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Harley MS 751

Record Id:

040-002046580

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002046580

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x000101

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 751

Title:

Extracts of statutes from the reigns of Henry III and Richard II; statutes of Henry IV and Henry V

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-18v: Nova Statuta, comprising extracts of statutes from the reigns of Edward III and Richard II; written in Law French with headings in Latin.

ff. 20r-35r: Alphabetical subject index.

ff. 36r-42v: 'Statuta de anno primo R. Henrici Quarti'.

ff. 42v-51v: 'Statuta R. Henrici IV apud Westmonasterium, anno secundo, edita'.

ff. 51v-60r: 'Statuta anno quarto ejusdem Regis edita'.

ff. 60r-63v: 'Statua anno quinto ejusdem Regis edita'.

ff. 63v-65: 'Statuta R. Henrici IV anno sexto.

ff. 65r-71r: 'Statuta apud Westmonasterium edita anno septimo Regis Henrici IV'.

ff. 71r-73r: 'Statuta apud Gloucestre anno nono ejusdem R. Henrici IV'.

ff. 73r-76r: 'Statuta apud Westmonasterium anno R. Henrici IV, undecimo edita'.

ff. 76r-78r: 'Statua apud Westmonasterium anno 13 R. Henrici IV edita'.

ff. 78v-81v: 'Statuta de anno primo R. Henrici Quinti post Conquestum.

ff. 81v-90r: 'Statuta apud Leycestre anno secundo ejusdem Regis edita'.

ff. 90v-92v: 'Statuta apud Westmonasterium edita eodem anno'.

ff. 92v-96r: 'Statuta apud Westmonasterium edita anno tercio Regis Henrici V'.

ff. 96r-99r: 'Statuta apud Westmonasterium anno quarto R. Henrici V'.

The manuscript contains a few later additions:

f. 1*verso: Note on a law case 'fiat libellus ex p[ar]te [?] Nicholas versus Wilhelmus Hykman [William Hykman of Coventry, carrier] [...]'; added in the late 15th century or early 16th century.

ff. 2*recto, [100]verso: '[...] Sum tyme hit was'; added in the 16th century.

f. 19r: A list of contents; added in the 15th century.

Decoration:

A large (5-line) blue initial with red penwork decoration and pen-flourishing and a partial (2-sided) 'J' border in blue and red (f. 36r). Large (2- to 3-line) initials in blue with red penwork decoration and pen-flourishing throughout. Paraphs in red or blue. An added coat of arms in colours on f. 99r (see Provenance).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002046580

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 751 : Extracts of statutes from the reigns of Henry III and Richard II; statutes of Henry IV and Henry V

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[0751]/040-002046580

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:

1400

End Date:

1449

Date Range:

1st half of the 15th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 250 x 165 mm (text space: 195 x 120 mm).

Foliation: ff. 1* + 2* + 99 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end); ff. 1* and 2* are parchment leaves that originally served as flyleaves; 2 unfoliated ruled parchment leaves after f. 2*; 3 blank leaves after f. 19, and 4 after f. 35.

Collation: Indicated by leaf signatures and catchwords; each quire has been mounted separately onto a paper guard.

Script: Gothic cursive.

Binding: British Museum in-house; red half leather with the Harleian arms gold stamped on the outside covers; rebound on 10 March 1966.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England

Provenance:

? Augustine Steward [Stywarde] (d. 1597), admitted to the Inner Temple in 1564: the arms (Or, a fes chequy argent and azure with a shield argent, a lion rampant gules, debruised by a bend raguly or) painted and the motto ('Singula cum valeant sunt meliora simul') inscribed on f. 99r match with the arms and motto in Harley MS 985, f. 43r, which he is thought to have added; they also match with the arms in Lansdowne MS 874, ff. 94v-95r, recording arms displayed in 'Mr Steward's House' and in the east window of the south aisle of St Andrew's Church, Holborn (previously unidentified and not listed under his entry in Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), pp. 315-16).

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; acquired from 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), p. 433 (no. 751).

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. 315-316.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Places:

England