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Harley MS 1261
- Record Id:
- 040-002047090
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002047090
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x0002ff
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1261
- Title:
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Royal statutes from 1 Edward III to 7 Richard II
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-271r: Royal statutes (Nova Statuta), from 1 Edward III (ff. 13-217) to 7 Richard II (ff. 217-271), containing a table of contents (ff. 1r-12r) and the statutes (ff. 13r-171r); written in Law French, but with Latin rubrics.
The manuscript contains a later addition:
f. [276]recto: An inscription, partially illegible due to damage, beginning: 'Disticon ad libri raptor[…] Qui michi surrip[…] Coringerum et […]'; written in the 15th century.
Decoration:
2 large (6-line) initials in gold with purple pen-flourishing including foliate motifs (ff. 13r, 217r); smaller (mostly 3-4 line) initials in gold with purple pen-flourishing including foliate motifs (ff. 22v, 24v, 31r, 31v, 38v, 52v, 54r, 56v, 57v, 73v, 74v, 78v, 82v, 84v, 86v, 87r, 90r, 92r, 95r, 97v, 103r, 105v, 109v, 118v, 120v, 124v, 129v, 134v, 155r, 156v, 165r, 171r (5 lines), 174v, 183v, 186r, 195r, 197v, 200v, 203v, 207r, 211v, 212v, 213r, 224v, 231v, 238r, 239v, 250v, 255r, 261v, 264 (5 lines). Capitals in the table of contents highlighted in red. Paraphs in blue with red penwork decoration throughout. The type of decoration is very close to Lansdowne MS 475.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002047090", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 1261: Royal statutes from 1 Edward III to 7 Richard II" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002047090 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 1261 : Royal statutes from 1 Edward III to 7 Richard II - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[1261]/040-002047090
- 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:
- 1378
- End Date:
- 1388
- Date Range:
- c 1383
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 125 x 85 mm (text space: 80 x 55 mm).
Foliation: ff. 271 (+ 2 unfoliated blank paper flyleaves and 2 unfoliated blank parchment leaves at the beginning + 3 unfoliated ruled parchment leaves and 2 unfoliated blank parchment leaves and 2 unfoliated blank paper flyleaves at the end); f. 12v is blank; f. 271v is blank but ruled.
Script: Gothic cursive.
Collection: Mainly in quires of 8; Indicated by rubricated quire and leaf signatures.
Binding: British Museum in-house; brown mottled calf with gold fillets and the initials 'M.B.' (Museum Britannicum) gold-stamped on the outside covers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
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. 1261.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- England