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Harley MS 1755

Record Id:

040-002047586

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002047586

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000709.0x000107

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 1755

Title:

Collection of English legal texts, including Ralph of Hengham's Summa Parva and Summa Magna

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-2v: Consuetudines Kancie; written in Anglo-Norman.

ff. 2v-3r: De Sacramento Vicecomitum et aliorum Ministrourum Regis in Principio Itineris.

f. 3v: Modus Calumpniandi Essonia.

ff. 3v-4r: Dies communes in Banco.

f. 4r-4v: Dies Dotis.

ff. 4v-5v: Visus Franci-plegij.

ff. 5v-6r: Modus faciendi Homagium et Fidelitatem.

ff. 6r-6v: Assisa Panis.

ff. 6v-7r: Assisa Cervisie.

f. 7r: Lucrum Pistoris.

ff. 7r-8v: Composicio facta ad puniendum Infringentes Assisam, Forstallarios, et huiusmodi Menestrallos.

ff. 8v-9v: Modus admensurandi Terram.

ff. 9v-11r: Expositiones vocabularum in Cartis.

ff. 11r-12r: De Ponderibus et Mensuris.

ff. 12r-19r: Tractatus de bastardia.

ff. 19r-20r: Extenta Manerij.

f. 20v: Legal notes; written in Anglo-Norman.

ff. 21r-30r: Cadit Assisa.

ff. 30r-47v: Fet a saver.

ff. 47v-52r: Excepciones ad cassandum Brevia.

ff. 52-52v: Legal notes; written in Anglo-Norman.

ff. 53r-60v: Excepciones contra Brevia.

ff. 60v-65v: Modus Ordinandi Brevia in suis Casibus.

ff. 66r-75v: Ralph of Hengham, Summa Parva (Parvum Hengham)

ff. 75v-97r: Ralph of Hengham, Summa Magna (Magnum Hengham).

ff. 97r-98r: In quibus Casibus in antiquis Dominicis Coronae capiendi est Assisa Nove Disseisine.

ff. 98r-100v: Capitula reddenda Militibus electis de Foresta; imperfect at the end.

The manuscript contains a few additions:

f. 1*recto: Table of contents; added in the 17th century.

f. 2*verso: Legal note in French; added in the (?) 17th century.

f. 6v: Inscription 'Saltmersh'; written in the (?) 15th century.

ff. 20v, 52r, 52v, etc.: Annotations; added in the 15th century.

Decoration:

2 large puzzle initials in blue and red with pen-flourishing in the same colours (ff. 21r, 30r). 3 smaller initial in blue with red pen-flourishing (f. 39v, 41r, 44v). Coloured initials in red ink. Spaces for initials left blank. Paraphs in red or blue. Added manicula in a medieval hand.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002047586

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 1755 : Collection of English legal texts, including Ralph of Hengham's Summa Parva and Summa Magna

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[1757]/040-002047586

Container:

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

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Anglo-Norman
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1300

End Date:

1349

Date Range:

1st half of the 14th century

Era:

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User Conditions:

Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 215 x 140 mm (text space: 155 x 95 mm).

Foliation: ff. 1*-2* + 100 (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning + 2 at the end); ff. 1*-2* are parchment leaves at the beginning that originally served as flyleaves.

Collation: Indicated by catchwords.

Script: Gothic cursive.

Binding: Post-1600: Binding of brown mottled calf with gold fillets and blind tooling.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England

? Richard Minshull, son of Randle Minshull of Nantwich, Chester, gentleman, Lincoln's Inn 1614: his name inscribed on f. 1*recto: 'Rychard Minshull Lincoln hospitii' (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 241).

John Anstis the elder (b. 1669, d. 1744), herald and antiquary, gift to Robert Harley (prior to 1724) together with other manuscripts: donated the manuscript to Robert Harley according to an inscription on f. 2*verso: 'Viro Praenobili et Amplissimo Roberto Harley. DD. J. Anstis' (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 241).

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. 198 (no. 1755).

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. 50-51, 241.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Ralph of Hengham, Ralph de, Chief Justice of Common Pleas, b in or before 1235-1311,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000080784095

Places:

England