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Harley MS 1127

Record Id:

040-002046956

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002046956

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x000279

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 1127

Title:

Table of principal matters contained in the statute laws of England from the 1st year of the reign of King Edward III to the 23rd year of King Henry VI, 1327-1445

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-36r: A table of principal matters contained in the statute laws of England from the 1st year of the reign of King Edward III to the 23rd year of King Henry VI, 1327-1445.

The manuscript contains later additions:

f. 37v: Practice sentences and pen trials in English, including: 'Amen So Be it Am', added in the (?) 16th century.

Decoration:

Large initials in colours and gold with acanthus motifs and foliate sprays. Paraphs in red or blue. A sketch of a human head in brown ink in the lower margin of f. 9v.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002046956

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 1127 : Table of principal matters contained in the statute laws of England from the 1st year of the reign of King Edward III to the 23rd…

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[1127]/040-002046956

Container:

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

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English
French, Middle

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1450

End Date:

1499

Date Range:

2nd half of the 15th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 295 x 215 mm (text space: 190 x 150 mm).

Foliation: ff. 1* + 37 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 2 unfoliated parchment and 2 paper flyleaves at the end); f. 1* is a parchment leaf; a section of parchment has been excised from f. 36 and the lower part of the folio has been numbered f. 37; f. [38] and f. [39] feature large vertical cuts.

Script: Gothic cursive.

Binding: Post-1600. Marbled pasteboard covers.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

An unknown mid 16th-century owner or reader: inscribed 'Anno domini 1558' on f. 1*verso.

Nicholas Vaux, 16th- or 17th-century: his name inscribed in a memorandum below the removed strip of parchment from the folio that is now both foliated as f. 36 (upper half) and f. 37 (lower half). On the lower part, which is foliated as f. 37r, he explains: 'memorand[um] that which is cut out of this place is only the times of marriage and births of Nicolas Vaux and his 2 children. and nothing of this old booke' (not in Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)).

William [? Pennigton], 16th or 17th century: his name inscribed on f. 36v (not in Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)).

'Farrar[e] [..s]', 16th or 17th century: their name inscribed on f. 37v, partially written on the strip of parchment that was removed from the folio that is now foliated as f. 36 (upper half) and f. 37 (lower half).

Nicholas Younge, 16th or 17th century: his name ('nycholas younge'), signature with his initials ('N Y), and surname ('Younge') inscribed on f. 27v (not in Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972).

Edward Henden, Serjeant-at-law and baron of the Exchequer, 1639-1642: inscribed his name on f. 1*rect: 'Salus mea Christi hostia, Edward Henden' (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 186).

Peter Le Neve (b. 1661, d. 1729), herald and antiquary: given by him to Harley (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 219).

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. 558.

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. 186, 219.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Places:

England