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Harley MS 1119
- Record Id:
- 040-002046948
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046948
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x000271
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1119
- Title:
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Ranulf de Glanvill, Tractatus de legibus et consuetudinibus Regni Angliae
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 2r-13r: Ranulf de Glanvill (d. 1190), Tractatus de legibus et consuetudinibus Regni Angliae, beginning: 'Regiam potestatem non solum armis contra rebelles et gentes sibi regnoque insurgentes'.
The manuscript contains a few later additions:
f. 2v (lower margin): A writ for making a first summons on account of debts, '[Rex] vicecomiti salutem [summo] N. per bonos sumonitores quod sit coram me vel iusticijs meis apud Westmonasterium a clauso Pascha in xv dies'; added in the 13th century.
f. 12v (inner margin): A pangram: 'Equore cum gelido zefirus fert exennia kimbus'; and a Latin quote from Mathew 24:47: 'amen dico vobis, super omnia bona'; added in the (?) 15th century.
f. 13r: The name '[...] de Glanvill', inscribed in the (?) 17th century.
f. 13r (lower margin): A Latin quote from Matthew 24:47: 'amen dico vobis, super omnia bona', crossed out; added in the (?) 15th century.
Decoration:
1 large (5-line) initial in gold with red penwork decoration (f. 2r). Smaller (1 and 2-line) plain initials in blue or red, some of the blue initials featuring penwork decoration in red ink. Rubrics and paraphs in red, now faded.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002046948", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 1119: Ranulf de Glanvill, Tractatus de legibus et consuetudinibus Regni Angliae" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046948 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 1119 : Ranulf de Glanvill, Tractatus de legibus et consuetudinibus Regni Angliae - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[1119]/040-002046948
- 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:
- 1100
- End Date:
- 1199
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 12th century-1st quarter of the 13th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 260 x 185 mm (text space: 205 x 135 mm, in 2 columns).
Foliation: ff. 13 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + numerous unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end); 1 unfoliated parchment stub between f. 5 and f. 6; and 1 between f. 12 and f. 13; f. 1 is a small paper mounted onto a paper guard.
Collation: Each quire has been mounted onto a paper guard.
Script: Protogothic; written above the top line.
Binding: British Museum in-house; red half leather binding with the Harleian armorial bookplate gold-stamped on the outside covers; rebound on 3 November 1967.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
'Thomas', (?) 16th century: his name written twice in the inner margin of f. 12v.
John Anstis the elder (b. 1669, d. 1744), herald and antiquary, gift to Robert Harley (prior to 1724) together with other manuscripts: his donation recorded in an inscription on f. 1r: 'Amplissimo et Praenobili Roberto Harley, Summa Observandia DD. Johannes Anstis' (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 51).
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), II (1808), p. 556.
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. 51.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Ranulf de Glanvill, Chief Justiciar of England, d 1190, (Author)
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000110246301 - Places:
- England