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Harley MS 409

Record Id:

040-002046237

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002046237

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000596.0x00033a

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 409

Title:

Registrum Brevium; collection of statutes

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-44v: Registrum Brevium.

ff. 45r-52v: Statues of Westminster I, introduced as follows: ‘Ces sunt les establisemenz le Roy Edward fuiz le Roy Henri fez a Westmoster a son premer parlement general apres son coronement apres la Cluse Paske lan de son Regne tierz par son Conseil et par lassentement de Arcevesekes, Eveskes, Abbees, Priurs, Contes, Barons et la communalte de la Terre illueques somons'.

ff. 53r-53v: The Statute of Jewry (1275), entitled: ‘[L]es estatuz de la Juerie’.

ff. 53v-54r: The Distraints of the Exchequer (1275), entitled: ‘De torcenuses destresces’

ff. 54r-56v: The Statue of Gloucester (1278), entitled: ‘[L]es Estatuz de Gloucestre’.

ff. 56v-57r: A tract entitled: ‘Des Citeins de Londres, et de autres Citeins’.

ff. 57r-58v: The Statue of the Exchequer (1275), entitled: ‘[L]es estatuz de leschekere’.

ff. 59r-70v: A tract on the Court Baron, entitled: ‘[C]ort de baron et la Sen[eschall]’.

ff. 71r-81v: Fet Asaver (before 1267), entitled: ‘[L]e fet asaver et est quedam summa Legis Terre’.

ff. 82r-96r: Hengham Magna (before 1272).

ff. 97r-123r: Brevia Placitata, introduced as follows: 'Ces sunt les brefs pleydes, e les encupemens, e les defenses, e les delaies, e les exceptions, e les kas, e les jugemenz donez solum Ley de Terre, ki ne feit de Ley de Terre si puet hom aprendre coment entrer pur conte conter devaunt Justice au Banc, ou en Eyr, ou en Contee, ou en Curt de Barun’.

ff. 123r-125v: Magna Carata Liberatum (1225).

ff. 125v-127r: The Charter of the Forest (1217), entitled: ‘[C]arta Foreste’.

ff. 127r-127v: Sentencia lata in transgressores Cartarum de Libertatibus Anglie et de Foresta (1253), entitled: ‘Sentencia data super quartas praedictas’.

ff. 127v-129v: The Statute of Merton (1236), entitled: ‘[P]rovisiones de Mertone’.

ff. 129v-134r: The Statute of Malborough (1267), entitled ‘Ordinaciones et Statuta de Marleberge’.

ff. 134r-136v: The Dictum of Kenilworth (1266), entitled: ‘[D]ictum de Kellingwrte’.

Decoration

Puzzle initials with penwork decoration in blue and red (ff. 1r, 82r, 97r, 129v). Small initials in blue or red with penwork decoration in the opposite colour throughout the manuscript.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002046237

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 409 : Registrum Brevium; collection of statutes

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[0408]/040-002046237

Container:

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

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Anglo-Norman
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1275

End Date:

1285

Date Range:

c 1280

Era:

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User Conditions:

Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 210 x 145 mm.

Foliation: ff. 136 (+ 5 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end).

Script: Gothic.

Binding: British Museum in-house.

Custodial History:

Origin: England.

Provenance:

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), p. 236.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)