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Sloane MS 2683
- Record Id:
- 040-002115054
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002112337
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000653.0x000170
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165172673.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Sloane MS 2683
- Title:
- Book of Hours, Use of Sarum
- Scope & Content:
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Book of Hours, use of Sarum, made in Bruges for the English market. The manuscript includes:
ff. 3r-8v: Calendar, including English saints: octave of St Thomas, Milburga, Edward, Cuthbert, Richard, Bishop of Chichester, Alphege, Dunstan, Augustine of Canterbury ('Augustini anglorum'), Translation of St Edward, Alban, Translation of St Thomas, Mildreda, Swithun, Kenelm, Cuthburga, Fridewide, and Edmund.
ff. 10r-10v: Prayer to the Holy Face, incipit: 'Salve sancta facies'.
ff. 10v-11r: 'Nomina beate marie virginis.'
ff. 11r-11v: Added prayer in English, incipit: 'Almyghtie God the father of our Lorde Ihesus Christus.'
ff. 12v-25r: Suffrages.
ff. 25v-52r: Hours to the Virgin with the short Hours of the Cross integrated at the beginning of each hour (from Prime to Compline); None is omitted in the Hours to the Virgin and Sext in the Hours of the Cross.
ff. 53v-64r: Prayers to the Virgin: ff. 54r-57v: 'Salve virgo virginum stella matutina'; 57v-58v: 'O intemerata'; ff. 58v-60v: 'Obsecro te'; ff. 60v-61v: 'Ave mundi spes maria'; ff. 61v-64r: the Seven Joys of the Virgin Mary.
ff. 65v-68r: Prayer in ten parts referring to the wounds of Christ, incipit: 'Omnibus consideratis.'
ff. 68r-70r: The Prayer of Bede, rubric 'Oracio venerabilis bede presbiteri de septem verbis christi in cruce pendentis quam oracionem quicumque cotidie denote dixere fexis genibus nec dyabolus nec malus homo ei nocere poterit...' (with the rest of the rubric erased), incipit: 'Domine iesu christe qui septem verba.'
ff. 70r-70v: Prayer to the body of Christ with indulgences, rubric: 'Omnibus confessis et contritis hanc oracionem dicentibus inter elevacionem corpis Christi et tercium agnus dei (a portion of the text, probably including a reference to Pope Boniface IX erased) concessit duo milla annorum ad supplicationem philippi regis francie', incipit: 'Domine Iesu Christe qui hanc sacratissimam carnem.'
ff. 71v-81v: Seven Penitential Psalms and Litany including English saints: Alban, Swithun, Richard of Chichester, and Edmund.
ff. 82v-96r: Office of the Dead.
ff. 96v-104r: Psalm 118 'Beati immaculati' with Psalm 138, antiphons, verses and collects.
Decoration:
26 full-page miniatures, in colours and gold, for major text divisions accompanied by large decorated initials and full foliate borders on the facing page (ff. 25v, 30v, 38v, 41v, 43v, 45v, 47v, 71v, 82v), for minor text divisions accompanied by small initials in gold on red and blue grounds with foliate extensions into the margins on the facing page (ff. 9v, 12v, 14v, 15v, 16v, 17v, 18v, 19v, 20v, 21v, 22v, 23v, 24v, 25v, 50v, 53v, 65v). 1 large decorated initial with a three-sided foliate border, in colours and gold (f. 96v). Smaller initials in gold on red and blue grounds with foliate extensions into the margins. Small initials in gold with purple pen-flourishing or in blue with red pen-flourishing.
The decoration has been attributed to the Pink Canopies Group (see McKendrick, Flemish Illuminated Manuscripts, 2003).
The subjects of the miniatures are:
f. 9v: St Veronica's Veil ('Salve sancta facies').
f. 12v: The Trinity as the Throne of Grace (prayer to the Trinity at the beginning of Suffrages).
f. 14v: St George (Suffrage to St George).
f. 15v: St John the Evangelist (Suffrage to St John the Evangelist).
f. 16v: St Thomas Becket (Suffrage to St Thomas Becket).
f. 17v: St Michael the Archangel (Suffrage to St Michael).
f. 18v: St Mary Magdalene (Suffrage to St Mary Magdalene).
f. 19v: St Anne (Suffrage to St Anne).
f. 20v: St Barbara (Suffrage to St Barbara).
f. 21v: St John the Baptist (Suffrage to St John the Baptist).
f. 22v: St Christopher (Suffrage to St Christopher).
f. 23v: St Catherine (Suffrage to St Catherine).
f. 24v: St Margaret (Suffrage to St Margaret).
f. 25v: The Annunciation (Matins).
f. 30v: Christ praying in the Garden of Gethsemane (Lauds).
f. 38v: The Betrayal of Christ (Prime/Matins of the short Hours of the Cross).
f. 41v: Christ before Pilate (Terce/Prime of the short Hours of the Cross).
f. 43v: The Flagellation (Sext/Terce of the short Hours of the Cross).
f. 45v: The Carrying of the Cross (Vespers/None of the short Hours of the Cross).
f. 47v: The Deposition from the Cross (Compline/Vespers of the short Hours of the Cross).
f. 50v: The Entombment (Compline of the short Hours of the Cross).
f. 53v: The Virgin and Child (Prayers to the Virgin Mary).
f. 65v: Christ as the Vir dolorum (Man of Sorrows) with the Instruments of the Passion (Prayer to the wounds of Christ).
f. 69v: The Last Judgement (Seven Penitential Psalms).
f. 82v: The Office of the Dead (Office of the Dead).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Sloane Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002112337
040-002115054 - Is part of:
- Sloane MS 1-4100 : Sloane Manuscripts
Sloane MS 2683 : Book of Hours, Use of Sarum - Hierarchy:
- 032-002112337[2677]/040-002115054
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Sloane MS 1-4100
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100165172673.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1385
- End Date:
- 1400
- Date Range:
- c 1390-1400
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 195 x 120 mm (text space: 115 x 70 mm).
Foliation: ff. 104 (+ 10 unfoliated flyleaves: 4 modern paper flyleaves at the beginning, 2 medieval parchment and 4 modern paper flyleaves at the end; 2 blank unfoliated parchment leaves after f. 2 and 1 after f. 70).
Script: Gothic.
Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house binding.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Bruges, Southern Netherlands (modern-day Belgium).
Provenance:
References to St Thomas Becket and words 'pape' erased in the calendar and reinserted by a 17th-century hand, eg. 'translatio [added] thome martiris' (f. 6r) and 'Thomae martyris' (f. 8v); miniature on f. 16v with St Thomas heavily rubbed; erased suffrage to St Thomas rewritten in the 17th-century (f. 17r).
Inscribed: 'E Constable', 17th-century (?) (f. 3r, crossed out).
Added prayer in English, 17th century (?) (ff. 11r-11v).
Sir Hans Sloane (b. 1660, d. 1753), baronet, physician and collector: inscribed: 'Bibliotheca Sloanicana Min 248' (f. 3r) and 'This volume was originally No 1985 of the Sloane Collection', with former shelfmarks 'ms. 1870', '[108]', '173', and '248' crossed out (f. 2r).
Purchased as part of the Sloane collection from Sloane's executors and incorporated into the newly founded British Museum in 1753.
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additional Manuscripts: Sloane 2497-2719 (London: British Museum unpublished manuscript of unedited descriptions, no date), no. 2683.
Walter de Gray Birch and Henry Jenner, Early Drawings and Illuminations: An Introduction to the Study of Illustrated Manuscripts (London: Bagster and Sons, 1879), p. 11.
Alain Arnould and Jean Michel Massing, Spendours of Flanders (Cambridge: University Press, 1993), p. 114.
Lilian M. C. Randall, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery, 3 vols (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989-1997), III: Belgium, 1250-1530, 2 parts, I, 227, 229-30.
Scot McKendrick, Flemish Illuminated Manuscripts 1400-1550 (London: British Library, 2003), fig. 2.
Janet Backhouse, Illumination from Books of Hours (London: British Library, 2004), fig. 7.
Eamon Duffy, Marking the Hours: English People and Their Prayers 1240-1570 (New Haven: Yale, 2006), pl. 15 p. 27, pl. 54 p. 82, pl. 106 p. 164, 189.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)