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Harley MS 317
- Record Id:
- 040-002046145
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046145
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000596.0x00028e
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 317
- Title:
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Cartulary of Southwick Priory
- Scope & Content:
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ff. 1r–5r: Brief cartulary, headed ‘Cophinus septimus’, containing copies of deeds, 1380–86, relating to the gift by Bernard Brocas of the manors of East Hoe, Hannington Lancelevy (Hampshire) and elsewhere.
ff. 5r–6v: Miscellaneous additions at the end.
f. 7r: Fragments from a former flyleaf with various inscriptions.
Decoration:
New sections begin with a two-line initial in blue; rubrics.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002046145", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 317: Cartulary of Southwick Priory" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046145 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 317 : Cartulary of Southwick Priory - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0316]/040-002046145
- 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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Materials: parchment.
Dimensions: 325 × 210 mm.
Foliation: ff. 6 (+ 1 early modern flyleaf at the beginning + fragments of a former flyleaf at the end, labelled f. 7).
Collation: Single gathering. This may have been taken from a more extensive volume, but the text is not defective.
Script: Gothic (ff. 1r–5r); Gothic cursive (additions, ff. 5r–6v)
Binding: British Museum. Bound with Harley MS 3970.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Augustinian priory of St Mary the Virgin, Southwick, Hampshire. Inscribed with the name of Sir Bernard Brocas (c.1330–1395), soldier and administrator, and a benefactor of the priory, who was the granter of the lands described in the documents (f. 7r).
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 (Watson 1966, no. A440).
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, 196.
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), p. 131.
The Cartularies of Southwick Priory, edited by Katharine A. Hanna (Winchester: Hampshire Record Office, 1987–89).
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. 916.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Southwick Priory, Hampshire
- Related Material:
- Copy: BL, Add. 33280, ff. 275–285, by Sir Frederic Madden, d. 1873.
- Related Archive Descriptions:
- Add MS 33280
Harley MS 3970