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Harley MS 926

Record Id:

040-002046755

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002046755

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x0001b0

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 926

Title:

Vetera Statuta

Scope & Content:

Vetera Statuta (ff. 7r-103v) written and illuminated after 1329 and before 1340 when Edward III changed his arms from England ancient into England ancient quartered with France ancient (see Provenance). The text of Vetera Statuta is preceded by a quire including notes relating to taxes and feudal holdings, possibly added slightly later (ff. 1r-6r). First volume of a two-volume set. The second volume is Harley MS 927.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002046755

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 926 : Vetera Statuta

Contains:

Harley MS 926, ff 1r-6r : Notes relating to taxes and feudal holdings
Harley MS 926, ff 7r-103v : Vetera Statuta

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Hierarchy:

032-002045828[0926]/040-002046755

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:

1329

End Date:

1370

Date Range:

1329-Mid 14th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment codex.

Dimensions: 135 x 85 mm (text space: 90 x 55 mm).

Foliation: ff. 103 (+ 11 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning; + 6 unfoliated blank parchment leaves after f. 6, 4 after f. 8, and 3 after f. 103; + 48 unfoliated blank paper leaves at the end). Bifolium signatures and catchwords written horizontally.

Script: Gothic cursive.

Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house binding. Edges tinted red.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

Thomas Beauchamp, 11th earl of Warwick (b. 1313/14, b.1369), soldier and magnate (knighted and given livery of his lands on 20 February 1329) possibly owned by him: his arms with the royal arms of England ancient, and the royal arms of England ancient with a label of five point az., used by the future Edward III, as earl of Chester, probably both referring to Edward III, king of England (r. 1327-1377) (Harley 926, f. 9r).

John Wood (bap. 1704, d. 1754), architect and town planner: inscribed with his name (f. [151]v).

Inscribed in pencil, 'Add to that ?46 sheets of good paper', 18th century (f. [106]v).

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, née Cavendish 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.

Administrative Context:

England.

Information About Copies:

Select digital coverage available for this manuscript, see Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/welcome.htm.

Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), I (1808), no. 926.

Michael A. Michael, 'The Artists of the Walter de Milemete Treatise', (unpublished doctoral dissertation, Westfield College, University of London, 1987), p. 293.

Kathryn A. Smith, Art, Identity and Devotion in Fourteenth-Century England: Three Women and their Books of Hours, (London: British Library, 2003), p. 28 n. 71.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Beauchamp, Thomas, 11th Earl of Warwick, d 1369
Bentinck, Margaret Cavendish, duchess of Portland, née Harley, collector of art and natural history specimens and patron of arts and sciences, 11 Feb 1715-17 Jul 1785,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000115857160,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/2356861
Harley, Edward, second earl of Oxford and Mortimer, book collector and patron of the arts, 2 Jun 1689-16 Jun 1741,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000108078249,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/160524259
Harley, Henrietta Cavendish, Countess of Oxford and Mortimer, née Holles, patron of architecture, 4 Feb 1694-9 Dec 1755,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000030125833,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/6045563
Harley, Robert, first Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, 5 Dec 1661-21 May 1724,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000083423906