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Harley MS 741

Record Id:

040-002046570

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002046570

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x0000f7

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 741

Title:

Collection of secular and ecclesiastical statutes from the reign of Edward III, including charters relating to the city of Cork

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1*recto-1*verso: An erased legal text.

f. 1*verso: Table of contents.

ff. 1r-1v: Statutum editum apud Westmonasterium anno primo Regis Edwardi II'.

ff. 1r-2r: Statutum de Querela editum anno primo Regis Edwardi III.

ff. 2r-3r: Statutum editum apud Norhampton anno 2 Regis Edwardi III.

ff. 4v-5v: Statuta edita apud Westmonasterium anno 25 Regis Edwardi III.

ff. 6r-6v: Statuta edita apud Westmonasterium anno 27 Regis Edwardi III.

ff. 6v-7v: Statutum de Servientibus et Operariis editum Anno 25 Edwardi III .

ff. 7v-8r: Statutum de Assisa Pannorum editum anno 25 Regis Edwardi III.

f. 8v: Statutum Ecclesie et Cleri editum anno 25 Regis Edwardi III.

f. 9r: Exempla Brevium nonnularum Re-dis-Seima.

f. 9v: Carta Regis Johannis primi Feoffatoris Civitatis Corkagie.

f. 9v: Consuetudinum veterum et legum civitatis Bristoliensis in Civitate Corkagiensi obtinentiam.

ff. 9v-10v: Legal annals from the reign of Edward III.

ff. 11r-26v: Annus Regni Regis Edwardi III a Conquestu decimus tercius.

ff. 26v-39v: Annus Regni Regis Edwardi III a Conquestu decimus quartus.

ff. 39v-42v: De Termino Hillarii anno Regni Regis Edwardi III post Conquestum quinto decimo; imperfect at the end.

ff. 43r-78v: Anno Regni Regis Edwardi III decimus sextus; imperfect at the end.

ff. 79r-09v: Annus Regni Regis Edwardi III decimus septimus.

ff. 110r-154v: Annus Regni Regis Edwardi III decimus octavus.

ff. 155r-178r: Annus Regni Regis Edwardi III decimus nonus.

ff. 178r-178v: Carta Regis Edwardi II de LIbertatibus et Privilegiis Civitatis Corkagiensis.

ff. 179r-226v: Annus Regni Regis Edwardi III vicesimus.

ff. 227r-250v: Annus Regni Regis Edwardi III vicesimus primus.

f. 250v: Breve Regis Edwardi III directum Vice-Corkagiensi, 20 October in the 28th year of his reign.

f. 251r: Adnotationes ex Itineribus de Derbye et de Notyngham tentis coram Willelmo de Herle; in the reign of Edward III.

The manuscript contains a later addition:

f. 252r: A saying here attributed to Ovid: 'Est virtus placidis abstinuisse bonis'; added in the 15th century.

Decoration:

6 puzzle initials in red and blue with pen-flourishing in the same colours and partial borders (ff. 155r, 162v, 174r, 179r, 194r, 204v). 1 blue initial with red pen-flourishing and infill, and a partial border in red and blue (f. 43r). Paraphs in red or blue. Cadels.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002046570

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 741 : Collection of secular and ecclesiastical statutes from the reign of Edward III, including charters relating to the city of Cork

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[0741]/040-002046570

Container:

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

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

French, Middle
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1375

End Date:

1424

Date Range:

4th quarter of the 14th century-1st quarter of the 15th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 335 x 220 mm (text space: 255 x 150 mm).

Foliation: ff. 1* + 252 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves and 1 unfoliated parchment flyleaf at the beginning + 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end); f. 252 is a parchment flyleaf.

Script: Gothic cursive; written by more than one scribe.

Binding: British Museum in-house: brown half leather binding with the Harleian arms gold stamped on the outside covers; re-bound 31 August 1964.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

An unknown owner: their shelfmark '37' on f. [iv]recto.

Edward Stillingfleet (b. 1635, d. 1699), Bishop of Worcester: his manuscripts were bought for £175 in 1707 by Robert Harley (Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 316).

Edward Stillingfleet (b. 1661, d. 1708), physician and Church of England clergyman, son of the former; in 1707 acquired by Robert Harley (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. 428-29 (no. 741).

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. 316.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Places:

England