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Harley MS 900
- Record Id:
- 040-002046729
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046729
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x000196
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 900
- Title:
- Legal commentaries compiled by William Hughes of Grays Inn
- Scope & Content:
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Two apparently unpublished text books for law students and others compiled by William Hughes of Grays Inn.
ff. 1-65: Legal writings, commentaries on Anthony Fitzherbert’s treatise on English law, New Natura Brevium (1534). Title page: ‘The first parte of the Commentaries upon Mr FitzHarbert his Natura Brevium: being certayne Annotations & Explanacions of Cases extracted out of the old Bookes, viz. Bracton, Britton, The Register, Booke of Entries, Fitzherbert’s & Brooke’s Abridgements, And all the auncient Yeare Bookes, beginninge at 1 E.3 and ending with the Raignes of Queene Mary, & some fewe yeares of Queene Elizabeth ... by W.H. (i.e. William Hughes) of Graies Inn, in the County of midd. Esquire. Anno Domini 1647’.
ff. 165-205: Title page: ‘Charters and Poynts of the Auncient Charters, graunted by the Kings of England, unto the honorable Cittie of London; begininge att William the Conquerour, untill the tyme of King Edward the Sixth. Collected and translated out of the Latine Originalls into English, for the publique benefitt of all the Cittizens of the Cittie of London. And published by Wm H. (i.e. William Hughes) of Graies Inn, Esquire, Anno D[omini] 1647’.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002046729", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 900: Legal commentaries compiled by William Hughes of Grays Inn" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046729 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 900 : Legal commentaries compiled by William Hughes of Grays Inn - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0900]/040-002046729
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1647
- End Date:
- 1647
- Date Range:
- 1647
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 340 x 250 mm.
Foliation: 205 folios.
Binding: British Library in-house binding, 1980.
- Custodial History:
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The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (1661-1724), 1st earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, and Edward Harley (1689-1741), 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 (1694-1755) during her lifetime and thereafter to their daughter, Margaret Cavendish Bentinck (1715-1785), 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.
Former owner: Edward Stillingfleet (1635-1688), Bishop of Worcester.
Compiled by William Hughes of Grays Inn (1587 or 8-1663), and dated 1647.
- Finding Aids:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), I (1808), no. 900.
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. 200, 316.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)