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Harley MS 458
- Record Id:
- 040-002046286
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046286
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000596.0x0003ab
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 458
- Title:
- Coronation charters of Kings Henry I, Stephen and Henry II of England
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains a bifolium of copies of the coronation charters of Kings Henry I, Stephen and Henry II in both Latin and Norman French. This is the only surviving copy of the coronation charters of Henry I and Henry II in Norman French translation. It bears the siglum 'Hl' in Felix Liebermann's edition of the Latin charters.
According to Nicholas Vincent, it is very probable that this dossier of charter copies formed part of the portfolio of documents carried into negotiations between King John and the English barons before the meeting at Runnymede in 1215. It may have been drafted and intended for the use of Stephen Langton, archbishop of Canterbury.
Contents:
ff. 3r-4v: Coronation charters of Henry I, Stephen and Henry II in both Latin and French.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002046286", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 458: Coronation charters of Kings Henry I, Stephen and Henry II of England" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046286 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 458 : Coronation charters of Kings Henry I, Stephen and Henry II of England - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0457]/040-002046286
- 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:
- 1200
- End Date:
- 1299
- Date Range:
- 13th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 295 x 190 mm.
Foliation: ff. 4 (+ 7 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end); ff. 1-2 are paper leaves; ff. 3-4 are parchment leaves; 42 unfoliated paper leaves after f. 4; 1 unfoliated paper pastedown on f. 1v (former spine-label).
Script: Gothic.
Binding: British Museum in-house.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England.
Provenance:
? A 15th-century owner: ‘Briaune [? Merecroft]’: inscribed on f. 3r.
Peter Le Neve (b. 1661, d. 1729), Rouge Croix Pursuivant 1690, owned in 1704: his ownership inscription on f. 2v: ‘Pertinet Petre Le Neve alias Norroy 1704’; purchased from him by Harley (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), pp. 219-21).
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, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), p. 320.
Felix Liebermann, Die Gesetze der Angelsachsen (3 vols., Halle, 1903–16), I, pp. 521-23.
Nicholas Vincent, 'Related Texts' in The Magna Carta,Sotheby's New York sale catalogue, 18 December 2007, p. 72.
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. 380.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)