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Harley MS 947

Record Id:

040-002046776

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002046776

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x0001c5

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 947

Title:

Collection of statutes and writs

Scope & Content:

ff. 1r-86v: Vetera Statuta.

ff. 87r-106v: Nova Statuta (Statutes of Edward III only).

ff. 107r-169r: Novae Narrationes.

ff. 170r-304r: Registrum brevium from the royal chancery of Edward III () with added texts and notes (ff. 304v-309r).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002046776

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 947 : Collection of statutes and writs

Contains:

Harley MS 947, ff 1r-86*v : Vetera Statuta
Harley MS 947, ff 87r-106*v : Nova Statuta (Statutes of Edward III only)
Harley MS 947, ff 107r-169r : Novae narrationes
Harley MS 947, ff 170r-309r : Registrum brevium from the royal chancery of Edward III wioth added text and notes

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Hierarchy:

032-002045828[0947]/040-002046776

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:

1330

End Date:

1424

Date Range:

Mid 14th century-1st quarter of the 15th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 120 x 95 mm (text space: 100 x 60 mm).

Foliation: ff. 309 + 86* + 106* (+ 7 unfoliated paper leaves: 3 at the beginning and 4 at the end; + 8 unfoliated blank parchment leaves after f. 86, 2 after f. 106, 1 after ff. 106*, 169, 306 with added inscription on the verso).

Scipt: Gothic cursive (Anglicana).

Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house binding; rebound in 1968.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

Leonard Coleridge: inscribed 'Leonardus Coleridge', 14th century (f. 86*v).

Teckewith (or Tockewith?): inscribed 'Iste liber pertinet ad me ?..erdum Teckewith?, 14th century(f. 308v).

Inscribed: 'Maud gerald...', 14th century (f. 308v).

Inscribed 'Ceste de Henrico Sharnebure'?, 16th century (f. 308v).

Edward Stillingfleet (b. 1635, d. 1699), Bishop of Worcester and theologian (see Wright 1972).

Edward Stillingfleet (b. 1661, d. 1708), physician and Church of England clergyman, son of the former: in 1707 acquired by Robert Harley (see Wright 1972).

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. 947.

Novae Narrationes, ed. by Elsie Shanks and S.F.C. Milsom (Selden Society, 80, 1963), pp. xvii, xxi, 144 passim, 331-32.

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. 316.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

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
Stillingfleet, Edward, Bishop of Worcester, 1635-1699
Stillingfleet, Edward, physician and Church of England clergyman, 1661-1708