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Harley MS 446
- Record Id:
- 040-002046274
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046274
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000596.0x00039f
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 446
- Title:
- Cartulary of Haughmond Abbey
- Scope & Content:
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f. 1v: Ownership inscriptions and notes by Peter Le Neve.
ff. 2r–38v: Fragments of a cartulary, including copies of royal and episcopal charters, arranged geographically. Labelled in a contemporary hand as gatherings ‘x’–‘xiii’ of a volume.
ff. 37v–39v: Miscellaneous additions from the late 14th century.
Decoration:
Red pen-decorated initials, rubrics.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002046274", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 446: Cartulary of Haughmond Abbey" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046274 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 446 : Cartulary of Haughmond Abbey - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0445]/040-002046274
- 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:
- 1332
- End Date:
- 1359
- Date Range:
- 1332-1350s
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: parchment.
Dimensions: 330 × 225 mm (written area 225 × 140 mm).
Foliation: ff. 39 (+ 7 modern flyleaves at the begining and 6 at the end). Contemporary roman foliation by quires, with many missing leaves.
Script: Gothic.
Binding: British Museum, 10 November 1966.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Augustinian Abbey of St John the Evangelist, Haughmond, Shropshire.
Provenance:
(?)Edward Jones, 17th century (Davis, no. 475).
Peter Le Neve (1661–1729), herald and antiquary: his notes (f. 1v); owned in 1696 (Wright, p. 219); 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.
- Information About Copies:
- Shrewsbury, Shropshire Archives, 2922/15/1, 16th/17th century, possibly from this manuscript.
- 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, 319, iii, 532.
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), vi, 107(q).
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.
W. Dugdale, The Antiquities of Warwickshire Illustrated, 2nd edn (London, 1730), p. 557n.
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. 475.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Related Archive Descriptions:
- Harley MS 7505