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Harley MS 1348

Record Id:

040-002047177

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002047177

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x000356

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 1348

Title:

Statutes of William the Bastard; genealogical diagram of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms and family tree from Aethelberht to Edward III

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-8v: Statutes of William the Bastard, written in Latin, beginning: 'Hic eciam intimatur quid Wilhelmus Rex Anglorum cum principibus suis consituit post conquistcionem [sic] Anglie'.

ff. 9r-18v: A genealogical circular diagram of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, followed by a family tree from Aethelberht to Edward III (r. 1327-1377), written in French.

The manuscript contains a later addition:

f. 1r: A title inscription: 'Statuta Willelmi Bastard Angl. reg.'; perhaps added by Frater Johannes Mavus, a 14th-century owner.

Decoration:

A circular diagram and family trees in red, grey and yellow ink (ff. 9r-18v).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002047177

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 1348 : Statutes of William the Bastard; genealogical diagram of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms and family tree from Aethelberht to Edward III

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[1348]/040-002047177

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English, Middle
French, Middle
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1350

End Date:

1399

Date Range:

2nd half of the 14th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 220 x 140 mm (text space: 190 x 115 mm; 210 x 110 mm [ff. 9-18v]).

Foliation: ff. 18 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end); a parchment foldout in the lower margin of f. 14; ff. 9-18 appear to originate from a former genealogical roll.

Script: Gothic cursive.

Binding: British Museum in-house; Gold-tooled purple half leather binding with the Harleian armorial bookplate goldstamped on the outside covers.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

Henry Ferrers (b. 1550, d. 1633), antiquary, Warwickshire: inscribed his name on f. 8v (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 150).

Frater Johannes Mavus, owned in the 14th century: inscribed his name on f. 1r: 'ffrat[er] J[o]h[anne]s mavus' (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 236); perhaps referred to in a rubricated Middle English text on f. 8v: 'ffrere Jh[o]n [or 'J[o]h[a]n] longe þi bok meneth all of emaws . I Beschyrewe þey fage na more at þis Tyme Bute grete reyn haf yow in hit kepyng'.

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), p. 11.

John Spence, Reimagining History in Anglo-Norman Prose Chronicles (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2013), pp. 110-11.

Diana B.Tyson, 'Handlist of Manuscripts Containing the French Prose Brut Chronicle', Scriptorium: Revue internationale des études relative aux manuscrits, 48 (1994), 333-44 (p. 342).

Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 150, 236.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Places:

England