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Harley MS 113
- Record Id:
- 040-002045941
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002045941
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000596.0x00012e
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 113
- Title:
- Statutes of the Hospital of Ewelme, Oxfordshire
- Scope & Content:
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f. 1r: Pen trials and inscriptions. Two parchment fragments have been pasted onto this folio.
f. 2r: Inscription, 'Henricus octauus dei gracia', with ownership inscription of Richard St George.
ff. 1–2** are four erased leaves of a text witten in Anglo-Norman.
ff. 1v–2r are parchment leaves with erased texts. f. 16 is a parchment fragment. 2 blank ruled leaves after f. 30.
ff. 3r–30r: Statutes of the Hospital of Ewelme, Oxfordshire, with text on f. 30r a slightly later addition, signed by William de la Pole, first duke of Suffolk (1396–1450), the hospital's founder, on ff. 29v and 30r.
ff. 31r: Incomplete memorandum on anniversaries.
f. 32r: Added memorandum on the verdict of the jurors concerning the wall between the garden of the rectory of Ewelme [Oxfordshire] and the almshouse, judging it to belong to the rectory, dated 14 Edward IV (1474/75).
Decoration:
1 large initial in colours and gold with floral sprays (f. 3r). Initials in blue with red pen-flourishing. Paraphs in blue.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002045941", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 113: Statutes of the Hospital of Ewelme, Oxfordshire" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002045941 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 113 : Statutes of the Hospital of Ewelme, Oxfordshire - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0112]/040-002045941
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Anglo-Norman
English, Middle - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1451
- End Date:
- 1461
- Date Range:
- c 1456
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Format: parchment.
Dimensions: 255 × 170 mm (written area 160 × 110 mm).
Foliation: ff. 33 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 1 at the end).
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: Post-1600. Mottled brown leather with gold tooling.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England, Central (Oxford).
Provenance:
The Almshouse (Domus Dei) of Ewelme, Oxfordshire, founded by the earl and countess of Suffolk, c. 1437: its statutes signed by the Duke (ff. 29v, 30r).
Sir Richard St George (b. c. 1555, d. 1635), Norroy King of Arms 1607, Clarenceux King of Arms 1623: his ownership inscription (f. 2r) (see Watson 1962).
John Maunfelde: inscribed with his name in the 16th century (f. 1r).
Sir Simonds d'Ewes (b.1602, d. 1650), 1st baronet, diarist, antiquary, and friend of Sir Robert Cotton (see Wright 1972).
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 (see Watson 1966).
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.
- Information About Copies:
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- 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), no. 113.
John Goodall, God's House at Ewelme: Life, Devotion and Architecture in a Fifteenth-Century Almshouse (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001), pp. 223-55, pl. 215.
Andrew G. Watson, 'Sir Simonds D'Ewes's Collection of Charters, and a note on the Charters of Sir Robert Cotton', Journal of the Society of Archivists, 2 (1962), 247-54 (p. 252, n. 33).
Andrew G. Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes (London: British Museum, 1966), no. A903.
Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 131, 147, 236, 293.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)