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Harley MS 434
- Record Id:
- 040-002046262
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046262
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000596.0x000393
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 434
- Title:
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Cartulary of St Bees Priory
- Scope & Content:
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General cartulary of St Bees Priory, with a few additions, arranged topographically in 13 books. Includes copies of some royal charters and one or two episcopal charters passim.
f. 1r: Flyleaf, a fragment of a charter.
f. 1v: Memorandum in English by Robert Paddy, last prior of St Bees (Wilson, no. 495).
f. 2v: Memorandum on a dispute between John Moresby, lord of Harras and the monks of St Bees (Wilson, no. 496).
ff. 3r–9r: Contemporary table of contents.
ff. 10v–39v: Book 1.
ff. 40r–58v: Book 2.
ff. 59r–72v: Book 3.
ff. 73r–76v: Chronicon Cumbrie (Wilson, no. 498), a single paper gathering added to the volume.
ff. 77r–78r: end of Book 3 [?].
ff. 78v–88r: Book 4.
ff. 88*v–106v: Book 5.
ff. 107r–121v: Book 6.
ff. 122r–137v: Book 7.
ff. 138r–152r: Book 8.
ff. 153r–160r: Book 9.
ff. 161r–168v: Book 10.
ff. 169r–176v: Book 11.
ff. 177r–181v: Book 12.
ff. 182r–195r: Book 13.
f. 195v: Doodles and pentrials.
Decoration:
New documents open with initials decorated with penwork, in black. Rubrics. Running heads in red indicating the number of the book.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002046262", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 434: Cartulary of St Bees Priory" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046262 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 434 : Cartulary of St Bees Priory - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0433]/040-002046262
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1400
- End Date:
- 1499
- Date Range:
- 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: parchment.
Dimensions: 305 × 210 mm (written area 215 × 145 mm).
Foliation: ff. 197 (+ 4 modern flyleaves at the beginning and end).
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: British Museum, January 1876.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Benedictine priory of St Bee (cell of St Mary’s, York), St Bees, Cumberland.
Provenance:
Sir Thomas Legh (d. 1545), diplomat and ecclesiastical administrator: first grantee of the lordship of St Bees after the dissolution of the priory (Wilson, p. xxxvi).
Sir John Lowther, second baronet (bap. 1642, d. 1706), politician and industrialist: owned according to Tanner (p. 73) and the editors of the Monasticon Anglicanum. Descendant of Legh through the Chaloners and Wyberghs (Wilson, p. xxxvi).
John Strype (b. 1643, d. 1737), historian and biographer: possibly borrowed the book from Lowther whilst working on his Life and Acts of Edmund Grindal, Archbishop of Canterbury, published in 1710 (Wilson, p. xxxvi). Purchased from him, according to Humfrey Wanley in the Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts.
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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Thomas Tanner, Notitia Monastica (London: Bowyer, 1744), p. 73 https://archive.org/details/notitiamonastica00tann.
A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, ed. by Robert Nares and others, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808–12), i, 311.
William Dugdale, Monasticon Anglicanum, ed. by John Caley, Henry Ellis, and Buckeley Bandinel, 6 in 8 vols (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1817–30), iii, 575.
James Wilson, The Register of the Priory of St Bees, Surtees Society, 126 (Durham: Sadler, 1915), https://archive.org/details/registerofpriory00stbe.
Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts Preserved in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), 321.
G.R.C. Davis, Medieval Cartularies of Great Britain and Ireland, ed. by Claire Breay, Julian Harrison, and David M. Smith, 2nd edn (London: British Library, 2010), no. 849.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Legh, Thomas, Sir, diplomat and ecclesiastical administrator, d 1545
St Bees Priory, Cumberland