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Harley Ch 83 A 37
- Record Id:
- 040-003481436
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002404891
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100099900636.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100161511549.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley Ch 83 A 37
- Title:
- Detached pen-drawing from an English Missal; copy of a grant from William le Poer, lord of Pirton, to the Church of St John the Baptist, Pirton, and its rector Philip for rights of pasturage.
- Scope & Content:
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This leaf was formerly part of a Missal made between 1220 and 1230, belonging to the parish of Pirton, Worcestershire. On the recto is a pen drawing of the Crucifixion, showing the figures of Christ, the Virgin, and St John tinted in green and pink-brown, with a green frame. On the verso is a 14th-century copy of a charter from William le Poer (fl. 13th century), lord of Pirton, granting rights of pasturage to the Church of St John the Baptist, Pirton, and its rector Philip.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002404891
040-003481436 - Is part of:
- Harley Ch : Harley Charters
Harley Ch 83 A 37 : Detached pen-drawing from an English Missal; copy of a grant from William le Poer, lord of Pirton, to the Church of St John… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002404891[0047]/040-003481436
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley Ch
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 leaf
- Digitised Content:
- https://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100161511549.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1215
- End Date:
- 1400
- Date Range:
- c. 1220-1400
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 280 x 170 mm.
Foliation: f. 1 (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning and + 25 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end).
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: Post-1600. British Library in-house (red leather covers).
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England (Midlands).
Provenance:
Church of St John the Baptist, Pirton: inscribed 'Missale parochie de Periton' on the recto, above the miniature of the Crucifixion.
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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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. 6.
The Victoria History of the County of Worcester, ed. by John William Willis-Bund and H. Arthur Doubleday, 5 vols (London: A. Constable, 1901-1926), IV, pp. 180-184.
Nigel Morgan, Early Gothic Manuscripts, A Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles, 2 vols (London: Harvey Miller, 1982-1988), I, pp. 103-4.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)