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Harley MS 1024

Record Id:

040-002046853

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002046853

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x000212

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 1024

Title:

Nova Statuta for Edward III and Richard II

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-10r: The Capitula of the Statutes made during the reign of King Edward III [written in Law French].

ff. 10r-15v: The Capitula of the Statutes made during the first 17 years of King Richard II [written in Law French].

ff. 16r-128r: The Statutes made during the reign of King Edward III (‘per Rotulum examinata’) [written in Law French].

ff. 129r-185v: The Statutes made to the end of the 20th year of King Richard II [written in Law French].

The manuscript contains various additions:

ff. 1*verso-2*recto: A single leaf that has been folded and turned horizontally, containing a fragment of a Latin theological text citing various authorities, beginning: ‘et cupiditas in tuum unum tantum sunt malum ut nec superbia sine cupiditas nec sine superbia possit unquam cupiditas inveniri’; written in the 15th century.

f. 1r (upper margin): A title inscription: ‘A[nno] 1. E. 3 usque 17. R. 2’; added in the (?) 17th century.

ff. 186r-186v: Practice sentences: ‘Dominus vobiscum’ and ‘Domine Honorabile’; added in the 15th century.

f. 186r: Two references to ‘Baronet 157 f - 13 R 2 ea . 22’ and ‘Baneret 160 a – 14 R 2 ea 11’; added in the (?) 17th century.

Decoration:

Large initials in red with purple penwork decoration. Paraphs in red. Added sketch of a rabbit in black ink on f. [2*]verso.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002046853

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 1024 : Nova Statuta for Edward III and Richard II

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[1024]/040-002046853

Container:

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

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

French, Middle
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1450

End Date:

1499

Date Range:

2nd half of the 15th century

Era:

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User Conditions:

Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 235 x 165 mm (text space: 155 x 110 mm).

Foliation: ff. 1*-2* + 186 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 2 at the end); ff. 1*-2* are reused parchment leaves from another manuscript; f. 1* is a former pastedown; 1 unfoliated blank but ruled parchment leaf after f. 15, and 7 after f. 185; early modern foliation throughout the manuscript.

Collation: Indicated by horizontal catchwords.

Script: Gothic cursive.

Binding: Post-1600: Mottled brown leather with gold 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), p. 511.

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