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Harley MS 748

Record Id:

040-002046577

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002046577

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x0000fe

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 748

Title:

Statutes of England

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-8v: 'Regulae Juris super Quarto Decretalium'.

ff. 8v-9r: 'Regule Juris super Quinto Decretalium'.

ff. 9r-10v: 'Regule Bonifacij Papae VIII. super Sexto Decretalium'.

ff. 11r-62v: 'Registrum Cancellarie'.

f. 62v: 'Breve Regis Edwardi I de reddendo quodam Mesuagio Willelmo Abbati de Burgo Sancti Petri'; dated 6 October in the 23rd year of the reign of King Edward I.

ff. 63r-64r: 'Capitula Statutorum'.

ff. 65r-67r: 'Magna Carta Regis Henrici III de Libertatibus Anglie'.

ff. 67r-68r: 'Carta Regis Henrici III de Foresta'.

ff. 68r-68v: 'Sentencia lata in transgressores Cartarum de Libertatibus Anglie et de Foresta' (1253).

ff. 68v-70r: 'Statuta de Mertone'.

ff. 70r-73r: 'Statuta de Marleberge'.

ff. 73r-80v: 'Statuta Westmonasterii prima'.

ff. 80v-81v, 83r: Statuta de Scaccario.

ff. 82r-82v: Districtiones Scaccarij.

ff. 83v-84r: 'Statuta de Actone Burnel'; dated the feast of St Michael in the 2nd year of the reign of King Edward I.

ff. 84r-86r: 'Statuta Gloucestrie'.

ff. 86r-86v: 'Explanaciones eorundem'.

ff. 86v-88r: 'Statuta Wyntonie'.

ff. 88r-101r: 'Statuta Westmonasterij secunda'.

ff. 101r-101v: 'Statuta Religiosorum'.

ff. 101v-102v: 'Statuta Quo Warranto primum'.

ff. 102v-103r: 'Statuta de Justiciariis assignatis'.

ff. 103r-104r: 'Statuta Exonie'.

ff. 104r-105v: 'Articuli eorundem Statutorum'.

ff. 105v-106r: 'Statutum primum de Moneta'.

ff. 106r-106v: 'Articuli ejusdem'.

ff. 106v-107r: 'Statuta de Militibus'.

ff. 107r-107v: 'Modus faciendi Homagium et Fidelitatem'.

ff. 107v-108r: 'Visus Franciplegii'.

f. 108r: 'Composicio Monete et Mensurarum'.

ff. 108r-108v: 'Statutum de Anno et die Bissextili'.

ff. 108v-109r: 'Dies Communes in Banco'.

f. 109r: 'Modus calumpniandi Essonia'.

ff. 109r-109v: 'Assisa Panis'.

f. 109v: 'Assisa Cervisie'.

f. 109v: 'Lucrum Pistoris'.

ff. 109v-110r: 'Circumspecte agatis'.

ff. 110r-110v: 'Statutum Novum Quo Warranto'.

ff. 110v-111r: 'Statutum Westmonasterii tercium'.

f. 111r: 'Novum statutum de Moneta'.

ff. 111r-111v: 'Provisio que dicitur Gavelet'.

ff. 111v-112v: 'Judicium Pillorie et Tumberelli'.

ff. 112v-113r: 'Statutum Armorum'.

ff. 113r-113v: 'Statutum de Juratis, Assisis, et Attinctis'.

f. 113v: 'Statutum de Conspiratoribus'.

ff. 114r-116r: 'Carta de Libertatibus Anglie'; dated 15 February in the 9th year of the reign of King Henry III.

ff. 116r-117v: 'Carta de Foresta'; dated 15 February in the 9th year of the reign of King Henry III.

ff. 117v-118r: 'Sententia lata in Transgressores'.

ff. 118r-119v: 'Provisiones de Mertone'.

ff. 119v-123r: 'Statuta de Marleberge'.

ff. 123r-126r: 'Statuta Westmonasterii prima'.

ff. 126r-135r: 'Summa Fet asavoyr' [Fet Asaver].

ff. 135r-148r: Ralph of Hengham, Summa Magna ['Magna Summa de Hengham'].

ff. 148r-153v: Ralph of Hengham, Summa Parva ['Summa Parvus Hengham'].

ff. 153v-157r: 'Modus componendi Brevia'.

ff. 157r-160r: Excepciones ad cassandum Brevia .

ff. 160r-160v: 'Nota exceptionis'.

ff. 160v-164v: 'Judicium Essoniorum'.

ff. 164v-180v: 'Brevia placitata'.

ff. 180v-188v: 'Summa Curie Baronum'.

ff. 188v-190r: 'Tractatus de dampnis cum notabilis suis'.

ff. 191r-200r: 'Les Cas e les Jugementz pledeze en la Curt le Rey'.

ff. 200r-200v: 'Soke et Sake' [Interpretatio Verborum Libertatum]

ff. 200v-202r: 'Diffinicio Brevis de Recto'

ff. 202r: Tract on calculating 'denarii' for different amounts of 'libras'.

Decoration:

4 large puzzle initials in blue and red with red penwork decoration (ff. 11r, 114r, 116v, 191r). Large blue initials with reserved designs and pen-flourishing in red. Smaller blue initials with red pen-flourishing. Paraphs in red or blue. Plain initials in red or blue.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002046577

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 748 : Statutes of England

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[0748]/040-002046577

Container:

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

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Anglo-Norman
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1300

End Date:

1349

Date Range:

1st half of the 14th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 260 x 175 mm (text space: 195 x 115 mm).

Foliation: ff. 202 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end); f. 82 is a small inserted parchment leaf; 3 unfoliated parchment stubs after f. 190; 1 unfoliated modern paper pastedown on f. [203]recto (note of foliation).

Collation: Indicated by quire numbers (green Roman numerals on first rectos).

Script: Gothic and Gothic cursive.

Binding: British Museum in-house; gold-tooled red half leather with the Harleian arms gold stamped on the outside covers; marbled endpapers.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

John Wodenothe of Shavington cum Gresty, Chester, 16th century: memorandum relating to his marriage in 1534 to Margaret, daughter of John Rope of Stapeley, Chester on f. 190r; and his name inscribed on ff. 202r, 202v (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 358).

John Littleton, 16th century: his name inscribed on f. 202v: 'De John Littleton' (not in Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)).

Edward Stillingfleet (b. 1635, d. 1699), bishop of Worcester and theologian (see 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 (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. 431-32 (no. 748).

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. 316, 358.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Ralph of Hengham, Ralph de, Chief Justice of Common Pleas, b in or before 1235-1311,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000080784095

Places:

England