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Harley MS 328
- Record Id:
- 040-002046156
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046156
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000596.0x000299
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 328
- Title:
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William of Wykeham, Iniunctiones
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains two series of injunctions (Iniunctiones) by William of Wykeham (b. c. 1320, d. 1404), bishop of Winchester and Chancellor of England. The injunctions were issued in 1387 as a result of William's visitation of Winchester Cathedral Priory.
Contents:
ff. 1r-30r: William of Wykeham, Iniunctiones (Injunctions, preceded by a table of contents (f. 2r).
f. 12v-13r: a copy of a notarial document of 1392 by William of Wykeham to Winchester Cathedral Priory.
[ff. 2v, 12r, 13v, 27v, 30v are blank].
Decoration:
Marginal notes and underlining in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002046156", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 328: William of Wykeham, Iniunctiones" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046156 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 328 : William of Wykeham, Iniunctiones - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0327]/040-002046156
- 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:
- 1375
- End Date:
- 1424
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 14th century - 1st quarter of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: parchment.
Dimensions: 240 x 180 mm.
Foliation: ff. 30 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 1 unfoliated parchment and 61 paper flyleaves at the end).
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: Post-1600.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: ?Winchester, England.
Provenance:
Benedictine cathedral priory of St Peter, St Paul and St Swithun of Winchester: owned in the 15th century by one of its monks and precentor, Johannes Morton; inscribed with his name and the name of the priory: ''Iohannes Morton monachus ecclesie cathedralis sancti Swithuni Wynton' possessor' in a 15th-century hand. (f. 1r).
Miles Hayward, unidentified 16th-century owner: inscribed with his name in a 16th-century hand (f. 1r).
Sir Simonds d'Ewes (b.1602, d. 1650), 1st Baronet, diarist, antiquary, and friend of Sir Robert Cotton (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 131).
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:
- A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London, 1808–12), I (1808), p. 201.
Ker, N. R. (ed.), Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books (London: The Royal Historical Society, 2nd edn., 1964), p. 200.
Wright, Cyril Ernest, Fontes Harleiani: A study of the sources of the Harleian collection of manuscripts preserved in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: The Trustees of the British Museum, 1972), pp. 131, 184, 245, 356.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Wykeham, William, Bishop of Winchester
- Places:
- Winchester, England