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Harley MS 7398/1
- Record Id:
- 040-002053252
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002053252
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000935.0x0003a0
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 7398/1
- Title:
- Psalter, Use of Sarum, with a Calendar, imperfect
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-125v: Psalter, Use of Sarum, with a Calendar (ff. 1r-6v), imperfect. The calendar features a few 15th-century additions, including St Damasus and the possible consecration of an abbey (‘[...]ysy[n]g of þe abbey of [...]’). The psalms (ff. 7r-112r) begin with the end of psalm 5. They are followed by the Canticles (ff. 112r-121v) and the Litany of Saints (ff. 121v-123v, 125r-125v), which is largely imperfect.
The manuscript contains a few additions:
f. 124r: An incomplete Middle English recipe: ‘for to heale the gall of an horse and not alter þe heare / Take þe grenest of Eldren leaves and stampe’; added in the 15th century.
f. 126v: A (?) letter or note in English, but erased and only partially legible: ‘[...] at the dor and knock and if any man heare my [...]’; added in the 17th century.
f. 127v: A practice alphabet; added in the (?) 15th century.
Decoration:
Initials in gold with foliate decoration and sprays extending into the margins in colours. Initials in blue with penwork decoration extending into the margins in red. Plain initials in blue or red. Rubrics in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002053252", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 7398/1: Psalter, Use of Sarum, with a Calendar, imperfect" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002053252 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 7398/1 : Psalter, Use of Sarum, with a Calendar, imperfect - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[7408]/040-002053252
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English, Middle
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1374
- End Date:
- 1424
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 14th century or 1st quarter of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 210 x 150 mm (text space: 140 x 85 mm).
Foliation: ff. 131 (+ 2 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning + 2 at the end); 1 unfoliated paper pastedown on f. 1r (the handwritten shelfmark: ‘7398’); the lower half of f. 125 is modern parchment; ff. 124, 126-131 are blank (but ruled) parchment leaves, some with later additions.
Script: Gothic.
Binding: British Museum in-house. According to the Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts, III (1808), p. 530, the manuscript was bound together with Harley MS 7398/2 in the Harleian Library.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
William Trentlion, 16th century: inscribed his name on f. 124v (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 331).
John Loquer, 16th century: inscribed his name on f. 107r: 'John Loquer of the parish of' (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 331).
Richard Floid, 17th century: inscribed notes and his name on f. 3r (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 153).
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. 530.
Christopher Wordsworth and Henry Littlehales, The Old Service-Books of the English Church, 2nd edn (London: Methuen & Co., 1910), p. 60.
Cyril E. Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 153, 227, 331, 474.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- England