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Harley MS 7398/2
- Record Id:
- 040-002053253
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002053253
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000935.0x0003a1
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 7398/2
- Title:
- Breviary, Use of Sarum, with a Calendar, imperfect
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 132r-359r: Breviary, Use of Sarum, with a Calendar (ff. 145r-150v), imperfect. The Calendar has various later 15th-century additions, including the feast days of Sts Cadoc, Anasasia, Cyriac and Julitta, Desiderius, Etheldreda, Louis of France, Mathurin of Larchant, Osmund and his translation, Simeon, Thomas of Hereford, and the feast of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary.
The manuscript contains a few later additions:
ff. 359r-359v: Additional texts by different 15th-century hands, including a blessing of the meat (f. 359r), entitled: ‘Benedictio carnis in tempore paschalis’; a prayer to St Giles (f. 359v), beginning: ‘Clementissime christi confessor domini beatissime egidi te suppliciter petimus ne nos derelinquas’; and one for St Oswin (f. 359v), beginning: ‘Ave rex gentis angelorum miles o oswyne’; faded or erased notes on feast days (f. 395v), including one in Middle English: ‘ffro[m] sanct [...] day [...]’.
Decoration:
17 full bar borders and initials in colours and gold with foliate and spray decoration extending into the margins (ff. 151r, 159v, 164v, 169r, 174r, 180v, 186v, 192v, 214r, 233r, 250v, 262v, 276v, 287r, 306v, 316v, 337v), including 5 historiated initials of David playing the harp, the crucifixion of Andrew, the Assumption of the Virgin, the Nativity of the Virgin, and the Virgin and All Saints (ff. 151r, 233r, 306v, 316v, 337v). Initials in gold on red and blue grounds with white tracery and spray decoration old and green extending into the margins. Small initials and paraphs in blue or gold with penwork decoration extending into the margins in red, blue or purple. Rubrics in red. Line fillers in gold and blue. Cadel with grotesque features in ink and green (f. 282r). Written instructions for the borders (f. 262v).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002053253", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 7398/2: Breviary, Use of Sarum, with a Calendar, imperfect" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002053253 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 7398/2 : Breviary, Use of Sarum, with a Calendar, imperfect - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[7409]/040-002053253
- 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:
- 1400
- End Date:
- 1424
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 190 x 135 mm (text space: 135 x 85 mm).
Foliation: ff. 228 (+ 2 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end). The foliation starts at '132' because the manuscript is continuously foliated with Harley MS 7398/1 (ff. 1-131).
Script: Gothic.
Binding: British Museum in-house; marbled endleaves. According to the Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts, III (1808), p. 530, the manuscript was bound together with Harley MS 7398/1 in the Harleian Library.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
South-East England (? London).
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. 530.
Christopher de Hamel, The British Library Guide to Manuscript Illumination: History and Techniques (London: British Library, 2001), pl. 52.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- London, England
Southeastern England