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Detailed record for Harley 2982
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| Title |
Book of Hours, Use of Sarum |
| Origin |
Netherlands, S. |
| Date |
2nd quarter of the 15th century |
| Language |
Latin |
| Script |
Gothic |
| Artists |
In the style of the Master of the Gold Scrolls |
| Decoration |
20 large miniatures with large decorated initials and three-sided foliate borders, in colours and gold (ff. 9, 13v, 15, 16, 21, 29, 31v, 33v, 35v, 37v, 40v, 44, 50v, 53, 55v, 59v, 71, 84v, 92v, 97). 2 large initials in gold on red and blue grounds with foliate extensions into the margins, at the beginning of prayers (ff. 47v, 48v). Small initials (2 lines) in gold on red and blue grounds. Small initials in gold with blue pen-flourishing or in blue with red pen-flourishing. Line-fillers decorated in red and blue. |
| Dimensions in mm |
200 x 135 (130 x 75) |
| Official foliation |
ff. 103 (ff. 1-2 are medieval parchment flyleaves; + 1 paper flyleaf at the beginning and 1 at the end) |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
BM/BL in-house. Diced brown calf. |
| Provenance |
Inscriptions, 15th century (ff. 1, 2).
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. |
| Select bibliography |
A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: [n. pub.], 1808-12), II, no. 2982.
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. 15.
Christopher Wordsworth and Henry Littlehales, The Old Service-Books of the English Church, 2nd edn (London: Methuen & Co., 1910), pl. XXXVI.
Masters and Miniatures: Proceedings of the Congress on Medieval Manuscript Illumination in the Nothern Netherlands (Utrecht, 10-13 December 1989), ed. by Koert van der Horst and Johann-Christian Klamt (Doornspijk: Davaco, 1991),
p. 96 n. 63.
The Splendor of the Word: Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts at the New York Public Library, ed. by Jonathan J. G. Alexander, James H. Marrow, and Lucy Freeman Sandler (London: Harvey Miller, 2005), p. 291 n. 16 [exhibition catalogue]. |
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f. 9
Mass of St Gregory |
f. 9
Mass of St Gregory |
f. 13v
Thomas Becket |
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f. 13v
Thomas Becket |
f. 15
Mary Magdalene. |
f. 16
Agony in the Garden |
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f. 16
Agony in the Garden |
f. 29
Christ before Pilate |
f. 31v
Flagellation of Christ |
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f. 33v
Christ carrying the Cross |
f. 35v
Crucifixion |
f. 37v
Deposition |
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f. 40v
Entombment |
f. 41
Arrest of Christ |
f. 44
Death of the Virgin |
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f. 47v
Illuminated initial |
f. 50v
God |
f. 53
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f. 59v
Christ in Majesty |
f. 92v
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f. 97
Jerome |
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