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Harley MS 493/2
- Record Id:
- 040-002046322
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046322
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000596.0x0003cf
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 493/2
- Title:
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Statuta Angliae
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript is the second of two volumes (the other is Harley MS 493/1) containing the Statuta Angliae (The Statutes of England).
Contents:
ff. 1r-218v: Statuta Angliae.
Decoration:
Numerous small initials in red. Paragraph signs in red and blue.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002046322", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 493/2: Statuta Angliae" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046322 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 493/2 : Statuta Angliae - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0493]/040-002046322
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1300
- End Date:
- 1399
- Date Range:
- 14th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 160 x 90 mm.
Foliation: ff. 218 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end).
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: Post-1600.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
?Reading, England.
Provenance:
Johannes Lathbury, senior (d. 1362): inscribed with his name: Per fratrem Iohannem Lathbury Seniorem ‘liberetur fratribus minoribus de Redyng' in a 14th-century hand (f. 1v).
The Franciscan convent in Reading: donated to it by Johannes Lathbury, see above (f. 1v).
Sir Simonds d'Ewes (b. 1602, d. 1650), 1st Baronet, diarist, antiquary, and friend of Sir Robert Cotton (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 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, 1808–12), I (1808), pp. 327-29.
Ker, N. R. (ed.), Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books (London: The Royal Historical Society, 2nd edn., 1964), p. 158.
Wright, Cyril Ernest, Fontes Harleiani: A study of the sources of the Harleian collection of manuscripts preserved in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: The Trustees of the British Museum, 1972), pp. 131, 216, 283.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- Reading, England
- Related Archive Descriptions:
- Harley MS 493/1