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Harley MS 1616
- Record Id:
- 040-002047446
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002047446
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000709.0x00007b
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1616
- Title:
- ‘Liber primus’, Register of the Hospital of St Cross, Winchester
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
f. 1r: List of the kings of England from William the Conqueror to Richard I.
ff. 2r–4v: Brief register of charters relating to land holdings.
f. 5r: List of bishops of Winchester, from Walkelin to Stephen Gardiner.
ff. 5v–6r: Memoranda on the dates of the bishops of Winchester.
ff. 6v–667: Register of miscellaneous documents relating to the hospital’s affairs. Includes copies of papal, royal and episcopal charters, records of legal proceedings, surveys, rentals, and inventories, mainly from the time of Edward III–Richard II.
ff. 67v–68r: Added list of Masters (continued to William Lewis, 1627).
Decoration:
Occasional initials; red and blue paraphs. Schematic diagram of a papal bull (f. 66v).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002047446 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 1616 : ‘Liber primus’, Register of the Hospital of St Cross, Winchester - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[1617]/040-002047446
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1360
- End Date:
- 1399
- Date Range:
- Late 14th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 185 × 115 mm.
Foliation: ff. 68 (+ 3 unfoliated flyleaves at the beginning + 1 at the end).
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house binding.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Hospital of St Cross, Winchester, Hampshire.
Provenance:
Henry Worsley of St Edmund Hall (d. 1747): owned Harley MSS 1585–1747.
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, ed. by Robert Nares and others, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808–12), ii, 160.
G.R.C. Davis, Medieval Cartularies of Great Britain and Ireland, ed. by Claire Breay, Julian Harrison and David M. Smith, 2nd edn (London: British Library, 2010), no. 1053.
William Dugdale, Monasticon Anglicanum, ed. by John Caley, Henry Ellis, and Buckeley Bandinel, 6 in 8 vols (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1817–30), vi, 722(n).
Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts Preserved in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), p. 361.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- Winchester, England
- Related Material:
- A transcription from 1694 in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Tanner 342 (SC 10169), ff. 257 and following.