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Harley MS 1033

Record Id:

040-002046862

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002046862

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x00021b

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 1033

Title:

Statutes of England; Registrum Brevium; Ralph of Hengham, Summa Magna and Summa Parva

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 2v-9r: Table of contents.

f. 9v: Exposicio Verborum Anglicorum in veteribus Cartis a Regibus Concessis; containing a list with Middle English legal terms (e.g. 'Miskenninge') with explanations of their meanings in French.

ff. 14r-16v: Magna Carta.

ff. 16v-18r: Carta de Libertatibus Foreste.

ff. 18r-19r: Sentencia Lata in Transgressores Libertatum Contentarum in Carta Communium Libertatum et de Foresta.

ff. 19r-19v: Capitula de Foresta sive Articuli Transgressionum in Forestis.

ff. 19v-21r: Provisiones de Mertone.

ff. 21r-23v: Dictum de Kenilworthe.

ff. 23v-28r: Statuta de Marleberge.

f. 28r: Statutum de Anno et Die Bisextili.

ff. 28r-28v: Statutum de Habentibus Redditus in Civitate Londoniarum sive de Gaveletto.

ff. 28v-37r: Statuta Westmonasterii Prima.

ff. 37r-39v: Statuta Gloucestrie.

ff. 39v-40r: Explanaciones eorundem.

ff. 40r-40v: Statutum contra Religiosos.

ff. 40v-57r: Statuta Westmonasterii Secunda.

ff. 57v-58v: Statuta de Scaccario.

ff. 58v-59v: Districciones de Scaccario.

ff. 59v-61v: Statutum de Mercatoribus.

ff. 61v-63r: Statutum Wyntonie.

ff. 63r-65v: Statuta Exonie.

ff. 65v-66r: Statutum ad Inquirendum de Transgressoribus [Ragman].

ff. 66r-66v: Statutum de Militibus.

ff. 66v-67r: Statutum de Emptoribus Terrarum.

ff. 67r-67v: Statutum de Prohibicionibus.

f. 68r: Statutum pro Juratis infra Comitatus et Extra Ponendis Anno 21 [Westminster IV].

ff. 70r-80r: Fet Assaver.

ff. 80r-93r: Ralph of Hengham, Summa Magna.

ff. 93r-93v: Summa Judicium Essoniorum; imperfect at the end.

ff. 94r-96v: Ralph of Hengham, Summa Parva; imperfect at the beginning.

ff. 96v-100r: Modus Componendi Brevia.

ff. 100r-106r: Summa Cadit Assisa.

ff. 106r-109v: Ars Cyrograffandi sive Modis Faciendi Cartas et Levandi Fines et Concordias in Curia Domini Regis.

ff. 109v-110r: Extenta Manerij.

f. 110v: Modus Faciendi Homagia et Fidelitates.

ff. 110v-111v: Visus de Franco Plegio.

ff. 111v-112r: Assisa Panis et Cervisie.

f. 112r: Composicio Monete et Mensurarum.

ff. 112r-113v: Capitula de Itinere.

ff. 113v-115v: Capitula Que Placitantur in Itinere Nova.

ff. 115v-116r: Communes Dies in Banco.

f. 116r: Dies Communes in Brevi de Dote.

ff. 116v-117r: Tractatus de Antiquo Dominico Corone.

ff. 118r-119r: Statutum Eboraci anno Regni Regis Edwardi fili Edwardi, 12.

ff. 119r-119v: Statutum de Presentibus Vocatis ad Warrantum.

ff. 119v-123r: Hugh le Despenser, Statutum Editum Anno Edwardi III Primo.

ff. 123v-125v: Statutum Westmonasterii Anno Edwardi III Quarto.

ff. 126r-128r: Statutum Northantonie Anno Edwardi III Secundo.

ff. 128r-130v: Statutum Westmonasterii Anno Edwardi III Quinto.

ff. 131r-133v: Statutum Eboraci Anno Nono Regis Edwardi III.

ff. 134r-135r: 'Les Tresouns, Felonyes, et Malveistes faites a nostre Sienour le Roy Edward III et a son people par Rogier Mortymer et autres de sa Vocyne'.

ff. 137r-172r: Registrum Brevium.

ff. 172v-173r: 'Bulla bonifacii Papae VIII ad Regem Edwardum I de Nunciis suis B. Albanense et S. Prenestrinense Episcopis quos misit ad Pacem statuendam inter Angliae et Franciae Regis dat. II Kalend. Martii anno Pontificatus sui, primo'.

f. 173r: 'Sacramentum Regis Anglie ad coronacionem'; imperfect.

ff. 173r-173v: 'Les Demaundes qe serront faites au Roi le Jour de sun Corounement avant qil soit Corounez'.

The manuscript contains a few additions:

f. 2*verso: Historical notes on the kings of Britain; added in the 15th century.

ff. 10r-11v: Statutum de consuetudinibus Kancie; added in the 15th century.

ff. 12r-12v: Ordinatio de Mensuris et Ponderibus; added in the 15th century.

f. 13r: List of taxes in London wards, including: 'Candelwikstrete - xvj li', 'Bisshopesgate - xxij li', 'Aldrichgate - vij li' and 'Crepulgate - l li' with the (?) date 1496.

ff. 68v-69r: Statutum de Mensuris et Ponderibus; added in the 15th century.

ff. 117r-117v: Poem on law in Latin; added in the 15th century.

f. 117v: Dies Communes in Banco Domini Regis Versificati, beginning: 'Mic octo quin tres men cras ani cras mar et oc quin'; added in the 15th century.

ff. 135r: 'Modus amensurandi terram, pratum, boscum, pasturam, brueram et hujusmodi sive tabula proportionum'; added in the 15th century.

Decoration:

2 puzzle initials in red and blue with pen-flourishing in the same colours (ff. 14r, 137r). Red initials with blue pen-flourishing and blue initials with red pen-flourishing, some large, some small. Paraphs in red or blue.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002046862

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 1033 : Statutes of England; Registrum Brevium; Ralph of Hengham, Summa Magna and Summa Parva

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[1033]/040-002046862

Container:

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

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Anglo-Norman
English, Middle
French, Middle
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1375

End Date:

1399

Date Range:

4th quarter of the 14th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 230 x 160 (text space: 175 x 115 mm).

Foliation: 1*-2* + 176 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end); ff. 1*-2*, 1, 174-176 are parchment leaves that originally served as flyleaves; 1 unfoliated parchment stub after f. 2*; 1 after f. 130; 2 after f. 174; 1 unfoliated parchment strip on f. 176v (inscribed with a price: 'vjs viijd').

Collation: Indicated by catchwords; each quire has been mounted separately onto a paper guard.

Script: Gothic cursive.

Binding: British Museum in-house; red half leather binding with the Harleian arms gold stamped on the outside covers; rebound in 1968.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

'Wilhelmus', owned in the 15th century: his partly erased ownership inscription on f. 174r: 'Wilhelmus […] constat iste liber'.

Thomas Bromley, 16th century: inscribed a Latin verse on f. 1*verso (signed: 'Tho. Br.') and his name on f. 2*recto (not in Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)).

James Brayebroke, owned in 1555: his name and the date 1555 inscribed on f. 1r (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 82).

Thomas Brayebroke, early 16th century: his name inscribed on f. 175v); added Braybrooke arms of seven mascals conjoined 3, 3, 1 on ff. 175v-176r (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 82).

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. 514-15 (no. 1033).

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. 82, 316.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Ralph of Hengham, Ralph de, Chief Justice of Common Pleas, b in or before 1235-1311,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000080784095

Places:

England