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Harley MS 662
- Record Id:
- 040-002046491
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046491
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x0000a8
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 662
- Title:
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Cartulary of Little Dunmow Priory
- Scope & Content:
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f. 1r: Letter from William Nicolson to Humfrey Wanley.
ff. 3r–5r: Memoranda, added in the 14th century.
ff. 6r–113v: General cartulary, arranged topographically. Includes copies of royal and episcopal charters, mainly in the first section for Little Dunmow.
ff. 114r–130v: Miscellaneous additions, added in the 13th to 15th centuries.
Decoration:
Initials and paraphs in red. Rubrics; running heads. Distinctions for recording tithes (ff. 108v–109r).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002046491", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 662: Cartulary of Little Dunmow Priory" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046491 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 662 : Cartulary of Little Dunmow Priory - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0662]/040-002046491
- 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:
- 1260
- End Date:
- 1299
- Date Range:
- Late 13th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: parchment.
Dimensions: 310 × 230 mm.
Foliation: ff. 130 (+ 3 modern flyleaves at the beginning and end).
Script: Gothic.
Binding: British Museum.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Augustinian priory of St Mary the Virgin, Little Dunmow, Essex.
Provenance:
John Nicholl ‘of Hengham’ (Hingham, Norfolk), 16th century: inscribed (f. 130v).
John Martin, 16th/17th century: note in same hand as Christopher Blencow (f. 16r).
Christopher Blencow, 16th/17th century: inscribed (f. 16r).
William Nicolson (b. 1655, d. 1727), Church of Ireland bishop of Derry and antiquary: letter of presentation to Humfrey Wanley, 28 April 1709 (f. 1r; cf. f. 2v).
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, 400.
R. E. Levy, ‘The Cartulary of Little Dunmow Priory’ (unpubl. MA thesis, University of Virginia, 1971).
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. 74, 235, 252–53.
Michael Gervers, The Hospitaller Cartulary in the British Library (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediæval Studies, 1981), pp. xviii, 258, 314.
J.C. Ward, ‘Fashions in Monastic Endowment: The Foundations of the Clare Family, 1066–1314’, The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 32 (1981), 427-451, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022046900030864.
Sibton Abbey cartularies and charters, edited by Philippa Brown, 4 vols (Woodbridge: Boydell, 1985–1988), pp. 110–11, 160.
Edward J. Kealey, Harvesting the Air: Windmill Pioneers in Twelfth-century England (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987), pp. 110, 114–15, 128, 131, 217.
Joseph Biancalana, ‘Widows at common law: the development of common law dower’, Irish Jurist, n.s., 23 (1988), 255–329 (p. 276), https://jstor.org/stable/44027327.
Nicholas Vincent, ‘The Will of Richard of Elmham (d. 1228)’, Historical Research, 70 (1997): 110–120 (pp. 113, 120), https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2281.00034.
Hugh M. Thomas, The English and the Normans: Ethnic Hostility, Assimilation, and Identity (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003), pp. 132, 192, 407.
London 1189–1228, edited by D.P. Johnson, English Episcopal Acta, 26 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003), no. 138.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Augustinian priory of St Mary the Virgin, Little Dunmow, Essex, 1106-1536