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Harley MS 316
- Record Id:
- 040-002046144
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046144
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000596.0x00028d
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 316
- Title:
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Cartulary of the Cheddar family of Bristol
- Scope & Content:
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ff. 1r–5v: Kalendar, the first leaf wanting, with additions relating to the births of the sons of Robert Cheddar (printed in Merriman, ‘Genealogical Notes’, 1836).
ff. 6r–86v: Cartulary of the Cheddar family of Bristol, arranged topographically, relating to lands in Somerset, including Cheddar, Gloucestershire and Dorset, from the time of Edward III to Richard II.
Decoration:
Kalendar uses rubrication and a red border, with decorative line-fillers. New sections of the cartulary open with two-line initials, filled with a yellow wash.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002046144", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 316: Cartulary of the Cheddar family of Bristol" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046144 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 316 : Cartulary of the Cheddar family of Bristol - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0315]/040-002046144
- 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:
- 1360
- End Date:
- 1399
- Date Range:
- Late 14th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: parchment.
Dimensions: 370 × 250 mm.
Foliation: ff. 86 (+ 4 modern flyleaves at the beginning and end).
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: British Museum, 28 April 1967. Fragments of former binding on inside of covers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Cheddar family of Bristol.
Provenance:
Scipio Le Squyer (b. 1579, d. 1659), record keeper and antiquary: probably no. 649 in the catalogue of his manuscripts (Manchester, John Rylands Library, Latin MS 319, f. 109r).
Sir Simonds D’Ewes (b. 1602, d. 1650), 1st baronet, diarist, antiquary, and friend of Sir Robert Cotton (Watson 1966, no. X67).
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, 195–96.
Samuel Merriman, ‘Genealogical Notes from Ancient Calendars, etc.’, Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica, 3 (1836), pp. 377–8, https://archive.org/stream/collectaneatopog03londuoft.
Andrew G. Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D’Ewes (London: British Museum, 1966).
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).
Joseph Biancalana, The Fee Tail and the Common Recovery in Medieval England: 1176–1502 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001), pp. 177–184.
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. 1213.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)