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Harley MS 863 ff 1-7v
- Record Id:
- 041-003318533
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046692
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100034334254.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100060306568.0x000002
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 863 ff 1-7v
- Title:
- Calendar and verses
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1*r-v: A former pastedown including numerous inscriptions and pentrial of the 13th century and 14th century particularly some Latin verses as 'O Maria maris stella' (f. 1*r) and a note on 'Feria VI'.
ff. 1r-6v: A liturgical calendar with numerous added obits in margins.
f. 7r: Anonymous verses on the Calendar written in a 13th-century hand including a later note in margin dated to 1341.
f. 7v: Verses about a Miracle performed at Exeter. The heading 'In festo reliquarum Exoniensis ecclesie ad processionem' is a slightly later addition. The verses are preceded by an extract of the Pictor in Carmine written by the hand responsible of the added heading.
Decoration:
Large 'KL' letters in red, blue, and green, with penwork decoration. Small initials in red, blue, green, or brown.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046692
041-003318533 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 863 : Psalter ('The Leofric Psalter') with partial gloss in Old English
Harley MS 863 ff 1-7v : Calendar and verses - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0863]/040-002046692[0001]/041-003318533
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
- Part of Harley MS 863
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1173
- End Date:
- 1199
- Date Range:
- 1173-1199
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Dimensions: 300 x 230 mm (210 x 160 mm).
Script: Protogothic and Gothic.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England.
Provenance:
The cathedral church of St Peter, Exeter: a 12th-century calendar with entries related to Exeter including numerous added obits from 13th-14th centuries including that of the lawyer and chancellor of Exeter cathedral, Henry de Bracton (d. 1268) (f. 5v); addition of verses by an early 14th-century hand in a formerly blank space 'In festo reliquiarum Exoniensis ecclesiae ad processionem' (f. 7v); added for 23 May the feast of the relics of St Peter of Exeter, 'Festum reliquiarum ecclesie beati Petri Exon[iensis]', added in the 14th century (f. 3r).
The inclusion of the feast of Thomas Becket provides a terminus post quem of 1173 (f. 6v).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)