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Harley MS 1208

Record Id:

040-002047037

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002047037

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x0002ca

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 1208

Title:

Statutes of England; Walter of Henley, Housbondrie; Ralph of Hengham, Summa Magna and Summa Parva; Seneschaucie

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-3v: Lists of chapters of English statutes.

ff. 4r-6v: 'Magna Carta'; imperfect.

ff. 7r-9r: 'Carta de Foresta'.

ff. 9r-10r: 'Sentencia lata super Cartas et cetera'.

ff. 10r-13r: 'Statutum de Merton'.

ff. 13r-19v: 'Statutum de Marleberge'.

ff. 19v-33r: 'Statuta Westmonasterii primum'.

ff. 33v-37r: 'Statutum Gloucestrie'.

ff. 37r-37v: 'Explanaciones eorumdem'.

ff. 37v-62r: 'Statutum Westmonasterii secundum'.

ff. 62r-62v: 'Statutum Westmonasterii tercium'.

ff. 62v-63v: 'Statutum de Religiosis'.

ff. 63v-65r: 'Statutum de Scaccario'.

ff. 65r-68r: 'Districciones eorumdem'.

ff. 68r-69r: 'Item Districciones Scaccarii'.

ff. 69r-71v: 'Statutum de Mercatoribus' [Acton Burnell].

ff. 71v-73v: 'Item per Emendacionem de eodem Statuto'.

f. 73v: 'Statutum de Composicione Mensurarum'.

ff. 73v-74r: 'Statutum de Quo Warranto vetus'.

ff. 74r-76v: 'Statutum Wyntonie'.

ff. 76v-77r: 'Articuli ejusdem'.

ff. 77r-79r: 'Statutum Quia Fines'.

f. 79v: 'Statutum Circumspecte agatis'.

f. 80r: 'Statutum de regia Prohibicione'.

ff. 80r-81r: 'Statutum de Bigamis'.

ff. 81v-83r: 'Capitula Itineris que tangunt Coronam'.

ff. 83r-89r: 'Novi Articuli nuper apud Westmonasterium editi' [Statutum Lincolniae].

ff. 89r-90r: 'Statutum de vocatis ad Warantum'.

ff. 90r-90v: 'Modus calumpniandi Essonia'.

ff. 90v-91v: 'Dies Communes in Banco'.

ff. 91v-92v: 'Visus Franci plegii'.

f. 92v: 'Statutum de Berewyke'.

ff. 92v-93r: 'Statutum de Conspiratoribus'.

f. 93r: 'Statutum de Forstallariis'.

ff. 93v-94v: 'Extenta Manerii'.

ff. 94v-95v: 'Assisi Panis et Cervisie'.

f. 95v: 'Lucrum Pistoris'.

ff. 95v-96r: 'Statutum de conjunctim Feoffatis'.

ff. 96r-96v: 'Modus faciendi homagium et fidelitatem'.

f. 96v: 'Quot modis dicitur Excepcio'.

ff. 97r-87v: 'Statutum de Moneta'.

ff. 97v-104v: Walter of Henley, Housbondrie ('Doctrina [Summa] de Husebaunderia') [see Dean and Boulton, Anglo-Norman Literature (1999), p. 217 (no. 394)].

ff. 104v-105r: 'Fet Assavoir de quibusdam Ponderibus'.

ff. 105r-106r: 'Statutum de Recognitoribus'.

ff. 106r-108r: 'Assisa Foreste cum Brevibus'.

ff. 108r-110v: 'Capitula coram Justiciariis Foreste'.

ff. 110v-111v: 'Breve de Regardo faciendo'.

ff. 111v-112r: 'Patens ad itinerandum ad Placita Foreste'.

ff. 112v-113r: 'Statutum de Justiciariis assignatis'.

ff. 113r-113v: 'Statutum de anno et die Bisextili'.

ff. 113v-114v: 'Statutum Armorum'.

ff. 114v-116r: 'Residuum statuti de coniunctis feoffatis'.

ff. 116r-117r: 'Statuta de admissis ad defendum Jus suum'.

ff. 117r-117v: 'Statuta Nova apud Eboracum edita anno Regni Regis Edwardi filii Regis Edwardi'.

ff. 118r-125v: 'Ordo Excepcionum'.

ff. 125v-133r: 'Excepciones contra Brevia'.

ff. 133r-137r: 'Articuli qui Narrando indigent observari'.

ff. 137r-139r: 'Diffinitio Brevis que ejus Natura'.

ff. 139v-154v: 'Fet Asaver'.

ff. 155r-176r: Ralph of Hengham, Summa Magna [Magna Hengham].

ff. 176v-185r: Ralph of Hengham, Summa Parva [Parva Hengham].

ff. 185r-187v: 'Tractatus Corone'.

ff. 187v-190v: 'Placita Corone'.

ff. 190v-214r: 'Brevia Placitata.

f. 214r: A saying attributed to St Jerome: '[...] in te video quod in me non habeo et illud dilogo; De tuo meum facio; Sanctus Gerromius'.

f. 214v: An unidentified family tree.

ff. 214v-218v: 'Summa que vocatur cum sit Necessarium'.

ff. 218v-224r: 'Judicium Essonie'.

ff. 224r-230r: 'Cadit Assisa'.

ff. 230v-235v: 'Tractatus de Bastardia'.

ff. 235v-240v, 274r-275v: Seneschaucie ('Officia Ministrorum de maneriis custodiendis' and 'Residuum de officiis Ministorum in Maneriis Custodiendis'); anonymous treatise on the management and accounting for large seignorial estates [see Dean and Boulton, Anglo-Norman Literature (1999), p. 216 (no. 393)].

ff. 241r-249r: 'Cas de Demaundes'.

ff. 249r-275r: 'Placita Placitata'.

The manuscript contains a few additions:

f. [68a]recto: An inscription: 'Le .C. de doggedrone .ix. xx. i. iiij pissces'; written in the 14th century.

f. [68a]verso: Legal notes; written in the 14th century.

ff. 275r (lower margin)-275v: Legal notes; added in the 14th century.

f. 276r: Latin sayings; added in the 15th century.

Decoration:

1 very large puzzle initial in red and blue with pen-flourishing in the same colours 'E'(dwardus) (f. 4r). Smaller puzzle initials in red and blue with pen-flourishing in the same colours (ff. 7r, 118r). Large initials in red with blue pen-flourishing or in blue with red pen-flourishing. Smaller initials in blue with red pen-flourishing. Paraphs in red or blue. Cadels. Added marginal drawings in brown ink of a fish (f. 210v), a bird (f. 220v), and a (?)lion (f. 252v); an added knotwork motif in brown ink on f. 276r.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

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040-002047037

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 1208 : Statutes of England; Walter of Henley, Housbondrie; Ralph of Hengham, Summa Magna and Summa Parva; Seneschaucie

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[1208]/040-002047037

Container:

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

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

French, Middle
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1300

End Date:

1324

Date Range:

1st quarter of the 14th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 190 x 120 mm (text space: 140 x 85 mm).

Foliation: ff. 276 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end); 1 unfoliated parchment leaf after f. 68 (f. [68a]); 6 unfoliated blank parchment leaves after f. 117; 1 blank parchment leaf after f. 154; f. 276 is a parchment flyleaf.

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

Script: Gothic cursive.

Binding: British Library in-house. Rebound in 1984.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

An unknown 15th-century owner: their erased ownership inscription (beginning: 'Iste liber') on f. 276r.

Christopher Earle, 17th century: his ownership inscription on f. 1*verso: 'Christopher Earle, his booke' (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 80).

Robert Harley (b. 1661, d. 1724), 1st earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician: his bookplate with his arms, the motto, 'Virtute et Fide', and the inscription: 'Robert Harley of Bramton Castle in the County of Hereford Esq.' on f. 1*verso. Harley 1208 may be from Brampton Bryan, family seat of the Harleys (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 143).

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 (b. 1689, d. 1741), 2nd earl of Oxford and Mortimer, book collector and patron of the arts: he bequeathed his 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), no. 1208.

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. 80, 143.

Paul Brand, 'Legal Education Before the Inns of Court', in Learning the Law: Teaching and the Transmission of English Law, 1150-1900, ed. by Jonathan A. Bush and Alain J. Wijffels (London: Hambledon Continuum, 1999), pp. 51-84 (pp. 77-78).

William Huse Dunham, Casus placitorum: And Reports of Cases in the King's Courts, 1272-1278, (London: Quaritch, 1952), pp. xiii, lxxi, xcvi.

J. H. Baker and J. S. Ringrose, A Catalogue of English Legal Manuscripts in Cambridge University Library (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1996), pp. 49, 55-56, 58, 64, 66-67, 78-79, 156.

Ruth J. Dean and Maureen B. M. Boulton, Anglo-Norman Literature: A Guide to Texts and Manuscripts, Anglo-Norman Text Society: Occasional Publication Series, 3 (London: Anglo Norman Text Society, 1999), pp. 216-17 (nos 393, 394).

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
Walter of Henley [Hanley], writer on agriculture, fl 1260,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000051296754

Places:

England