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Harley MS 1591

Record Id:

040-002047421

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002047421

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000709.0x000062

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 1591

Title:

Collection of legal treatises

Scope & Content:

Contents:

f. 1*recto: Law notes, including a line in French: 'Pur un plaisir mille dole'.

f. 1r: Recipe for sleep, including milk, treacle, saffron and ivy.

ff. 2r-5v: Forms of writs from the time of Queen Elizabeth.

ff. 6r-10r: 'The Manner and Order of kepinge the Quarter Cessions'.

f. 10r: 'Officium Clerici Pacis'.

ff. 10v-12r: Forms of Warrants.

ff. 12r-13r: Two forms of Supersedas.

ff. 13r-15v: Forms of Entries of Pleas of Trespass.

ff. 15v-17v: Forms of Recognizances.

ff. 17v-18v: Form of '[a] letter from certaine of the Justices to the residew not to discharge one by them comitted to Prison by the space of 3 or 4 days, and then to baille him with Suerties to appere at the next sessions'.

ff. 18v-20r: Form of '[a] lycence that may serve ether for a Fenser, Berward, Player in Interludes Minstriles, Jugler, Pedler, Tinker, or a Pety-Chapman'

ff. 20r-21r: Formes of divers other Licenses.

ff. 21r-24r: Forms of Warrants, Appeals and Licences.

ff. 24v-25v: Directions for Processes in Law upon many occasions.

ff. 26r-46v: Forms of Indictments by Jury.

ff. 47r-49v: 'Formula Compoti pro Ballivo Manerij'.

ff. 50r-53v: 'Notes concernants Indictments'; written in Law French.

ff. 54r-70v: 'Notes ad cognoscendum quid sit Haut Treason, Petit Treason, Felon, Larcenty, etc.'.

ff. 71r-73r: Tabula.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002047421

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 1591 : Collection of legal treatises

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[1592]/040-002047421

Container:

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

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English
French
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1550

End Date:

1599

Date Range:

2nd half of the 16th century

Era:

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User Conditions:

Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: 200 x 150 mm (text space: approximately 170 x 115 mm).

Foliation: ff. 1* + 73 (+ unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning + 1 at the end).

Collation: Each leaf has been mounted separately onto a paper guard.

Script: 16th-century Gothic cursive (Secretary).

Binding: British Museum in-house; red half leather with the Harleian arms gold stamped on the outside covers.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

Henry Worsley (b.1675, d. 1741), scholar and manuscript collector, envoy at the court of Portugal (1714-21) and governor of Barbados (1721-31): donated to Robert Harley before December 1712 together with other manuscripts from his collection (now Harley 1585-1747, 1811, 1812) before December 1712 (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 361).

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), pp. 146-47.

Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), p. 361.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Places:

England