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Harley MS 602
- Record Id:
- 040-002046431
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046431
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x00006c
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 602
- Title:
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Register of St Albans Abbey
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
f. 1r: Added charters in Latin and English.
f. 1v: Ownership inscriptions.
ff. 2r–95r: Miscellaneous register of St Albans Abbey, containing rentals, leases, acquittances etc., made before 1396.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002046431", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 602: Register of St Albans Abbey" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046431 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 602 : Register of St Albans Abbey - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0602]/040-002046431
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English, Middle
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1360
- End Date:
- 1399
- Date Range:
- Late 14th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment (ff. 1*, 1, 96), paper (ff. 2–95).
Dimensions: 395 × 290 mm.
Foliation: ff. 97 (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + at the end).
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: British Museum, July 1912, when eleven fragments that lined the gatherings were removed to a separate volume, Add MS 38651(F).
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Benedictine abbey of St Alban the Martyr, St Albans, Hertfordshire.
Provenance:
John de la Moote, prior and later abbot of St Albans (r. 1396–1401): inscribed, ‘Liber memorandorum domini Johannis moot priori coquinarii: Refectorarii: Infrimarii: et elemosinarii huius Monasterii’ (f. 1v).
Thomas Ramrige, abbot of St Albans (r. 1492–1521): inscribed, ‘Thomas prior et abbas monasterii’ (f. 1v).
Erased inscription, probably recoverable with multispectral imaging (f. 96r).
Ralph Starkey (d. 1628), archivist and merchant: inscribed ‘R.S.’ and ‘1615’ (ff. 1r, 96r).
Sir Simonds D’Ewes (b. 1602, d. 1650), 1st baronet, diarist, antiquary, and friend of Sir Robert Cotton (Watson 1966, nos. A426, M67).
Sir Simonds D’Ewes (d. 1722), 3rd baronet and grandson of the former: inherited and later sold the D’Ewes library to Robert Harley on 4 October 1705 for £450.
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. 364.
Margaret Bent, ‘New and Little-Known Fragments of English Medieval Polyphony’, Journal of the American Musicological Society, 21, no. 2 (1968), 137–56, https://doi.org/10.2307/830850.
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), pp. 131, 314.
Jonathan R. Hunn, Reconstruction and measurement of landscape change: A study of six parishes in the St Albans area (Oxford: Tempus Reparatum, 1994), pp. 61, 81, 95.
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. 839.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- St Albans, England
- Related Archive Descriptions:
- Add MS 38651