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Harley MS 1281
- Record Id:
- 040-002047110
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002047110
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x000313
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1281
- Title:
- Collections relating to the practice of Common Law
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 2r-624v: Collections relating to the practice of Common Law.
The manuscript contains a few additions:
f. 1v: Notes in French and Latin, beginning: ‘Virtutem posuere dei sudore parandam’.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002047110", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 1281: Collections relating to the practice of Common Law" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002047110 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 1281 : Collections relating to the practice of Common Law - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[1281]/040-002047110
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- French
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1500
- End Date:
- 1599
- Date Range:
- 16th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 180 x 120 mm.
Foliation: ff. 133* + 600* + 642 (+ 1 unfoliated paper leaf at the beginning ); 1 unfoliated blank paper leaf between f. 281 and f. 282; f. 350 and f. 351; f. 354 and f. 355; f. 452 and f. 453; f. 571 and f. 572; f. 605 and f. 606; f. 621 and f. 622; and f. 622 and f. 623; f. 1 is a torn parchment leaf pasted against a paper leaf.
Script: 16th-century script.
Binding: British Museum in-house.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
An unknown 16th-century English owner: added a copy of an indenture to f. 1v: ‘[...] indenture made the seconde [...]’.
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, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), p. 646.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- England