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Harley MS 670
- Record Id:
- 040-002046499
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046499
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x0000b0
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 670
- Title:
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Formulary
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1v-2v: Forms for indentures and ordinations, including a Middle English lettter of William Waynflete (b. c. 1400, d. 1486), Bishop of Winchester, dated to 1449.
ff. 3r-10r: Thomas Merke, Ars dictandi.
ff. 11r-36v: A collection of canon law texts for use in Oxford.
ff. 37r-42v: Tabula Instrumentorum.
ff. 43r-130v: A collection of canon law texts, including ecclesiastical instruments, articles, licences, condemnations, testimonies [concerning heresy cases] and ordinations.
ff. 131r-210v: Laurence of Somercotes [Somerton] (fl. 1245-1258), ecclesiastic and canonist, Summa de Electionibus Episcoporum.
f. 210v: Eleccionis directio.
ff. 211r-231r: Forms for instruments, charters, testaments and memoranda.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002046499", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 670: Formulary" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046499 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 670 : Formulary - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0670]/040-002046499
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English, Middle
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1425
- End Date:
- 1474
- Date Range:
- 2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper and parchment.
Dimensions: 215 x 145 mm.
Foliation: ff. 2* + 8* + 8** + 8*** + 231 (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning + 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end); ff. 8*, 8**, and 8*** are torn paper leaves; 3 unfoliated parchment stubs between f. 230 and f. 231; 1 unfoliated paper pastedown on f. 1r (note on Royal MS 12 B XVII and Harley MS 670, and bibliographical notes).
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: British Museum in-house.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England.
Provenance:
‘Thomas Barkle’, owned in the (?)16th century: his ownership inscription on f. 2*r: ‘Iste liber pertinet Bere hit Well in mynd ad me Tomam Barkle Both curteus and kynd A penis inferni Jesus me bryng ad vitam Eternam World With Outt End Amen’; perhaps also inscribed his name (‘Thomas’) on f. 10v (not in Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)).
‘Mr Parish’ [Parrys], possibly ‘Nathaniel Paris’, bookseller in Little Britain, owned until 1664: his name inscribed on a pastedown on f. 1r: ‘July 1664 – Bought of Mr Parish in little Brittain’ (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 267).
Edward Stillingfleet (b. 1635, d. 1699), bishop of Worcester and theologian: in 1707, Robert Harley bought Harley MSS 665-904; 939-951; and 964-1038 for £175 (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 316)).
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), I (1812), pp. 99.
Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 462-63.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)