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Harley MS 936

Record Id:

040-002046765

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002046765

MDARK:

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LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 936

Title:

A collection of statutes, with a calendar

Scope & Content:

A collection of statutes, including a calendar, dating from after 1311 (see f. 231r).

Contents:

ff. 1r-6v: A calendar.

ff. 7r-8r: A table of contents.

ff. 8r-14v: A table of the Magna Carta clauses.

ff. 15r-25v: Edward I's 1297 Magna Carta.

ff. 25v-30v: Edward I's Charter of the Forest.

ff. 30v-32r: 'Sentencia cartarum'.

ff. 32v-38v: 'Provisiones de Mertone'.

ff. 38v-39r: 'Statutum de anno Bisextili'.

ff. 39r-53v: 'Statutum de Marleberge'.

ff. 53v-85r: 'Statutum Westmonasterii primum'.

ff. 85r-95r: 'Statuta Gloucestrie edita'.

ff. 95r-99r: 'Statutum mercatorum de Acton Burnel'.

ff. 99r-105v: 'Statutum mercatorum editum apud Westmonaster'.

ff. 105v-106r: 'idem statutem'.

ff. 106r-107r: 'Regia prohibitione'.

ff. 107r-108r: 'Articuli prohibitione'.

ff. 108v-110v: 'Statutem de militibus'.

ff. 111r-166v: 'Statutum Westmonasterii secondum'.

ff. 166v-172v: 'Statutum Wyntonie'.

ff. 172v, 174r-v: 'Statutum de religiosis'.

f. 173r-v: 'Statutum de bigamis' (imperfect).

f. 173v: 'Statutum de finibus' (imperfect).

ff. 175r-176v: 'Statutum Weftmonasterii tercium'.

ff. 176v-177r: 'Statutum de quo warranto'.

ff. 177v-179r: 'De vocatis ad warrantum'.

ff. 179r-v: 'De conspiratoribus'.

ff. 179v-181v: 'De bigamis' (imperfect).

ff. 182r-185v: 'De finibus' (imperfect).

ff. 186r-187v: 'De vasto'.

ff. 187v-189r: 'De defensioni juris admissis'.

ff. 189r-190v: 'De recognitoribus juratarum'.

ff. 190v-191v: 'Breve super idem statutum'.

ff. 191v-192r: 'Statutum de Berewike' (imperfect).

ff. 192r-194v: 'Statutum Lincolnie'.

ff. 194v-198v: 'Statutum de conjunctis feoffatis'.

ff. 198v-203r: 'Statutum de religiosis alienigenis'.

ff. 203r-212r: 'Statuta scaccarii'.

ff. 212r-213v: 'Statutum de attornatis et finibus recipiendis'.

ff. 213v-218v: 'De indidacionibus foreftarum'.

ff. 218v-219r: 'De wardis et releviis'.

ff. 219v-225v: 'Prerogativa regis'.

ff. 225v-227r, 229r: 'Statutum armorum'.

f. 228r-v: 'Dies communes in banco'.

ff. 229v-230v: 'Capitula ordinacionum'.

f. 231r: the ordinationes issued by Edward II in 1311.

ff. 262v-267r: 'Statuta edita apud Eboracum'.

ff. 267r-268v: 'Statutum de Notariis'.

Decoration:

A partial border in blue and red with penwork decoration in red (f. 15r). Puzzle initials in red and blue and plain initials in blue with pen-work decoration in red, occasionally with hybrid creatures but usually in foliate design and extending into the borders. Rubrics and paraphs in red and blue.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002046765

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 936 : A collection of statutes, with a calendar

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[0936]/040-002046765

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

French
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1311

End Date:

1355

Date Range:

1311-c 1350

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 90 x 65 mm (text space: 65 x 40 mm).

Foliation: ff. 271 (+ 1 unfoliated medieval parchment flyleaf and 4 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and the end; + 1 unfoliated leaf after ff. 14 and 269); ff. 269-271 are medieval parchment flyleaves.

Collation: Quires of 12, with horizontal catchwords in the lower right corner of the last verso of each quire.

Script: Gothic cursive (Anglicana).

Binding: British Museum, rebound in 1966.

Custodial History:

Origin: England (possibly Suffolk)

Provenance:

? John Best, 15th century: inscribed 'Johannes best' (ff. 14v, 152r).

Late 15th or early 16th century: inscribed with three letter 'S's, the words 'sciant presentes et futuri' and a partial alphabet (f. 269v).

15th-16th century: erased inscription 'Statuta Johannes [...]nyer'.

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.

Information About Copies:

Select digital coverage: Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts, http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/

Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), I (1808), no. 936.

B. Schofield, 'A Register of Eye Priory', British Museum Quarterly, 12 (1937-38), 9-10 (p. 9).

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)