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Harley MS 230
- Record Id:
- 040-002046058
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046058
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000596.0x0001df
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 230
- Title:
- Register of Abbots Thomas and Richard of Bury St Edmunds
- Scope & Content:
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ff. 1r–7r: Alphabetical index, not including ff. 8r–53v, headed ‘Registrum Thome abbatis …’.
ff. 8r–53v: William of Hoo, Letterbook.
ff. 54r–133v: Register of Abbots Richard Draughton and Thomas Tottington: charters, presentations, customs, recognitions, pleas, pensions, etc., together with copies of earlier, thirteenth-century documents. A second series begins imperfectly at f. 79r, perhaps with a quire lost.
ff. 134r–143v: ‘Electio Thomae’.
ff. 144r–157v: Extent of the abbot’s manors in the king’s hand during the 1301 vacancy, ending imperfectly.
ff. 159r–169r: Survey of abbey lands in the eight-and-a-half hundreds, arranged by hundreds, made by Walter Pinchbeck; an added schedule (f. 170).
ff. 171r–175r: List of tenants in Runcton and Redgrave.
ff. 176r–182r. Fines from the time of John and Henry III. Added in the late 14th century hand at the foot of f. 176r, ‘Quatemus inventus per Rogerum(?) de Hunt, pertinens abbatis’ (see Thomson 1980: 33).
ff. 182v–187v: Additions to ff. 176–182, mostly concerning the abbot’s lands in various Suffolk districts. Some charters and a bull (ff. 182v–183r).
ff. 188v–189r: Part of a charter granting confraternity in St Edmunds abbey (1506), folded into a bifolium.
Contents revised from Thomson (1980: 132–133).
The manuscript is composed of several booklets, with ff. 1–7 dating to the late 15th century; ff. 8–53, c. 1300; ff. 54–133/ff. 158–170, early 14th-cent; ff. 134–157, early 14th-century; ff. 171–175, 15th century; ff. 176–187, 13th/14th-century.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002046058", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 230: Register of Abbots Thomas and Richard of Bury St Edmunds" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046058 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 230 : Register of Abbots Thomas and Richard of Bury St Edmunds - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0229]/040-002046058
- 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:
- 1260
- End Date:
- 1399
- Date Range:
- Late 13th century-14th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: parchment.
Dimensions: 230 × 170 mm.
Foliation: ff.(ii)–189. Medieval foliation 1 (modern 8)–127 (133); in a different hand, cxxviij (134)–cli (157); 153(158)–164(169); 165(171)–169(175); 148 (176)–159(187).
Script: Gothic cursive. See Thomson (1980: 133) for interpretation of hands.
Binding: British Museum in-house.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Benedictine abbey of St Edmund, King and Martyr, Bury St Edmunds: indicated by localized nature of contents.
Provenance:
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 as no. A905 (see Watson 1966).
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.
- 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, 72.
M.R. James, On the Abbey of S. Edmund at Bury (Cambridge: Cambridge Antiquarian Society, 1895) https://archive.org/details/abbeyofsedmundat00jame, p. 96.
M.R. James, ‘Bury St. Edmunds Manuscripts’, The English Historical Review, 41.162 (1926), 251–60 https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/XLI.CLXII.251, p. 259.
Andrew G. Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D’Ewes (London: British Museum, 1966), no. A905.
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), p. 131.
Rodney M. Thomson, The Archives of the Abbey of Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk Records Society, 21 (Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 1980), no. 1286.
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. 95
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Benedictine abbey of St Edmund, King and Martyr, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, 1020-1539