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Harley MS 729
- Record Id:
- 040-002046558
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046558
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x0000eb
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 729
- Title:
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Copies of Rolls of Parliament from the reign of King Edward IV
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
f. 1*: ‘Rot. Parl. 7. 12. 13. & 14 Ed: 4th’.
ff. 1r-301r: Rotulus Parliamenti Summoniti apud Westmonasterium tertio die Junij Anno Regni Regis Edwardi Quarti Septimo et usque in Annum Octavum continuati; with the added note: ‘Convenit cum Recordo fra. Nilles [or ‘Milles]’.
ff. 302r-454v: Rotulus Parliamenti Summoniti apud Westmonasterium sexto die Octobris anno Regni Regis Edwardi quarti post conquestum duodecimo; ends with the French note: ‘Sort fait come il est desire’.
ff. 455r-554r: Annus 13 Edwardi 4ti; with the added note: ‘Convenit cum Recordo fra. Nilles [or ’Milles’].
ff. 555r-710v: Rotulus Parliamenti per Prorogationem tenti apud Westmonasterium sexto die Octobris Anno 13o Regni Regis Edwardi quarti et per diversas Prorogrationes usque extum diem Junij Anno decimo quarto ejusdem Regis continuati.
ff. 711r-734r: De Anno 14 Edwardi 4ti; ends with the French note: ‘Sort fait come il est desire’.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002046558", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 729: Copies of Rolls of Parliament from the reign of King Edward IV" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046558 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 729 : Copies of Rolls of Parliament from the reign of King Edward IV - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0729]/040-002046558
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
French
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1600
- End Date:
- 1699
- Date Range:
- 17th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 320 x 215 mm.
Foliation: ff. 1* + 734 (+ 6 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 5 at the end); 2 unfoliated paper leaves between f. 301 and f. 302; 1 unfoliated paper leaf between f. 710 and f. 711.
Script: 17th-century script.
Binding: British Museum in-house; half leather binding with marbled paper; the Harleian armorial bookplate gold-stamped on the upper and lower covers.
- 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), pp. 425-26.
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)