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Harley MS 1120

Record Id:

040-002046949

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002046949

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x000272

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 1120

Title:

English statutes from the reigns of Henry III to Edward I

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-4v: Table of contents.

ff. 5r-8r: Magna Carta.

ff. 8r-9v: Carta de Foresta.

ff. 9v-10r: Sententia Excommunicationis Lata in Transgressores Cartarum.

ff. 10r-12r: Provisiones de Merton.

ff. 12r-14r: Dictum de Kenilworth.

ff. 14r-19r: Statuta Marlebergie.

ff. 19r-29r: Statuta Westmonasterii Primi.

ff. 29r-32r: Statuta Gloucestrie.

ff. 32r-49v: Statuta Westmonasterii Secundi.

ff. 49v-50r: Districciones Scaccarii.

ff. 50r-52r: Statuta de Scaccario.

f. 52r-v: Statutum de Justiciariis assignatis.

ff. 53r-54r: Statutum de Libertate clamanda.

f. 54r-v: Statutum Novum de Quo Warranto.

ff. 54v-56v: Statuta Wyntonie.

ff. 56v-59v: Statuta Exonie.

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

ff. 61r-62v: Statuta de Moneta.

ff. 62v-63r: Composicio Monete et Mensurrarum.

ff. 63r-65r: Capitula que Placitantur in Itinere, Nova et Vetera.

ff. 65r-66v: Novi Articuli in Itinere.

ff. 66v-67r: Tractatus de antiquo Dominico Corone.

ff. 67r-68r: Articuli contra Prohibicionem Regis alocandam.

ff. 68r-68v: Statuta de Emptoribus Terrarum.

ff. 68v-69r: Statuta de Religiosis.

ff. 69r-69v: Statuta de Militibus.

ff. 69v-70r: Extenta Manerij.

ff. 70r-71r: Visus Franci plegij.

ff. 71r-71v: Assisa Panis et Cervisie.

ff. 71v-72v: Judicium Pillorie et Tumberelli.

ff. 72v-73r: Consuetudines et Assise de Foresta.

ff. 73r-73v: Dies Communes in Banco.

ff. 73v-74r: Dies Communes in placito Dotis.

f. 74r: Statutum de Conspiratoribus.

ff. 74r-74v: Statutum de Recognitoribus ponendis in Assisi et Juratis.

f. 75r: Articuli Statutorum Wynton.

ff. 75r-75v: Capitula de Tonsura Monete.

ff. 75v-76r: Statutum de Gavelletto in London.

ff. 76r-77r: Statuta de Bygamis.

ff. 77r-77v: Composicio de Ponderibus.

ff. 77v-78r: Statutum de Anno et die Bisextili.

f. 78r: Modus de Homagio et Fidelitate faciendis.

ff. 78r-78v: Modus calumpniandi Essonia.

ff. 78v-81r: Notabilia.

f. 81r: 'Quot modis dicitur Exceptio'.

ff. 81v-82r: Edward I's reissue of Magna Carta and the Charter of the Forest; written in Anglo-Norman.

ff. 82r-82v: Charter of Edward, eldest son of King Edward I, in which he pardons Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford and Essex, Roger Bigod, Earl of Norfolk, John de Ferrers, as well as other nobles and their supporters; written in Anglo-Norman, dated 10 October 1297.

f. 83v: Statuta de Berwyke.

ff. 83r-95r: Fet asaver.

ff. 95r-112r: Ralph of Hengham, Summa Magna (Magnum Hengham).

ff. 112r-117v: Judicium Essoniorum per Johannem de Metingham Capitalem Justiciarium.

ff. 117v-121v: Tractatus de Bastardia.

121v-126r: Excepciones ad cassanda Brevia.

ff. 126r-133r: Ralph of Hengham, Summa Parva (Parvum Hengham).

ff. 133r-139r: Summa Cadit Assisa.

ff. 139r-141r: Tractatus Corone.

ff. 141r-143v: Placita Corone.

ff. 143v-148r: Articuli qui in narrando indigent observari.

ff. 148r-152v: Excepciones contra Brevia.

ff. 153r-175v: Brevia Placitata.

ff. 177r-224v: Registrum Brevium of Edward I.

The manuscript contains a later addition:

f. 1*verso (parchment pastedown): Middle English verse [not recorded in the Digital Index of Middle English Verse]: 'Al is for the best / Sayde þe bryd on herne nest' [3x]; written in late 14th or early 15th century.

f. 224v: Merorandum in Latin (untranscribed); written in the (?) 15th century.

f. 225r: Two memorandums (see Custodial History).

f. 225v: List of legal terms, including: 'quit de demoraunt' and 'briggesbote'; written in (?) Law French in the 14th century.

Decoration:

1 large (5-line) 'Champ' initial in gold on a ground coloured in blue and purple (f. 177r). Large (6- to 10-line) puzzle initials in red and blue with pen-flourishing in the same colours. Large (2-line) initials in blue with red pen-flourishing or in red with blue pen-flourishing. Floral motifs, zoomorphic, hybrid and human figures in colours throughout the text in ff. 177r-224v. Paraphs in red or blue.

Added marginal drawings in brown and black ink: a lion (f. 148v), human head (f. 151r), a lion (?) and a dog (f. 152v), a centaur [copied from a drawing in the text] (f. 205r), a woman [copied from a drawing in the text] (f. 220v), and two grotesques [copied from a drawing in the text] (f. 223r).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002046949

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 1120 : English statutes from the reigns of Henry III to Edward I

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[1120]/040-002046949

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:

1325

End Date:

1374

Date Range:

2nd quarter of the 14th century-3rd quarter of the 14th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 265 x 180 mm (text space: 195 x 120 mm).

Foliation: ff. 1* + 225 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end); f. 1* is a paper flyleaf with a parchment fragment pasted onto the verso.

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

Script: Gothic.

Binding: British Museum in-house; red half leather binding with the Harleian arms gold stamped on the outside covers; rebound in 1967.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

? 'John Broxolme', (?) 16th century: his name inscribed on f. 225r: 'Memorandum this bouk was leveryd […] Chamber at his departour to whom it belongith I knaw not until it came to John broxolme' (not in Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)).

Edward Ralph, in 1659: his verse memorandum on f. 225r: 'This booke is very ould / it understand I never could / for to speak the truth indeed / one word of it I cannot read / per me Edward Ralph' (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 280).

John Anstis the elder (b. 1669, d. 1744), herald and antiquary, gift to Robert Harley (prior to 1724) together with other manuscripts: his name inscribed on f. 1r: 'Viro Honorabili Roberto Harley. DD. Jo. 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:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), I (1808), pp. 556-57 (no. 1120).

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. 51, 280.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Places:

England