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Harley MS 1259

Record Id:

040-002047088

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002047088

MDARK:

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LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 1259

Title:

Collection of English statutes

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-4v: Carta Foresta.

ff. 5r-6r: Sententia Excommunicationis Lata in Transgressores Cartarum.

ff. 6r-8r: Consuetudines et assisae de Foresta.

ff. 8r-9v: Summa de antiquo Dominico Corone.

ff. 9v-10v: Statutum Religiosorum.

ff. 10v-15r: Statutum Wyntonie.

ff. 15r-19v: Statutum Mercatorum.

ff. 19v-20v: Statutum de Militibus.

f. 21r: Statutum de Anno et Die in Anno bisextili.

ff. 21v-25v: Statutum de Merton.

ff. 25v-38r: Statuta de Marlebrige.

ff. 38v-64r: Statuta Westmonasterii prima.

ff. 64r-106v: Statuta Westmonasterii secunda.

ff. 106v-107v: Statutum Westmonasterii tercium.

ff. 107v-108v: Statutum Westmonasterii quartum.

ff. 108v-114v: Statuta Gloucestrie.

ff. 114v-115r: Explanationes statutorum Gloucestrie.

ff. 115v-117r: Statutum de Bigamis.

ff. 117v-118r: Modus faciendi Homaglum et Fidelitatem.

f. 118r-v: Statutum Champartie.

ff. 118v-119r: Articuli contra Prohibicionem Regis allocandi.

f. 119r-v: Statutum de Conspiratoribus.

ff. 119v-120v: Modus admensurandi Terram.

ff. 120v-122r: Assisa Panis et Servisie.

f. 122r-v: Summa, quibus Casibus non iacet Effonium.

ff. 122v-123r: Composicio Monete et Mensurarum.

ff. 123r-124r: Statutum de Rageman.

ff. 124v-126r: Statutum de Quo Warranto.

ff. 126r-127v: Visus Franci Plegii.

ff. 127v-128v: Distinctiones Scacarii.

ff. 129r-143r: Parvum Hingam.

f. 143r-v: Literary formula for the presentation of clerics to a bishop for their admission to a monastic community.

f. 143v: A note on wards and their guardians.

f. 143v: A note on warranties.

f. 144r-v: Statutum de Vocatis ad Warantiam.

ff. 144v-149r: A series of notes on judges, with arguments concerning several statutes.

ff. 149v-152r: Novum Statutum de Scaccario.

f. 152v: Districciones Scaccarii.

ff. 153r-156r: Prerogativa Regis.

ff. 156r-161v: Statuta de Bastardia.

ff. 162v-163r: Added notes in Latin and Middle French, written in a contemporary hand, concerning English laws.

f. 164v: Added notes and ownership inscriptions in Latin and Middle French.

ff. 162r, 163v-164r are blank.

Decoration:

Initials in red or blue with pen-flourishing in the other colour or in both colours. Paraphs in blue or red. Line-fillers in blue and/or red. Capitals marked in red.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002047088

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 1259 : Collection of English statutes

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[1259]/040-002047088

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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User Conditions:

Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment.

Dimensions: 135 x 95 mm (written space: 110 x 60 mm).

Foliation: ff. 164 (+ 2 unfoliated paper and 2 unfoliated parchment flyleaves at the beginning + 1 unfoliated parchment stub after f. 161 + + 1 unfoliated parchment stub after f. 163 + 2 unfoliated paper and 2 unfoliated parchment flyleaves at the end).

f. 34 has been torn; the lower margins of ff. 150-151 have been trimmed.

Script: Gothic cursive, written above the top line.

Binding: Post-1600. Brown partly mottled calf-skin with blind fillets and flower motifs; edges tinted in black or dark blue.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

Added notes, in Latin and Middle French, 14th century (ff. 162v-163r, 164v).

Inscription with the name 'Will[el]m[u]s ?Cosyn', 14th century (f. 164v).

Inscribed with a possible pressmark, 'pt jos' (f. [i] recto).

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), II (1808), no. 1259.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Places:

England