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Harley MS 72
- Record Id:
- 040-002045900
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002045900
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000596.0x0000f5
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 72
- Title:
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Legal treatises
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 2r-8r: An index.
ff. 8r-57r: A ‘reading or declaration of the Auctorytis, Libertis, and offices of a fforest, made upon the Statut called Carta de fforesta by one Treherne’.
ff. 58r-75v: ‘Tretice of the Institutes of Peace by Mr ffletwood [but not in printe]’.
ff. 76v-106v: A treatise entitled ‘Such matters tuchinge the office of Institutes of Peace’
ff. 107v-141r: A treatise entitled ‘Inditements: An Order to be observed , in framing of Inditements of ffelony’.
ff. 142r-142v: Regula atque Ordines nonnullis observandis tam in Sessione quam Galoae Deliberacione.
ff. 143r-148v: De nominibus omnium et singulorum hundredorum, wapentagiorum et Lastarum in quolibet Comitatu.
f. 149r: A collection of legal sayings in Latin and English.
The manuscript contains a later addition:
f. [150]recto: A parchment fragment containing an English inventory of goods, written in the first half of the 16th century.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002045900", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 72: Legal treatises" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002045900 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 72 : Legal treatises - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0071]/040-002045900
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1575
- End Date:
- 1599
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 16th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 295 x 205 mm.
Foliation: ff. 149 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end); 1 unfoliated paper pastedown on f. 1r; 1 unfoliated parchment pastedown on f. [150]recto; each leaf has been mounted onto a paper guard.
Script: 16th-century script.
Binding: British Museum in-house.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England.
Provenance:
Johannes Forster, owned in the 16th century: his name inscribed on f. 1r and f. 149v; and his ownership inscription on an unfoliated paper pastedown on f. 1r: ‘Johannes fforster me possidit’ (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 155).
Sir Simonds D’Ewes (b. 1602, d. 1650), 1st baronet, diarist, antiquary, and friend of Sir Robert Cotton (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 131); acquired for 2s; recorded in his catalogues as A.287, E.102, and B.69.
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, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), I (1808), p. 20.
Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), p. 372.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)