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Harley MS 489
- Record Id:
- 040-002046317
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046317
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000596.0x0003ca
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 489
- Title:
- Treatise on the Laws of England (also known as Britton), attributed to John le Breton
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-153v: Treatise on the Laws of England (also known as Britton), attributed to John le Breton.
Decoration:
Small initials in blue, some with pen-flourishing. Paraphs in red. Rubrics in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002046317", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 489: Treatise on the Laws of England (also known as Britton), attributed to John le Breton" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046317 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 489 : Treatise on the Laws of England (also known as Britton), attributed to John le Breton - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0488]/040-002046317
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- French, Old
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1300
- End Date:
- 1324
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 14th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 180 x 130 mm.
Foliation: ff. 153 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end).
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: British Museum in-house. Rebound in 1968.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England.
Provenance:
Thomas Estwicke: inscribed with his name in a 16th-century hand (f. 106v).
Nicholas Francklin: inscribed with his name in a 16th-century hand (ff. 56v, 74r).
Tomas Wykeley: inscribed with his name in a 16th-century hand (f. 19v).
Sir Simonds d'Ewes (b. 1602, d. 1650), 1st Baronet, diarist, antiquary, and friend of Sir Robert Cotton: owned by him (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 131).
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 forms 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), I (1808), no. 489.
Wright, Cyril Ernest, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 147, 157, 364.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Le Breton, John, or Britton; Bishop of Hereford
- Places:
- England