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Harley MS 1240
- Record Id:
- 040-002047069
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002047069
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x0002ea
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1240
- Title:
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Black Book of Wigmore
- Scope & Content:
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Deeds and evidence relating to the estate of the lords of the Mortimers.
ff. 1r–7v: Indexes.
ff. 8r–34v: Table of contents, similar to the inventories in Add MS 6041.
ff. 35r–125r: Cartulary of deeds, 13th–14th century, relating to lands in England, Wales and Ireland, written after 1379. Ff. 81–93, bound out of order, relate to the inheritance of Philippa, wife of Edmund de Mortimer, 3rd Earl (d. 1381), and daughter of Lionel, Duke of Clarence (d. 1368). (More detailed description in A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts, i, 619–20.)
f. 125v: Pen trials and inscriptions.
Decoration:
New sections open with two-line initials. The ascenders in the first line of most documents are extended. Running heads.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002047069", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 1240: Black Book of Wigmore" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002047069 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 1240 : Black Book of Wigmore - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[1240]/040-002047069
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Anglo-Norman
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1380
- End Date:
- 1389
- Date Range:
- 1380s
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: parchment.
Dimensions: 405 × 280 mm.
Foliation: ff. 125. Contemporary foliation ‘i–cclxxxiiii’ from f. 8, wants 67 leaves after f. 99 (‘clix’) and other smaller groups passim.
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: British Museum.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Made for Edmund Mortimer, third earl of March and earl of Ulster (b. 1352, d. 1381), magnate.
Provenance:
‘Jo. Edwardes’ (16th century): inscribed (ff. 1r, 124v, 125v).
‘Carolus Foxe’ (16th century), probably from a Shropshire family: inscribed (ff. 125r, 125v).
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, ed. by Robert Nares and others, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808–12), i, 619–20.
Edward Owen, A Catalogue of the Manuscripts Relating to Wales in the British Museum, 4 parts, Cymmrodorion Record Series, 4 (London: Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1900–22), ii, 230.
H. Wood, ‘The Muniments of Edmund Mortimer, Third Earl of March, concerning his Liberty of Trim’, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy: Archaeology, Culture, History, Literature, 40 (1931–32), 312–55 (relating to Irish material, ff. 114 ff.), https://jstor.org/stable/25515957.
G. A. Holmes, ‘A Protest against the Despensers, 1326’, Speculum, 30.2 (April 1955): 207–12, https://doi.org/10.2307/2848467.
Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts Preserved in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972).
G.R.C. Davis, Medieval Cartularies of Great Britain and Ireland, ed. by Claire Breay, Julian Harrison, and David M. Smith, 2nd edn (London: British Library, 2010), no. 1292.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Mortimer, Edmund, third earl of March and earl of Ulster, magnate, 1352-1381