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Harley MS 396

Record Id:

040-002046224

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002046224

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000596.0x00032d

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 396

Title:

Statutes and records of Hereford Cathedral

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-3v: ‘Iniunctions geven by the most excellent Prince Edward the Sixt by the grace of God King of England ffrance and Ireland defender of the faith in earth of the Church of England ffrance and Ireland under God Supremehead, in highnes visitacion to the Deanes, Subdeanes, Chauntours, Chauntelers, Treasurers, Archdeacons, Prebendaries, Petie-Canons, Vicars, and all other ministers in everie Cathedrall Churche to be observed off everie of them, in their offices and degrees as farre as to them shall appertaine for the advancement of Gods honor increase of vertue, and a good order to be had amongst them’.

ff. 4r-7r: ‘Iniunctions geven to the Cathedrall Church of Hereford by the Right reverand ffather in God Richard Bishop of Worcester Commissioner to the moste reverend ffather Reynald Poole Cardinall and L. Legate to the King and Queenes majesties and to the whole realme of England ffrom the Popes holines and the See Aposolicall of Rome the x vijth daie of Julie in the yeare of our lord God 1556 inviolablie to be observed under the paine of Contemt’.

ff. 8r-8v: Letters patent of Charles I for Hereford Cathedral [Latin].

ff. 9r-40r: Statuta Ecclesiae Cathedralis Herefordensis.

ff. 40r-50r: Iniunctiones sive Statuta magis peculiarites ad vicarios chorales alios Ministeros Collegij Herefordensis spectantia.

ff. 50v-56r: Iniunctiones sive statuta Hospitalis sive Domus Eleemosynariae Sancti Ethelberti Hereffordensis.

ff. 57r-77r: An extract out of the Records of ffirst Fruits and Tenths in the Custody of the Remembrancer thereof; To wit the possessions of the Deane and Chapter of the Cathedrall Church of Hereford; By vertue of a Commission out of the Court of Chancery the Thirtieth day of January in the sixe and Twentieth yeare of the reigne of our late soveraigne Lord King Henry the Eight do appeare (among other thinges) to be as ffolloweth’.

The manuscript contains a later addition:

f. 1*recto: A table of contents: Iniunctions of 1) Edward 6th 2) Cardinal Poole - Statuts of 3) Charles the first 4) An Extract o the Reveneues of the Church & College [Added in the a later hand: Hereford]; written in the 16th or 17th century.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002046224

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 396 : Statutes and records of Hereford Cathedral

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[0395]/040-002046224

Container:

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

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1550

End Date:

1649

Date Range:

2nd half of the 16th century-1st half of the 17th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: 240 x 180 mm.

Foliation: ff. 77 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 2 at the end); f. 1* is a parchment leaf; 1 unfoliated paper stub between f. 8 and f. 9; f. 2* is a paper leaf, partially torn off.

Script: 16th- and 17th-century script.

Binding: Post-1600. Marbled paper binding.

Custodial History:

Origin: England.

Provenance:

? Hereford Cathedral: the manuscript contains its statutes (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 188).

? Matthew Wren (b. 1585, d. 1667), Bishop of Hereford 1634: collected the copies of statutes of Hereford Cathedral in this manuscript according to Humfrey Wanley (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 363).

‘Robert Wall[es]’, owned in the 16th or 17th century: his name inscribed on f. 77r and f. 77v (not in Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)).

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: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), I (1808), pp. 232-33.

Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), p. 379.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Places:

England