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Harley MS 278

Record Id:

040-002046106

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002046106

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000596.0x000247

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 278

Title:

Statutes and Ordinances of the Order of the Garter

Scope & Content:

The Statutes and Ordinances of the Order of the Garter, revised under Henry VIII in 1522; for the printed edition see Elias Ashmole, The Institution, Laws, and Ceremonies of the Most Noble Order of the Garter (London 1672).

Incipit: 'The statutis and ordynancys of the meoste noble ordre of sayncte George named the Gartier reformed explaned declared and renued by the moste high mooste excellent and mooste puissant prince henry the viiith by the grace of god kyng of England and France defensor of the faithe lorde of Irland.’

Decoration: Large 'champ' initials in colours and gold (f. 1r). Numerous smaller 'champ' initials in colours and gold. Some ascenders decorated with cadels (e.g., ff. 1v, 15r).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002046106

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 278 : Statutes and Ordinances of the Order of the Garter

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[0277]/040-002046106

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1522

End Date:

1535

Date Range:

1522-c 1530

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 220 x 150 mm (text space: 140 x 90 mm).

Foliation: ff. 23 (+ 12 unfoliated flyleaves: 4 paper and 2 parchment flyleaves at the beginning and 2 parchment and 4 paper flyleaves at the end).

Script: Gothic hybrid.

Binding: Post-1600. Dark blue leather binding with gold tooling; dark blue endpapers; gilt edges.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England (London?).

Provenance:

Old Royal Library (the English royal library), includes the catalogue number 'No 1226' of the Upper library,Westminster, probably added after Henry VIII's death in 1547 (f. 1r) (see Carley, Libraries, 2000).

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.

Administrative Context:

England (London?).

Information About Copies:

Select digital coverage available for this manuscript, see Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/welcome.htm.

Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-1812), I (1808), no. 278.

George Gatfield, Guide to Printed Books and Manuscripts Relating to English and Foreign Heraldry and Genealogy (London: Mitchell and Hughes, 1892), p. 254.

The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by Cyril Ernest Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), I: 1715-1723, pp. xviii-xix.

Andrew G. Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes (London: British Museum, 1966), no. A361a.

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. 131.

The Libraries of King Henry VIII, ed. by James P. Carley, Corpus of British medieval Library Catalogues, 7 (London: British Library, 2000), p. 206, H2.1226.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

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