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Harley MS 867
- Record Id:
- 040-002046696
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046696
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x000175
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 867
- Title:
- Statutes from Henry III to Richard II
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains statutes from the reigns of Henry III to Richard II.
For an item-level description of the statutes included in this manuscript, see A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts, I (1808), pp. 463-64.
Contents:
ff. 4*recto-7*verso: Table of statutes for Henry II.
ff. 1r-65r: Statutes for the reign of Henry II; beginning with Magna Carta (re-issue); written in French with headings in Latin.
ff. 67r-76r: Table of statutes for Edward III.
ff. 77r-132v: Statutes for the reign of Edward III; written in French with headings in Latin.
ff. 133r-162v: Statutes for the reign of Richard II; written in French with headings in Latin.
The manuscript contains several additions:
ff. 2*recto-2*verso: Fragment of a legal work; copied in the 15th century.
f. 3*verso: List of contents; added in the 17th century.
f. 165r: An unfinished ownership inscription: 'Iste liber[...]'; added in the late 15th or early 16th century.
Decoration:
3 large (9-line) initials in gold on blue and red grounds (ff. 1r, 77r, 133r). Large (4-6) initials in blue with red penwork decoration and pen-flourishing throughout. Paraphs in red or blue. Underlining in blue or red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002046696", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 867: Statutes from Henry III to Richard II" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046696 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 867 : Statutes from Henry III to Richard II - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0867]/040-002046696
- 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:
- 1425
- End Date:
- 1449
- Date Range:
- 2nd quarter of the 15th century or 3rd quarter of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 295 x 205 mm (text space: 205 x 130 mm).
Foliation: ff. 1*-7* + 165 (+ 1 unfoliated paper and 2 parchment flyleaves at the beginning + 1 unfoliated parchment and 2 paper flyleaves at the end); ff. 1*-3* and ff. 163-165 are parchment leaves that originally served as flyleaves; f. 2* is a fragmentary leaf with legal texts that originates from another manuscript and has been reused as an endleaf or binding material for this manuscript; 1 unfoliated parchment stub and 9 unfoliated blank parchment leaves after f. 66, and 2 after f. 76.
Collation: Indicated by leaf signatures and catchwords in frames of brown ink.
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: British Museum in-house; green half leather with the Harleian arms gold stamped on the outside covers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Richard Fortescue (d. 1543/1544) of Spriddlestone [Spriddleston] in Devon, in 1517/8: his inscriptions on f. 164v: 'per me Ricardum ffortestcum de Sprydelyst[o]n - Anno regni regis Henrici octavi nono [1517/8] - Scriptor scribebat si quid de nomine querat / Ricardus natus sic fuit ille vocatus' (previously unidentified and not recorded in Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)).
Thomas Paget: inscribed with his name and the date 1592 on f. 1*recto, and 'Mr Pagitt' on f. 162v; also owned Harley MS 946 (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 265).
John Jackson, 16th century: his name inscribed on f. 1*verso: 'John Jackson of [...] for as the ungodly lett them peresh in there [...]' (not in Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)).
'John', 16th century: his name inscribed in the lower margins of f. 108r and f. 114r.
Thomas Wevyll, the younger, 16th century: his ownership inscription on f. 163r: 'Iste liber pertenet [sic] ad me Thomam Wevyll Junior' (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 124, who erroneously transcribes his name as 'Thomas Dasvytt').
Unknown 17th-century owner; their pressmark '(80)' inscribed on f. [ii]recto.
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), pp. 463-64 (no. 867).
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. 124, 265, 316.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- England