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Harley MS 1756
- Record Id:
- 040-002047587
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002047587
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000709.0x000108
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1756
- Title:
- ‘Sir John Bussy’s Book of Fees’
- Scope & Content:
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f. 1*v: Fragments of former binding, one with the inscription ‘Copia feodarum Iohannis Bussy militis domini de Howgham’.
f. 1r: List of contents, added in a contemporary hand.
ff. 54v: Deeds dated from the 13th century onwards, inquests, and acts of homage, mostly relating to Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire. The latest additions (f. 26r) are dated to 6 June 1518.
f. 55r–v: Charter added into the book, an agreement dated 22 August 1473, with memoranda on the verso.
Decoration:
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- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002047587", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 1756: ‘Sir John Bussy’s Book of Fees’" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002047587 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 1756 : ‘Sir John Bussy’s Book of Fees’ - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[1758]/040-002047587
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Anglo-Norman
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1430
- End Date:
- 1470
- Date Range:
- Mid 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: parchment.
Dimensions: 215 × 150 mm.
Foliation: ff. 55 (+ 3 modern flyleaves at the beginning the end, the third with added fragments of a former binding, f. 1*).
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: British Museum, 9 May 1967.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Made for Sir John Bussy (d. 1459); the Bussy Family of Hougham, Lincolnshire retained the book at least until the 16th century.
Provenance:
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, 198.
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), pp. 90–91.
John Smith Roskell, Parliament and Politics in Late Medieval England, vol. 2 (London: Hambledon Press, 1981), p. 48.
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. 1208.3.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Bussy, John, Speaker of the House of Commons and courtier, d 1399
Hussey, John, nobleman and alleged rebel, 1465/6-1537 - Related Material:
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A 17th-century transcription of the manuscript is in Lansdowne MS 871, ff. 16–17.