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Harley MS 112
- Record Id:
- 040-002045940
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002045940
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000596.0x00012d
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 112
- Title:
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Cartulary of Sawley Abbey
- Scope & Content:
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Cartulary of Sawley Abbey, containing copies of baronial, privat, and occasional episcopal charters and deeds, arranged topographically in 12 sections by titles (titluli) or presses (casae). Miscellaneous additions throughout and at the end, ff. 188–198.
ff. 1*–3*: Table of contents and inscriptions from former early-modern flyleaves.
ff. 1r–26v: §1 (‘titulus primus’), Sallai, Gasegyle, Rimington, Gyseburn, Staynton, Marton, Gaitgrave, Herton, Swyndon, Panbale, Elwenthorpp.
ff, 28r–46r: §2, Boulton.
ff. 46v–50v: §3, Malasis, Ragil.
ff. 53r–60v: §4, Haie, Akerland.
ff. 61v–75r: §5, Sunderland, Meles, Chipping, Preston.
ff. 76r–83v: §6, Claiton, Ducton, Salesviri, Bradeford.
ff. 84v–106v: §7, Stamford, Langeelyf.
ff. 107r–117v: §8, Routhemell, Litton, Preston, Stockdale.
ff. 119r–144v: §9, Bersebi, Halton.
ff. 145v–154v: §10, Illeclai, Farnelai, Weston, Ebor.
ff, 155v–169r: §11, Tadecaster.
ff. 170r–186v: §12 (‘casa xii’), Oxton.
Decoration:
Rubrics; spaces for small initials.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002045940", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 112: Cartulary of Sawley Abbey" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002045940 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 112 : Cartulary of Sawley Abbey - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0111]/040-002045940
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1333
- End Date:
- 1355
- Date Range:
- 1333-c 1350
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Format: parchment.
Dimensions: 250 × 150 mm.
Foliation: ff. iii + 198.
Script: Gothic.
Binding: British Museum, 1875.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Cistercian abbey of St Mary the Virgin, Sawley, Yorkshire.
Provenance:
Sir Arthur Darcy (d. 1560): inscription, f. 3*; acquired by him presumably at the dissolution of Sawley Abbey in 1536, which was granted to him in 1538.
?Thomas Darcy, 16th century; inscription, f. 3*.
Sir Simonds D’Ewes (b. 1602, d. 1650), 1st baronet, diarist, antiquary, and friend of Sir Robert Cotton (see Wright 1972): the manuscript is recorded in his catalogue (Watson 1966, no. X14).
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, 1808–12), i, 34.
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. 876.
The Chartulary of the Cistercian Abbey of St Mary of Sallay in Craven, ed. by Joseph McNulty, Yorkshire Archæological Society, Record Series, 87, 99 (Wakefield, 1933–34), https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139566995 (vol. 1), https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139567008 (vol. 2).
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. 124, 131.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Cistercian abbey of St Mary the Virgin, Sawley, Yorkshire, ?1148-1536