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Harley MS 958

Record Id:

040-002046787

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002046787

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x0001d0

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 958

Title:

Blegywryd redaction of Cyfraith Hywel, imperfect

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-60v: The Blegywryd redaction of the Welsh laws, Cyfraith Hywel (‘Law of Hywel Dda) ('T' text), imperfect, text is wanting due to the loss of at least one leaf at the beginning and more at the end and fire damage to ff. 57-60.

Decoration:

Initials in red or blue-green.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002046787

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 958 : Blegywryd redaction of Cyfraith Hywel, imperfect

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[0958]/040-002046787

Container:

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

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Welsh, Middle

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1330

End Date:

1370

Date Range:

Mid 14th century

Era:

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User Conditions:

Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 160 x 110 mm.

Foliation: ff. 60 (+ 5 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end).

Script: Gothic.

Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house binding.

Condition: Fire damage to the edges of the leaves, particularly severe at the beginning and end.

Custodial History:

Origin:

Wales.

Provenance:

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. 484.

Daniel Huws, A Repertory of Welsh Manuscripts and Sources c.800-c.1800, 3 vols (Aberystwyth: The National Library of Wales and University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, 2022), I, p. 673.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Places:

Wales