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Harley MS 817
- Record Id:
- 040-002046646
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046646
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x000143
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 817
- Title:
- Henry of Bratton [Bracton], De legibus et consuetudinibus Angliæ
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 4r-236r: Henry of Bratton [Bracton], De legibus et consuetudinibus Angliæ.
The manuscript contains later additions:
ff. 1v-3v and 236v-239r: Annotations on the text and explanations of various terms, featuring a Middle English inscription that seems to have accompanied a map of England: 'This is þe mappe of Englond þat sumtyme was callyd Bretayne affter þe name of brute þe which after by þe sayme was callid englond and hit was departid in .vij. Kyngdomes . and Englond cont[a]inyth [i]n lengthe fro þe schottissee unto þe totenesse [?] de[v]yshire viij C myle and in bredith from mylihele [sic] Mont unto Douour iij C myle ; That is in circute iij C myle and lx myle' (f. 1v); and the Middle English words 'abyde tyme' (f. 239r).
Decoration:
4 large puzzle initials in blue and gold with red penwork decoration, some with figures or faces (ff. 8r (x 2), 68r, 92v). Puzzle initials in red and blue with red penwork decoration. Initials in blue with red pen-flourishing, some with reserved designs. Paraphs in red or blue.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002046646", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 817: Henry of Bratton [Bracton], De legibus et consuetudinibus Angliæ" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046646 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 817 : Henry of Bratton [Bracton], De legibus et consuetudinibus Angliæ - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0817]/040-002046646
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English, Middle
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1300
- End Date:
- 1349
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 14th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 360 x 220 mm (text space: 280 x 170, in 2 columns).
Foliation: ff. 239 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 5 at the end).
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: Post-1600. Mottled brown leather over wooden boards.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
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:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), I (1808), p. 448.
Bracton on the Laws and Customs of England, trans. with revision and notes by Samuel E. Thorne, ed. by George E. Woodbine, 3 vols (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1968), I, 9.
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)
- Names:
- Henry of Bratton [Bracton], d. 1268,
see also http://isni.org/isni/000000010897035X - Places:
- England