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Harley MS 1027
- Record Id:
- 040-002046856
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046856
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x000215
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1027
- Title:
- Statutes of Exeter Cathedral
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 4r-76r: Statutes of Exeter Cathedral, beginning with a statute by Bishop William [? Warelwast, bishop 1107-1137] and ending with those issued in 1387 by Thomas Brantingham, bishop 1370-1394. For a detailed list of contents, see A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts, I (1808), pp. 512-13.
The manuscript contains a few additions:
ff. 1r-4v, 76r-77r: Notes in Latin; added in the 15th century.
ff. 73v-76r: The statutes issued in 1451 by Edmund Lacey [Lacy], bishop 1420-1455; added in the 15th-century.
Decoration:
1 large (5-line) puzzle initial in blue and red with pen-flourishing extending into the margin in red and black (f. 4r). Rubrics in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002046856", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 1027: Statutes of Exeter Cathedral" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046856 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 1027 : Statutes of Exeter Cathedral - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[1027]/040-002046856
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1425
- End Date:
- 1474
- Date Range:
- 2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 245 x 175 mm (text space: 165/170 x 100/105 mm).
Foliation: ff. 77 (+ 2 unfoliated early modern paper flyleaves and 1 unfoliated parchment flyleaf at the beginning + 3 early modern paper flyleaves at the end); (ff. 1-3 and 76-77 are the original flyleaves.
Collation: Gatherings mostly of 8, with leaf signatures in the lower right corner of rectos in the first half of gatherings and horizontal catchwords in the centre of the lower margin of the last verso of each gathering.
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: British Museum in-house; gold-tooled black half leather binding with the Harleian arms gold stamped on the outside covers; marbled endpapers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Exeter.
Provenance:
?The Cathedral Church of St Peter, Exeter, Devon: the manuscript contains its statutes (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 147).
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:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), I (1808), pp. 512-513 (no. 1027).
Cyril Ernest Wright and Ruth C. Wright, The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), I: 1715-1723, pp. xix, xxviii.
Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 147, 316.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- Exeter, England
Southwestern England