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Harley MS 5766
- Record Id:
- 040-002051613
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002051613
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000899.0x000120
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 5766
- Title:
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L'Office de la Conception de la Vierge Marie and other prayers
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-27v: L'Office de la Conception de la Vierge Marie and other prayers.
Includes a prayer to the Virgin Mary for protection against the plague introduced by the rubric 'Oraison à la V. Marie, laquelle fut trouvee au Monastere S. Claire, au Royaume de Portugal, laquelle disant la peste cessa', and the prayer beginning: 'Stella coeli extirpavit' (ff. 19v-22v); a prayer against the plague and other physicial dangers introduced by the rubric 'Autre Priere contre la contagion, la guerre, et la famine', and the prayer beginning: 'Media vita in morte' (f. 23r-25v); a prayer to St Roch for protection against the plague introduced by the rubric 'Antienne de S Roch', and the prayer beginning: 'Ave Roche santissime' (ff. 25v-27v).
Decoration:
Initials in colours and gold (including flowers on f. 2v). Text framed in gold and dark red (f. 1r). Text framed by a double line in dark red ink throughout. Coloured initials in red or gold. Line-fillers in gold.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002051613", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 5766: L'Office de la Conception de la Vierge Marie and other prayers" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002051613 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 5766 : L'Office de la Conception de la Vierge Marie and other prayers - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[5769]/040-002051613
- 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:
- 1550
- End Date:
- 1599
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 16th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 135 x 90 mm (text space: 90 x 50 mm).
Foliation: ff. 27 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end).
Script: Humanistic.
Binding: Post-1600. 'Harleian' binding of gold-stamped and -tooled red leather; marbled endpapers, gilt edges.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
France.
Provenance:
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:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), p. 294.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- France