‘5 die 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.
- 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. 5371.
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, 456.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)