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Harley MS 1013

Record Id:

040-002046842

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002046842

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x000207

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 1013

Title:

Registrum brevium; English statutes

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-124r: Registrum Brevium from the reign of Edward III (r. 1327-1377).

ff. 126r-129v: Magna Carta.

ff. 129v-131v: Carta de Foresta.

ff. 131v-132r: Sentencia lata super Cartas.

ff. 132v-134v: Provisiones de Mertone.

ff. 134v-139r: Statuta de Merleberge.

ff. 139r-148v: Statutum Westmonasterium primum; written in Anglo-Norman.

ff. 149r-151r: Statutum Gloucestrie.

ff. 151v-166r: Statutum Westmonasterium Secundum.

ff. 166r-167v: Prerogativa Regis.

ff. 167v-168r: Statutum de Bigamis.

f. 168r: Modus faciendi Homagium et Fidelitatem.

ff. 168r-168v: Statutum Hibernie de Coheredibus.

ff. 168v-169r: Statutum de Conspiratoribus.

ff. 169r-169v: Districciones Scaccarii.

ff. 169v-171v: Statutum de Mercatoribus.

ff. 171v-172r: Statutum de Wardis et Releviis.

f. 172r: Statutum de Finibus et Attornatis.

f. 172v: Visus Franci Plegii.

ff. 173r-175v: Articuli super Cartas.

The manuscript contains several additions:

f. 125v: Exemplar of a royal writ in Latin; added in the (?) 16th century.

f. 149*verso: Legal text in French; added in the (?) 2nd half of the 14th century.

Decoration:

Large (2- to 8-line) initials in blue with red pen-flourishing including foliate motifs, one including an animal head (f. 59r). Large (2- to 8-line) plain red initials. Display script with brown foliate decoration (ff. 66r, 129v). Paraphs in red or blue. Line-fillers in blue. Spaces for initials left blank.

Drawing of 2 animals including a hare or squirrel with oak leaves and acorns, and unidentified arms (? Argent a chevron gules, in chief two boars' heads sable, in base ermine), in black and red ink (f. 1r); added in the 14th or 15th century.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002046842

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 1013 : Registrum brevium; English statutes

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[1013]/040-002046842

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:

1350

End Date:

1399

Date Range:

2nd half of the 14th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 205 x 140 mm (text space: 150 x 90 mm)

Foliation: ff. 175 + 149* (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 2 at the end); f. 149* is a strip of parchment inserted after f. 149.

Collation: Indicated by leaf signatures and catchwords.

Script: Gothic cursive; written by several scribes.

Binding: Post-1600; brown mottled calf with gold fillets and blind tooling.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

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

Edward Stillingfleet (b. 1661, d. 1708), physician and Church of England clergyman, son of the former; in 1707 acquired by Robert Harley (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 316).

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.

Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), I (1808), pp. 508-09 (no. 1013).

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)

Places:

England