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Harley MS 1690

Record Id:

040-002047521

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002047521

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000709.0x0000c6

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 1690

Title:

Statutes of England; Ralph of Hengham, Summa Parva and Summa Magna; Registrum Brevium

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-2v: Lists of chapters of statutes in this manuscript.

ff. 3r-5v: 'Statutum de Marleberge'.

ff. 5v-11v: 'Statutum Westmonasterii primum'; written in French.

ff. 11v-12r: 'Districciones Scaccarij'; written in French.

ff. 12r-13v: 'Statuta de Scaccario'; written in French.

ff. 13v-14r: 'Statutum de Justiciariis assignatis'; written in French.

ff. 14r-15v: 'Capitula in Itinere'.

ff. 15v-17v: 'Statuta Gloucestrie'; written in French.

ff. 17v-18r: 'Explanationes eorundem'.

ff. 18r-18v: 'Statutum de Libertate clamanda'.

ff. 18v-20v: 'Novi Articuli in Itinere Justiciariorum'; imperfect at the end.

ff. 21r-32v: 'Statutum Westmonasterii secundum'; imperfect at the beginning.

ff. 32v-33v: 'Statuta Wyntonie'; written in French.

ff. 33v-35v: 'Statuta Exonie'; written in French.

ff. 35v-36v: 'Statutum de Moneta cum Articulis'; written in French.

f. 36v: 'Composicio Moneta'; written in French.

ff. 36v-37r: 'Composicio de Ponderibus'.

ff. 37r-37v: 'Statutum de Religiosis'.

ff. 37v-38v: 'Statutum de Mercatoribus'; written in French.

ff. 38v-39r: 'Statutum de Militibus'.

f. 39r: 'Circumspecte agatis'.

f. 39r: 'Regia Prohibitio'.

ff. 39r-39v: 'Capitula de Tonsura Monete'.

ff. 39v-40r: 'Statutum de Emptoribus Terrarum'.

ff. 40r-40v: 'Statutum de habentibus Redditus in London'.

f. 40v: 'Tractatus de antiquo Dominico Corone'.

ff. 40v-41r: 'Statutum Extenta Manerij'.

ff. 41v-41v: 'Consuetudines et Assise de Foresta'.

f. 41v: 'Statutum de Quo Waranto'; only the title survives since the next folio containing the statute is missing.

f. 42r: 'Statutum de Recognitoribus'; fragment of the conclusion.

ff. 43r-44v: 'Fet Asaver'; imperfect at the beginning and end.

ff. 45r-54r: Ralph of Hengham, Summa Magna.

ff. 54r-58r: 'Summa Cadit Assisa'.

ff. 58r-61v: Ralph of Hengham, Summa Parva.

ff. 61v-64r: 'Summa Judicium Essoniorum.

ff. 64v-65r: 'Modus componendi Brevia.

ff. 65r-66v: 'Tractatus Corone'.

ff. 66v-68v: 'Placita Corone'.

ff. 69r-109v: 'Registrum Brevium from the reign of Edward I; imperfect at the beginning.

The manuscript contains several additions:

f. 42v: 'Statutum de Bigamis; added in the 14th or 15th century.

f. 68v: 'Statutum de vocatis ad Warantum'; added in the 14th or 15th century.

f. 68v: 'Statutum de Conjunctim Feoffatis', imperfect; added in the 14th or 15th century.

f. 110r: Legal notes; added in the 14th or 15th century.

Decoration:

3 large (5- to 7-line) puzzle initials in blue and red with red pen-flourishing (ff. 45r, 54r, 58r), including a grining head showing two fangs (f. 45r). Large (4- or 6-line) initials in blue with red pen-flourishing. Paraphs in red or blue.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002047521

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 1690 : Statutes of England; Ralph of Hengham, Summa Parva and Summa Magna; Registrum Brevium

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[1692]/040-002047521

Container:

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

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

French, Middle
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1325

End Date:

1374

Date Range:

2nd quarter of the 14th century-3rd quarter of the 14th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 295 x 180 mm (text space: 230 x 130 mm).

Foliation: ff. 1* + 110 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end); f. 1* is a paper leaf and f. 110 is parchment leaf; f. 1* and f. 110 originally served as flyleaves; f. 42 partly excised; excised initial on f. 87.

Collation: Indicated by quire marks (on the verso of the last leaf of the quire, in Roman and Arabic numerals).

Script: Gothic cursive; written by several scribes.

Binding: British Museum in-house. Brown leather with gold fillets and Harley stamp.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

Henry Worsley (b. 1675, d. 1747), scholar and manuscript collector, envoy at the Court of Portugal (1714-21) and governor of Barbados (1721-31); donated by him to Robert Harley together with other manuscripts from Worsley's collection (now Harley MSS 1585-1747, 1811, 1812): inscribed with his name and the date 1694/5 (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), p. 174 (no. 1690).

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.

J. H. Baker and J. S. Ringrose, A Catalogue of English Legal Manuscripts in Cambridge University Library (Woodbridge: Boydell, 1996), pp. 49, 56, 64, 78-79.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)