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Harley MS 1317
- Record Id:
- 040-002047146
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002047146
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x000337
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1317
- Title:
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An abridgment of the statute laws
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-94v: An abridgement of the statute laws from Magna Carta to the reign of King Henry VI, in Latin and French.
f. 95v: A letter of ‘Johannis Stevenson’ to his brother ‘Capellanum Magistri Willelmi Broune Armigeri’, headed ‘Johannes Steveson suo fratri Philosopha accuratissimo salutes iuxta plurimas’; beginning ‘Amor si[n]gularis quo a prima inventutis floris’.
ff. 96v-98v: An alphabetical table of topics treated in the statute laws.
ff. 99v-100r: A letter of King Henry VII to the clerk ‘Willielmus Eliot’ concerning a matter between William of Wallingford, abbot of St Albans (‘willelmus abbas exempte Monasterij sancti abbani et eiusdem loci Conventus’) and ‘Johanni Croun’; followed by a reply from ‘Willielmus Eliot’.
The manuscript contains a few later additions:
f. 94v: A reference to a performance of the song ‘And I war a maydyn’: ‘And I were a mayden – Loley to syng and sey as her aperythe to the syche of a ma[..] and of a talle’, added in the 16th century.
f. 94v: An English proverb, beginning ‘With a O and a I man tall can’, added in the 16th century.
f. 100v: Memorandi of new vessels, plates, saucers and food (‘mastey wynbery wapp[es] be war lest youre hede have not knapp[es]’) for a household; one is dated to 1514-1515 (‘the vjth yere off the Reyne off kyng hary the viijth’).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002047146", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 1317: An abridgment of the statute laws" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002047146 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 1317 : An abridgment of the statute laws - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[1317]/040-002047146
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Anglo-Norman
English, Middle
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1450
- End Date:
- 1499
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 285 x 205.
Foliation: ff. 94* + 100 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 7 at the end); f. 94* is a paper leaf; 6 unfoliated paper stubs between f. 95 and f. 96.
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: Post-1600. British Museum in-house.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
‘Rycarde [T]udinge’, owned in the 16th century: his name inscribed on f. 51r.
‘Homfrey Dymoke’, owned in the 16th century: his name inscribed twice on f. 94v: ‘homfrey demoke the monger’ and ‘homfrey Dymok’; and twice on f. 100v: ‘Homfrey Dymoke’.
‘John Ridying’, owned in the 16th century: his name inscribed on f. 67v (‘John Ridynge’) and his ownerhip inscription on f. 92v: ‘John Rudyng[es] oos thys booke’.
‘John Tayllcotte’, owned in the 16th century: his name inscribed on f. 94v.
Edward Torpyn, owned in the 16th century: his name inscribed on f. 94v: f. 94v: ‘Edward[us ?] Torpyn Franc[es ?] Torpyn’ [written upside down].
?An unidentified member of the Broun family: the manuscript contains transcriptions of documents mentioning William (f. 95v) and John Broun (f. 99v).
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 forms 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), II (1808), p. 3.
Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards, A New Index of Middle English Verse (London: The British Library, 2005), no. 4185.33/1.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)