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Harley MS 718

Record Id:

040-002046547

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002046547

MDARK:

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LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 718

Title:

Copies of Rolls of Parliament from the reign of Richard II

Scope & Content:

Contents:

f. 1*recto: A title-page: ‘Rot. Parl. 7. 8. 9. 10. & 11. Ricardi Secundi’.

f. 2*recto: ‘Rotuli Parliamenti Anno Septembri Richardi Secundi’.

ff. 1r-78r: ‘Rotulus Parliamenti tenti apud Westmonasterium die Lune proxima ante Festum Omnium Sanctorum Anno Regni Regis Richardi Secundi post Conquestum Septimo Pars Prima’; ending with the note: ‘Convenit cum Recordo – Fra. Nilles [or ‘Milles’]’.

ff. 79r-116v: Rotulus Parliamenti tenti apud Novam Sarum die Veneris proxima post Festum Sancti Marci Evangeliste Anno Regni Regis Ricardi Secundi post Conquestum Septimo Pars Secunda’; ending with the note: ‘Convenit cum Recordo Fra. Nilles [or ‘Milles’]’.

ff. 117r-201v: Rotulus Parliamenti tenti apud Westmonasterium in Crastino Sancti Martini Anno Regni Regis Secundi post Conquestum Octavo’; ending with the note: ‘Convenit cum Recordo Fra. Nilles [or ‘Milles’]’.

ff. 202r-247v: ‘Rotulus Parliamenti tenti apud Westmonasterium die Veneris proxima post Festum Sancti Luce Evangeliste Anno Regni Regis Ricardi Secundi post Conquestum Nono’; ending with the note: ‘Convenit cum Recordo Fra. Nilles [or ‘Milles’]’.

ff. 248r-290v: ‘Rotulus Parlimenti tenti apud Westmonasterium primo die Octobris Anno Regni Regis Ricardi Secundi post Conquestum Decimo’; ending with the note: ‘Convenit cum Recordo Fra. Nilles [or ‘Milles’]’.

ff. 291r-333v: ‘Rotulus Parliamenti tenti apud Westmonasterium die Lune in Crastino Purificacionis beatae Mariae Anno Regni Regis Ricardi Secundi post Conquestum Undecimo Pars Prima’; ending with the note: ‘Convenit cum Recordo Fra. Nilles [or ‘Milles’]'.

ff. 334r-268r: ‘Rotulus Parliamenti Anni II Ricardi Secundi Pars Secunda’; ending with the note: ‘Convenit cum Recordo Fra. Nilles [or ‘Milles’]’.

ff. 369r-414r: ‘Rotulus Parliamenti de Anno Regni Regis Richardi Secundi Undecimo Pars Tertia’; ending with the note: ‘Convenit cum Recordo Fra. Nilles [or ‘Milles’].

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002046547

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 718 : Copies of Rolls of Parliament from the reign of Richard II

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[0718]/040-002046547

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

French
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1600

End Date:

1699

Date Range:

17th century

Era:

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User Conditions:

Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: 325 x 215 mm.

Foliation: ff. 1* + 2* + 414 (+ 6 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 6 at the end); 1 unfoliated paper leaf between f. 1* and f. 2*; f. 116 and f. 117; f. 201 and f. 202; f. 333 and f. 334; 3 between f. 247 and f. 248; f. 290 and f. 291.

Script: 17th-century script.

Binding: British Museum in-house. Brown half leather binding with marbled paper boards, the Harleian armorial bookplate gold-stamped on the upper and lower covers.

Custodial History:

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:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), I (1808), pp. 424.

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)

Places:

England