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Harley MS 61
- Record Id:
- 040-002045889
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002045889
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000596.0x0000e6
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 61
- Title:
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Cartulary of Shaftesbury Abbey
- Scope & Content:
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ff. 1r–124v: Cartulary of royal and other charters, based on an earlier landboc that was apparently arranged in chronological order, preserved here to some extent, e.g. with pre-conquest documents grouped, some in Old English (ff. 1r–22v), followed by a Middle English schedule of knight’s fees. The thematic arrangement is abandoned after f. 89v. This volume is a register of rights and privileges given and conceded rather than of title-deeds. Includes grants by the abbesses, 9th–15th centuries; terriers, custumaries, etc. of manors (ff. 37r–89v). The final document copied is a Bristol rental of 1291–94.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002045889", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 61: Cartulary of Shaftesbury Abbey" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002045889 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 61 : Cartulary of Shaftesbury Abbey - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0060]/040-002045889
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English, Middle
English, Old
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1400
- End Date:
- 1440
- Date Range:
- Early 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: parchment.
Dimensions: 293 × 205 mm (written area 205 × 140 mm).
Foliation: ff. 1*+ 124 (+ 3 paper flyleaves at the beginning and 2 at the end). Medieval foliation, numbering quires (by roman numeral) and pages (by letter) in red; early modern foliation.
Script: Gothic.
Binding: British Museum in-house, 1874.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
‘W.P.’ (f. 1r), late 16th or 17th century, also found in Harley 42, 59, 261, 636.
Sir Simonds D’Ewes (b. 1602, d. 1650), 1st baronet, diarist, antiquary, and friend of Sir Robert Cotton: the manuscript is recorded in his catalogue.
Sir Simonds D’Ewes (d. 1722), 3rd baronet and grandson of the former: inherited and later sold the D’Ewes library to Robert Harley on 4 October 1705 for £450.
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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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, ed. by Robert Nares and others, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808–1812), i, 61.
J. Hutchins, The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset, 4 vols, 3rd edn (Westminster, 1861–73), iii, 22–24.
Andrew G. Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D’Ewes (London: British Museum, 1966), no. A214.
Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts Preserved in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 131, 264.
Charters of Shaftesbury Abbey, ed. by S.E. Kelly, Anglo-Saxon Charters, 5 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996).
Charters and Custumals of Shaftesbury Abbey, 1089–1216, ed. by N.E. Stacy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006).
G.R.C. Davis, Medieval Cartularies of Great Britain and Ireland, ed. by Claire Breay, Julian Harrison, and David M. Smith, 2nd edn (London: British Library, 2010), no. 885.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Abbey of St Mary the Virgin and St Edward, of Benedictine nuns, Shaftesbury, Dorset, ?888-1539