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Harley MS 701
- Record Id:
- 040-002046530
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046530
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x0000cf
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100155078008.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 701
- Title:
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Possessions of dissolved monasteries in England
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
f. 2r: A title-page: ‘Monasteria dissoluta in comitatibus Norff. Suff. Cantabr. Hunt. Hertf. Essex. Midd. et Civitat. Londone. Anno xxxvjto Henrici viij [...] .1544.’.
ff. 3r-97v: ‘Valores omnium et singulorum Dominiorum, Maneriorum, Rectoriarum, Pensionum, Porcionum, ac aliarum terrarum et possessionum quarumcunque, tam temporalium quam spiritualium, in Comitatibus Norff. et Suff. Cantab. & Hunt. Essex. & Hertf. Midd. & Civit. London. jacentium et existentium ; ac diversis nuper Monasterijs, Abbatijs, Prioratibus, et alijs Domibus religiosi, infra Comitatus predictos nuper existensibus, modo suppressis et dissolutis, dudum spectancium et pertinencium, aut aliter in man. domini R. henrici VIII. ad festum Sancti Michaelis Archangeli anno regni sue Majestatis 36 remanencium ; ac in Officio Thome Mildemaie Auditoris eorundem, ad dictum festum Sancti Michaelis Archangeli eodem anno 36to computabilium’.
ff. 99r-106v: ‘An Abstract of the Valuacion of all the landes belonging to eny religious house in Yngland taken out of the recordes of the first fruites and Tenthes’; organised by county.
f. 99v: The number of churches per county (‘Numerus ecclesiarum in quolibet Comitatis Anglie’), summed up as 9210 churches in total.
f. 107r: ‘The Valuacion of the severall lyvynges of all the Bishopes in England with the Tenthes that eny of the mdoth yerelye paye’.
The manuscript contains a later addition:
f. 98r: An index of names of monasteries included in this manuscript; added in the 17th century.
Decoration:
A full-page drawing of a (?) leopard’s or lion’s head cabossed Gules; holes in the parchment around an empty space suggest that an object (? coat of arms) was once placed in the leopard’s or lion’s opened mouth, possibly forming a jessant-de-lys, but this item is now removed (f. 1r). Three crescent moons Gules (f. 2r).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002046530", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 701: Possessions of dissolved monasteries in England" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046530 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 701 : Possessions of dissolved monasteries in England - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0701]/040-002046530
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100155078008.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1544
- End Date:
- 1544
- Date Range:
- 1544
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 405 x 285 mm.
Foliation: ff. 107 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end); 1 large unfoliated parchment pastedown on f. 1r and f. 2r; ff. 4, 23, 26, 33, 36, 39, 50, 53, 62, 70, 71, 80, 83, and 95 are strips of paper or smaller leaves; each leaf has been mounted onto a paper guard.
Script: 16th-century script.
Binding: British Museum in-house; re-bound in 1968.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Edward Stillingfleet (b. 1635, d. 1699), Bishop of Worcester: his manuscripts were bought for £175 in 1707 by Robert Harley (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 (1808), p. 416.
Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), p. 385.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)