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Lansdowne MS 381/2
- Record Id:
- 041-002074903
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002074901
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001358.0x0003d0
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Lansdowne MS 381/2
- Title:
- Breviary, Use of Sarum (fragment)
- Scope & Content:
- This fifteenth-century Breviary for the Use of Sarum is incomplete, comprising 67 folios, along with prayers in English and French. Lansdowne 381/1 is a separate volume consisting of eleven leaves from a Psalter created for Henry the Lion in the late twelfth century ('The Psalter of Henry the Lion').
Contents:
ff. 2r-57r: A fragment of a Breviary for the use of Sarum.
ff. 57r-58r: 'How and in what maner men and women of symple connynge mowe thenke or preie in here byginnyng'.
ff. 58r-63v: Two prayers or meditations in English.
Five prayers in Anglo-Norman French:
ff. 63v-64r: Three joys of the Virgin.
ff. 64r-65v: A prayer to the Virgin by five Joys, imperfect.
ff. 65v-66r: A prayer to Sts Mary Magdalene, Agnes and Helen.
ff. 66r-v: Five joys of the Virgin, imperfect.
ff. 66v-67r: 'Sire Jesu Crist'.
Decoration:
Large and small initials in gold with purple or brown foliate pen-flourishing or in blue with red foliate pen-flourishing.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Lansdowne Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002060013
040-002074901
041-002074903 - Is part of:
- Lansdowne MS 1-1245 : Lansdowne Manuscripts
Lansdowne MS 381 : Psalter fragment ('Psalter of Henry the Lion') and Breviary fragment
Lansdowne MS 381/2 : Breviary, Use of Sarum (fragment) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002060013[0246]/040-002074901[0002]/041-002074903
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Lansdowne MS 1-1245
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
-
A parchment codex.
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Anglo-Norman
English
French
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1400
- End Date:
- 1499
- Date Range:
- 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Letter of introduction required to use this manuscript.
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 210 x 140 mm (text space: 135 x 90 mm).
Foliation: ff. 67 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 4 at the end).
Script: Gothic.
Binding: Post-1600. Red leather with the arms of Lansdowne; marbled endpapers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England, W. (Salisbury?).
Provenance:
Inscribed 'LLd No. 62' (f. 1r).
William Petty (formerly Fitzmaurice) (b. 1737, d. 1805), 2nd earl of Shelburne and 1st marquess of Lansdowne, prime minister; purchased by the British Museum together with 1244 other Lansdowne manuscripts in 1807.
- Former Internal References:
- Lansdowne MS 381
- Information About Copies:
- Select digital coverage available for this manuscript; see the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts, https://bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/.
- Publications:
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[Henry Ellis and Francis Douce], A Catalogue of the Lansdowne Manuscripts in the British Museum (London, 1819), no. 381.
Ruth Dean and Maureen Bolton, Anglo-Norman Literature, A Guide to Texts and Manuscripts (London: Anglo-Norman Text Society, 1999), pp. 741, 748-49, 898, 940.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Related Material:
-
From the Catalogue of the Lansdowne Manuscripts in the British Museum (1819), no. 381:
'2. A fragment of a Breviary for the use of Salisbury, written in the 15th century, near the end of which is "How and in what manner men and women of symple connynge mowe thenke or preie in here byginnyng," with two prayers or meditations, likewise in English. These are followed by the five joys of the Virgin, prayers to Saint Mary Magdalen, Saint Agnes, Saint Helen, the Virgin Mary, and Jesus Christ, all in French rhymes.'
- Related Archive Descriptions:
- Lansdowne MS 381
Lansdowne MS 381/1