Blackburn’s ‘Worthy Citizen’: The Philanthropic Legacy of R.E. Hart

Cynthia Johnston (Editor), Sarah J. Biggs (Editor)

Published in association with: Institute of English Studies

The exceptionally fine colour images in this catalogue are selections from the R.E. Hart Collection held by the Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery. Seven medieval manuscripts and three incunables from the Collection were exhibited at Senate House Library in November of 2013. This project, Blackburn’s ‘Worthy Citizen’: The Philanthropic Legacy of R.E. Hart, was made possible by a grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, and was generously supported by the Institute of English Studies at the School of Advanced Study, University of London; Winchester University; the Bibliographical Society; the Economic History Society; and the Blackburn Museum itself. Graduate students from the Institute of English Studies, The Courtauld Institute of Art, and Cambridge and Winchester Universities have worked with curators and experts from a wide range of academic disciplines to produce the exhibition and accompanying catalogue.

Contents

Introduction

MS Hart 21117: The Peckover Psalter. France (Paris or eastern France?), c. 1220–40
MS Hart 21001: The Blackburn Psalter. Oxford ?, c. 1260–80
MS Hart 21018: Book of Hours, Use of Sarum. England, c. 1420–30
MS Hart 21040: Book of Hours, Use of Sarum. England, c. 1440
MS Hart 9977: Ars Moriendi. Printed by Konrad Kachelofen at Leipzig, c. 1495
MS Hart 20996: Book of Hours, Use of Rome. Northern Italy (probably Venice), c. 1470–80
MS Hart 20932: Book of Hours, Use of Rome. France, c. 1480
MS Hart 13687: Bernard von Breydenbach, Peregrinationes in Terram Sanctam. Germany, 1490
MS Hart 20884: Book of Hours, Use of Rome. Netherlands or France, c. 1480–90
MS Hart 20281: De claris mulieribus (von etlichen Frowen). Augsburg (Germany), 1479