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Harley MS 5780
- Record Id:
- 040-002051627
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002051627
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000899.0x00012e
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 5780
- Title:
- Book of Hours, Use of Rome
- Scope & Content:
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Book of Hours, Use of Rome, Latin, with a calendar (ff. 1r-12v), rubrics, and prayers in French. Additional prayers and liturgical notes added in the 16th century (ff. 40v, 62v, 109r-v). Two late 15th century Italian leaves with a Latin prayer to the Virgin Mary were added at a later date (ff. 61r-62v).
Decoration:
23 full-page miniatures with large decorated initials and full foliate borders, some including birds, peacocks, butterflies, grotesque figures, and a crown (f. 213r), in colours and gold (ff. 13r, 15r, 17r, 19r, 22v, 26v, 31r, 36r, 37v, 39r, 41r, 60r, 74r, 80r, 85r, 90r, 95r, 103r, 121r, 129r, 137r, 159r, 213r). All text pages with partial foliate borders, some including birds, etc. and crowns with fleur de lys (f. 151r-v), in colours and gold. 12 KL initials in gold with blue and red decoration (ff. 1r-12r). Red, blue or gold text (ff. 1r-12v). Small initials and line fillers in gold on red and blue grounds.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002051627", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 5780: Book of Hours, Use of Rome" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002051627 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 5780 : Book of Hours, Use of Rome - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[5783]/040-002051627
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Italian
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1415
- End Date:
- 1435
- Date Range:
- c 1420-c 1430
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 230 x 165 mm (text space: 110 x 70 mm).
Foliation: ff. 218 (+ 2 paper and 2 parchment flyleaves at the beginning and 1 parchment and 2 paper flyleaves at the end).
Script: Gothic.
Binding: Post-1600. British Museum in-house. Diced brown calf; rebacked; marbled endpapers; gilt edges.
Condition: Some miniatures and borders repainted after water damage.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Savoy.
Provenance:
Probably for a female owner, suggested by the form 'famule tue ministre tue .N.' (f. 156v) in the collects after the litany.
In Italy by the late 15th century when ff. 61-62 were added.
Added prayers in different 16th-century Italian hands (ff. 40v, 62v, 109r-v, 120v).
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: [n. pub.], 1808-12), III, no. 5780.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)