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Harley MS 395

Record Id:

040-002046223

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002046223

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000596.0x00032c

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 395

Title:

Statutes of England

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 2r-5v: 'Magna Carta'.

ff. 5v-8r: 'Carta de Foresta'.

ff. 8r-8v: 'Sententia Excommunicationis lata post confectionem Cartarum'.

ff. 8v-11r: 'Provisiones de Merton'.

ff. 11r-18r: 'Statuta de Marleberge'.

ff. 18r-31v: 'Statutum Westmonasterii primum'.

ff. 31v-35r: 'Statutum Gloucestrie'.

ff. 35r-35v: 'Explanationes eorundem'.

ff. 35v-61r: 'Statuta Westmonasterii secunda'.

f. 61r: 'Statutum de Conspiratoribus'.

ff. 61r-62r: 'Statutum de Juratis et Assisis'.

ff. 62r-62v: Statutum de Emptoribus terrarum.

ff. 63r-65v: 'Statuta de Wynton'.

ff. 65v-70v: 'Statuta edita apud Exoniam'.

ff. 70v-73v: 'Statuta Mercatorum'.

ff. 73v-74v: Statutum de Justiciarijs assignandis quod vocatur Rageman'.

ff. 74v-75v: 'Districtiones Scaccarij'.

ff. 75v-79r: Statuta de Scaccario Domini Regis.

ff. 79r-80r: 'Statuta de Militibus'.

ff. 80r-81v: 'Statuta de Bigamis'.

ff. 81v-82r: 'Statuta Religiosorum'.

ff 82r-83r: 'Statuta de Gauelet in London'.

f. 83r: 'Statutum Novum Quo Warranto'.

f. 83v: 'Breve de Anno et Die Bissextili'.

ff. 83v-84r: 'Articuli sub qua forma Laici impetrent Prohibicionem regiam'.

f. 84v: 'Articuli contra Prohibicionem Regis Allocandam'.

ff. 84v-86v: 'Statutum de Quo Warranto primum'.

ff. 86v-87v: 'Statuta Armorum'.

ff. 87v-89r: 'Modus ad extendum Manerium sive Extenta Manerij'.

ff. 89r-90r: 'Modus admensurandi Terram'.

ff. 90r-90v: 'Modus calumpniandi Essonia'.

ff. 90v-91v: 'Modus faciendi Homagium et Fidelitatem'.

ff. 91v-92r: 'Assisa Panis'.

f. 92r: 'Assisa Cervisie.

ff. 92r-92v: 'Composicio Mensurarum'.

ff. 92v-93v: 'Visus franci plegij'.

ff. 93v-94v: 'Judicium Pillorie et Tumberelli'.

ff. 94v-97r: 'Capitula que placitantur coram Justiciarijs itinerantibus'.

ff. 97r-98v: 'Tractatus qui dicitur Interpretatio Verborum Libertatum'.

ff. 98v-99r: 'Dies Communes in Communibus Placitis in Banco'.

ff. 99r-99v: 'Dies Communes in Placito dotis'.

ff. 99v-101v: 'Statuta de Finibus'.

ff. 101v-103r: 'Officium Seneschalli'.

ff. 103r-105r: 'Articuli Novi inquirendi per Justiciarios Itinerantes'.

ff. 105r-114r: 'Modus ordinandi Brevia'.

ff. 114r-121v: 'Excepciones contra Brevia'.

ff. 121v-127v: 'Tractatus de Bastaria'.

ff. 127v-130v: 'Tractatus de Corona'.

ff. 130v-135r: 'Placita Corone'.

ff. 135r-144v: 'Cadit Assisa'.

ff. 144v-154v: Ralph de Hengham, 'Parvum Hengham'.

ff. 154v-162r: 'Judicium Essoniorum'.

ff. 162r-180r: 'Fet Assaver'.

ff. 181r-186r: Table of contents and chapters.

The manuscript contains a few later additions:

f. 1r: A description of the manuscript in French, added by Peter le Neve (b. 1661, d. 1729).

f. 1r (parchment pastedown): Partial list of contents; added in the (?) 17th century.

f. 186v: 'De sorte Thome Robert. clericii Exonien. dioc.'; added in the 15th or 16th century.

Decoration:

Large (2- and 3-line) initials in blue with penwork decoration and pen-flourishing in red. Paraphs in blue or red.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002046223

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 395 : Statutes of England

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[0394]/040-002046223

Container:

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

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

French, Middle
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1300

End Date:

1399

Date Range:

14th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment; paper (f. 1 only).

Dimensions: 235 x 160 mm (text space: 170 x 100 mm).

Foliation: ff. 186 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end); 1 unfoliated parchment pastedown on f. 1r; 1 unfoliated parchment stub after f. 16.

Collation: Indicated by catchwords; each quire has been mounted separately onto a paper guard.

Script: Gothic cursive.

Binding: British Museum in-house; red half leather binding with the Harleian arms gold stamped on the outside covers; rebound in 1968.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

Edward Henden, sergeant-at-law and Baron of the Exchequer in 1639, owned the manuscript: inscribed with his name and the inscription 'Salus mea Christi hostia' on f. 1r (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 186).

Peter Le Neve (b. 1661, d. 1729), Rouge Croix Pursuivant in 1690: autograph note on the manusript's contents in French on f. 1r with his name added in pencil below it: 'Mr Le Neve?'; bought from him for the Harleian Library according to Humfrey Wanley in A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts (1808), I, p. 232 (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 219).

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 forms one of the foundation collections of the British Library.

Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), I (1808), p. 232 (no. 395).

Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 186, 219.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Ralph of Hengham, Ralph de, Chief Justice of Common Pleas, b in or before 1235-1311,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000080784095

Places:

England