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Harley MS 946

Record Id:

040-002046775

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002046775

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x0001c4

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 946

Title:

Nova statuta, including Hengham Magna

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-248r: Nova statuta, including Hengham Magna (ff. 191v-229v), preceded by a table of contents (ff. 1r-1v).

Decoration:

Numerous small initials in red. Rubrics in red.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002046775

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 946 : Nova statuta, including Hengham Magna

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[0946]/040-002046775

Container:

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

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

French, Old
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1400

End Date:

1499

Date Range:

15th century

Era:

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User Conditions:

Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 140 x 80 mm.

Foliation: ff. 1* + 250 (+ 2 unfoliated paper and 1 parchment flyleaves at the beginning + 2 paper flyleaves at the end).

Script: Gothic cursive.

Binding: Post-1600 Harleian binding.

Custodial History:

Origin: England.

Provenance:

Thomas Uppex, an unidentified 16th-century owner: inscribed with his name in an early 16th-century hand (f. 250r).

Edward Montagu, an unidentified 16th-century owner: inscribed with his name (ff. 249r, 249v).

Edward Wattsone, 'armiger', knight in 1603: owned by him before 1574, inscribed with his name recording his gift of the manuscript to Thomas Pagitt (f. 1*r).

Thomas Paget or Pagitt, an unidentified 16th-century owner: owned by him from 1574, inscribed with his name 'Mr. Pagitt. 2' (f. 1*r).

Edward Stillingfleet (b. 1635, d. 1699), bishop of Worcester and theologian (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), pp. 316-18).

Edward Stillingfleet (b. 1661, d. 1708), physician and Church of England clergyman, son of the former; in 1707 acquired by Robert Harley.

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 forms one of the foundation collections of the British Library.

Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), I (1808), p. 480.

Wright, Cyril Ernest, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 216-18, 246, 265, 334, 349.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Places:

England