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Harley MS 5762

Record Id:

040-002051609

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002051609

MDARK:

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LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 5762

Title:

Book of Hours, Use of Paris

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 2r-9v: Calendar, including SS Amand of Maastricht, Anthony of Bourges, Aubert, Aventin of Chartres, Blanchart, Boniface of Mayence, Brice of Tours, Clair of Vexin, Desiderius of Langres, Eloy of Noyon, Eleutherius of Tournai, Fara of Meaux, Fiacre of Meaux, Fortunat of Poitiers, Frambourg of Senlis, Fuscien of Amiens, Genevieve of Paris, Germain of Auxerre, Germain of Paris, Gratian of Tours, Guillaume of Bourges, Herculan of Perouse, Hilaire of Poitiers, Honoratus of Amiens, Julien of Le Mans, Landry of Paris, Laumer of Chartres, Lazare of Marseilles, Léonard of Noblac, Léonien of Vienne, Lié of Pithiviers, Lifard of Meung, Louix IX, Mamert of Vienne, Marcel of Paris, Marcellianus of Auxerre, Martial of Limoges, Martin of Tours, Mathurin of Larchant, Nicasius of Rheims, Privat of Mende, Quirace of Provins, Saulve of Amiens, Symphorien of Autun, Theobald of Provins, Vedast of Arras, Véran of Cavaillon, Yves of Tréguier, and Yon of Corbeil.

ff. 10r-21v: The life of Christ according to the Four Gospels.

ff. 22r-87r: The Hours of the Virgin Mary.

ff. 88r-100r: The Seven Penitential Psalms.

ff. 100r-103v: Litany of Saints; followed by prayers to God.

ff. 104r-115v: The Hours of the Holy Cross.

ff. 116r-163v: The Office of the Dead.

ff. 164r-169v: Middle French prayer to the Fifteen Joys of the Virgin Mary, beginning: 'Doulce dame de misericorde'.

ff. 170r-173v: The Seven Requests to Our Lord in Middle French, beginning: 'Doulx dieu doulz pere saincte trinite et ung dieu'.

f. 174r: Memoria of the Holy Spirit.

ff. 174r-174v: Memoria of St Michael the Archangel.

f. 175r: Memoria of St John the Baptist.

ff. 175r-176r: Memoria of St Peter.

ff. 176r-176v: Memoria of St Christopher.

ff. 176v-177r: Memoria of St Mary Magdalene.

ff. 177r-177v: Memoria of St Katherine.

ff. 177v-178r: Memoria of St Genevieve.

ff. 178r-178v: Memoria of All Saints.

ff. 179r-180r: The Seven [sic] Verses of Saint Bernard, beginning, beginning: 'Illumina oculos me'.

ff. 180r-181r: Prayer to the Virgin Mary, beginning: Ave cuius concepcio solenni plena gaudio celestia terrestria non areplet leticia'.

ff. 181r-181v: Prayer to God, beginning: 'Deus qui nos conceptionis nativitatis annunciacionis purificacionis ac assumptionis beate marie semper virginis gaudia recolendo letificasti'.

Decoration:

8 roundels featuring the Signs of the Zodiac with partial foliate borders, in colours and gold, in the calendar (ff. 1-9v); 2 pages after f. 3 (March and April) and 2 after f. 7 (September and October) excised. 14 full-page miniatures with large decorated foliate initials and full foliate borders, in colours and gold, for major text divisions (ff. 22r, 44r, 56r, 62r, 67r, 72r, 76r, 83r, 88r, 104r, 110r, 116r, 164r, 170r). Attributed to the circle of the Master of the Munich Golden Legend (see Backhouse, Illumination from Book of Hours (2004), fig. 39).

The subjects of the miniatures are as follows:

f. 22r: The Annunciation.

f. 44r: The Visitation.

f. 56r: The Nativity.

f. 62r: The Annunciation to the Shepherds.

f. 67r: The Adoration of the Magi.

f. 72r: The Presentation in the Temple.

f. 76r: The Flight into Egypt.

f. 83r: The Coronation of the Virgin Mary.

f. 88r: King David with harp kneeling before God

f. 104r: Christ on the Cross.

f. 110r: The Holy Spirit descends on the Apostles.

f. 116r: A funeral service.

f. 164r: The Virgin Mary nurturing the Christ Child.

f. 170r: The Last Judgement.

All text pages with partial foliate borders, in colours and gold. Large decorated initials with natural flowers (3 lines) and partial foliate borders on recto, in colours and gold, for minor text divisions (ff. 10r, 15v, 19r). Small decorated foliate initials (2 lines) and partial foliate borders on recto, in colours and gold. Small initials and line fillers in gold on red and blue grounds.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002051609

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 5762 : Book of Hours, Use of Paris

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[5765]/040-002051609

Container:

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

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

French, Middle
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1455

End Date:

1465

Date Range:

c 1460

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 175 x 135 mm (text space: 110 x 65 mm).

Foliation: ff. 181 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 1 original unfoliated parchment flyleaf and 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end); f. 1 is a medieval parchment flyleaf.

Script: Gothic.

Binding: Post-1600; blind-tooled brown leather; marbled endpapers; speckled edges in red.

Custodial History:

Origin:

Central France (Paris).

Provenance:

Philippus Moreau, lawyer, owned in 1583: their name with this date inscribed on f. 1r (erased, legible with UV light) (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 243).

Valloris, 1640: their ex libris on f. 2r: 'Ex libria Valloris 1640' (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 336).

Unidentified coat of arms gold-tooled on the spine, possibly 17th century: a fess between three hounds' heads.

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:

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Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III, p. 294 (no. 5762).

Walter de Gray Birch and Henry Jenner, Early Drawings and Illuminations: An Introduction to the Study of Illustrated Manuscripts (London: Bagster, 1879), p. 17.

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. 243, 336, 462.

Janet Backhouse, Illumination from Book of Hours (London: British Library, 2004), fig. 39.

Gregory T. Clark, Art in a Time of War (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 2016), pp. 9-10, 301, Ill. 17.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Places:

Central France
Paris, France