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Harley MS 335
- Record Id:
- 040-002046163
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046163
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000596.0x0002a0
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 335
- Title:
- A collection of ecclesiastical constitutions and statutes mainly issued by the Archbishops of Canterbury from 1201 to 1413
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-111v: A collection of ecclesiastical constitutions and statutes mainly issued by the Archbishops of Canterbury from 1201 to 1413, and written in several hands.
Decoration:
Initials in blue with pen-flourished decoration in red. 'Champ' initial in colours and gold with spray and flower decoration (f. 21). Initials and paraphs in blue or red. Rubrics in red. Initials highlighted in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002046163", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 335: A collection of ecclesiastical constitutions and statutes mainly issued by the Archbishops of Canterbury from 1201 to 1413" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046163 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 335 : A collection of ecclesiastical constitutions and statutes mainly issued by the Archbishops of Canterbury from 1201 to 1413 - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0334]/040-002046163
- 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:
- 1400
- End Date:
- 1424
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 235 x 175 mm (written space: 175/215 x 115/120 mm).
Foliation: ff. 111 (+ 1 unfoliated early modern and 3 modern paper flyleaves at the beginning + at the end).
Script: Gothic and Gothic cursive.
Binding: British Museum in-house. Rebound in 1966.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Inscribed with 'A. P.' initials, 16th century (f. 31; see Wright 1972).
A title and the inscription 'No. 15' added by a late 16th-century hand (f. 1; see Watson 1966).
Sir Simonds d'Ewes (b.1602, d. 1650), 1st baronet, diarist, antiquary, and friend of Sir Robert Cotton (see Watson 1966, 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 Add. 70478 (formerly Loan 29/254 packet 2); Watson 1966; Wright and Wright 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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Edward Bernard, Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliæ et Hiberniæ in unum collecti, cum indice alphabetico, 3 vols (Oxford: Sheldonian, 1697), II, p. 388, no. 10043.
A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts, in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: [n. pub.], 1808-12), I (1808), no. 335.
Christopher R. Cheney, English Synodalia of the Thirteenth Century (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1941), pp. 66 n. 3, 142 n. 1.
Andrew G. Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes (London: British Museum, 1966), pp. 133 no. [A270], 300 no. [B183].
Cyril E. Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 131, 264, 378.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- England