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Harley MS 445
- Record Id:
- 040-002046273
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046273
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000596.0x00039e
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 445
- Title:
- Liber gersumarum of Ramsey Abbey
- Scope & Content:
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Register of gersumae (payments, premiums or fines), recording land transfers, marriage licences and exodus fines from the manorial villages of Ramsey Abbey in Huntingdonshire, Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Northamptonshire. Formerly known as the ‘Ramsey Abbey Court Book’. Calendared by DeWindt (1976). Arranged in roughly chronological order by abbot:
f. 1*r: Title page in the hand of Peter Le Neve.
ff. 1r–26r: Thomas Butterwyk (documents for 1398–1401).
ff. 26v–28r: ‘Nomina natiuorum’, a list of naifs from the abbey estates.
ff. 29r–105v: Thomas Butterwyk (1401–1419).
ff. 106r–154r: John Tychemersch (1419–1434).
ff. 154v–161r: John Croyland (1434–1436).
ff. 161v–256v: John Stowe (1436–1458), with an addition at f. 236v from the reign of Henry VIII (1536/37) recording the homage of William Holcott.
Decoration:
Rubrics (ff. 26v–28r only).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002046273", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 445: Liber gersumarum of Ramsey Abbey" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046273 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 445 : Liber gersumarum of Ramsey Abbey - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0444]/040-002046273
- 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:
- 1430
- End Date:
- 1470
- Date Range:
- Mid 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: parchment.
Dimensions: 330 × 245 mm.
Foliation: ff. 256 (+ 5 modern flyleaves at the beginning and end).
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: British Museum, 1876.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Benedictine Abbey of St Mary the Virgin and St Benedict, Ramsey, Huntingdonshire.
Provenance:
Peter Le Neve (b. 1661, d. 1729), herald and antiquary: autograph note on flyleaf; bought 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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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, 318–19.
J. Ambrose Raftis, The Estates of Ramsey Abbey (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediæval Studies, 1957).
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), p. 219.
Edwin Brezette DeWindt, Land and People in Holywell-cum-Needingworth (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediæval Studies, 1972).
Edwin Brezette DeWindt, The ‘Liber gersumarum’ of Ramsey Abbey (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediæval Studies, 1976).
Anne Reber DeWindt and Edwin Brezette DeWindt, Ramsey: The Lives of an English Fenland Town, 1200–1600 (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2006).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Benedictine Abbey of St Mary the Virgin and St Benedict, Ramsey, Huntingdonshire, 966-1539