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Harley MS 1761
- Record Id:
- 040-002047592
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002047592
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000709.0x00010d
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1761
- Title:
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Cartulary of Hyde Abbey
- Scope & Content:
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f. 1*r: Loose notes added to a parchment flyleaf (bound upside down).
f. 1**r–v: Notes by Humfrey Wanley.
f. 1v: Results of an enquiry into the jurisdiction of Hyde Abbey over the manor of Micheldever in Southampton.
ff. 2v–3r: Miscellaneous additions (f. 2r partially cut away).
ff. 3v–8v: Contemporary table of contents.
f. 9r–v: Miscellaneous additions.
ff. 10r–13v: Alphabetical index, showing that sections are wanting for Stoneham, Hampshire; Sanderstead and Lingfield, Surrey; and part of that for Chisledon, Wiltshire.
ff. 14r–22r: Annalistic chronicle for the years 874 to 1478, left unfinished.
ff. 23r–183r: Cartulary, similar in arrangement and scope to Cotton MS Domitian A XIV (of which this is a revision), and with similar miscellaneous additions. (More detailed contents in A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts, ii, 205–07.)
ff. 184r–190v: Miscellaneous additions (15th century).
Decoration:
Rubrics and running heads in red. Initial letters of each document are enlarged, sometimes with black penwork decoration.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002047592", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 1761: Cartulary of Hyde Abbey" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002047592 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 1761 : Cartulary of Hyde Abbey - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[1763]/040-002047592
- 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: 330 × 240 mm.
Foliation: ff. 195 (+ 4 modern flyleaves at the beginning and end), with some leaves wanting; contemporary foliation, ‘i’–‘clxxxlii’.
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: British Museum.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Benedictine abbey of the Holy Trinity, St Mary the Virgin, and St Peter, Hyde, Hampshire.
Provenance:
John Fisher of Chilton Candover (d. 1591), MP for Stockbridge: took many items from the abbey archives (Brooks, ‘The oldest document in the college archives?’, p. 192). A set of extracts made from the manuscript by his descendant William Bethell in 1576 survives as Winchester College Muniments 19625 (Charters of the New Minster, Winchester, ed. by Miller, p. xliii; Harvey, ‘Hyde Abbey and Winchester College’, p. 50 n. 11).
Hancock, bookseller (early 18th century): inscribed by Humfrey Wanley, ‘Bought of Hancock the Devils Broker’ (f. 1**v); cf. his letter to Arthur Charlett, 4 February 1714, attempting to find out the previous owner (Letters, no. 140).
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, 205–07.
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), ii, 433(a).
Liber monasterii de Hyda, ed. by Edward Edwards (London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1866), pp. lxxxviii–xc.
J.H. Harvey, ‘Hyde Abbey and Winchester College’, Papers and Proceedings of the Hampshire Field Club and Archaeological Society, 20 (1956), pp. 49–56.
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. 178.
Sheila Himsworth, Winchester College Muniments: A Descriptive List, 3 vols (Chichester: Phillimore, 1976–84), ii, 48.
N.P. Brooks, ‘The oldest document in the college archives? The Micheldever forgery’, in Winchester College: Sixth-centenary essays, ed. by Roger Custance (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982), pp. 189–222.
Letters of Humfrey Wanley: Palaeographer, Anglo-Saxonist, Librarian, 1672-1726: With an Appendix of Documents, ed. by P. L. Heyworth (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989), no. 140.
Nicholas Vincent, ‘Medieval Cartularies: Additions and Corrections’, Monastic Research Bulletin, 3 (1997), 7–38 (p. 30).
Charters of the New Minster, Winchester, ed. by Sean Miller, Anglo-Saxon Charters, 9 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), pp. xxxix–xl, xlii, xliii.
Alexander R. Rumble, Property and Piety in Early Medieval Winchester: Documents Relating to the Topography of the Anglo-Saxon and Norman City and its Minsters (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2002).
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. 1047.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Related Material:
- Ff. 80–81 comprise the middle bifolium of a gathering now separated from the rest of the manuscript: the other four leaves are now Winchester, College Fellows’ Library, Muniments, 2220.