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Harley MS 5764

Record Id:

040-002051611

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002051611

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000899.0x00011e

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 5764

Title:

Prayer book

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff 1r-25v: The Psalter of Jerome.

ff. 25v-68v: The Psalter of Augustine.

ff. 69r-77r: The Vigils of the Dead, entitled: 'Officium breve compositum ob venerantiam mortuorum'.

ff. 77r-80v: The Hours of the Holy Trinity.

ff. 80v-86v: The Vigils of St John the Baptist.

ff. 87r-89r: Prayer to the Guardian Angel.

ff. 89r-92r: Prayer to the Holy Spirit.

ff. 92r-93r: Memoria of St Celso.

ff. 93r-93v: Memoria of St Fiacre of Breuil.

ff. 93v-96v: 'Oracio pro domino comite'

ff. 96v-100v: Prayer to the Holy Face, entitled: 'Salutacio faciei Christi'.

Decoration:

7 full-page miniatures with large initials (3 lines) in blue on brown or in brown on blue grounds, decorated with golden acanthus, and full foliate borders including hybrid figures, birds, etc., in colours and gold, at the beginning of the different texts (ff. 1r, 26r, 69r, 77v, 81r, 87r, 97r); related to the group of the Jouvenel Master.

The subjects of the miniatures are:

f. 1r: St Jerome.

f. 26r: St Augustine.

f. 69r: A soul (homunculus) of a deceased man being fought over by an angel and a demon

f. 77v: The Throne of Mercy.

f. 81r: St John the Evangelist with an angel.

f. 87r: A guardian angel protecting a man from a demon.

f. 97r: St Veronica.

All text pages with full foliate borders including hybrid figures, birds, etc., in colours and gold. Large and small initials (2-3 lines) in blue on brown or in brown on blue grounds, decorated with golden acanthus. Small initials (1 line) and line fillers in gold on red or blue grounds.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002051611

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 5764 : Prayer book

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[5767]/040-002051611

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:

1445

End Date:

1465

Date Range:

c 1450-c 1460

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 135 x 95 mm (text space: 60 x 40 mm).

Foliation: ff. 100 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 1 unfoliated parchment flyleaf and 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the end).

Script: Gothic.

Binding: British Museum in-house; gold-tooled speckled brown leather with the initials 'M.B.' (Museum Brittanicum) gold stamped on the upper cover.

Custodial History:

Origin:

Central France (? Angers).

Provenance:

Made for a woman: although some miniatures depict the owner as male, one prayer uses the feminine form 'Ego indigna ancilla tua' (f. 95r).

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:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III, p. 294 (no. 5764).

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Places:

Angers, France
Central France