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Harley MS 1807

Record Id:

040-002047638

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002047638

MDARK:

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LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 1807

Title:

Statutes of England

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 2r-11v: 'Lez Tenures'.

f. 12r: 'Kalendare Curia Baronis'.

ff. 12v-33v: 'Curia Baronis'; written in Anglo-Norman.

ff. 34r-36r: 'Kalendare de Natura Brevium' and 'Kalendare de Brevibus Judicialibus'.

ff. 36v-105r: 'Natura Brevium'; written in Anglo-Norman.

ff. 106r-121v: Table of subjects in English statutes, organised alphabetically; written in Anglo-Norman.

ff. 122r-125r: 'Magna Carta Regis Henrici Tertii'.

ff. 125r-: 'Carta de Foresta'.

ff. 126v-127r: 'Sententia lata super Cartas, A.D. 1253'.

ff. 127r-129r: 'Provisiones de Mertona'.

ff. 129r-134r: Statutum de Marleberghe.

ff. 134r-144v: 'Statutum Westmonasterii Primum'.

ff. 144v-147v: 'Statutum Gloucestrie'.

ff. 147v-148r: 'Explanationes ejusdem'.

ff. 148r-148v: 'Statutum Religiosorum'.

ff. 148v-167v: 'Statutua Westmonasterii Secunda'.

ff. 167v-168r: 'Statutum de Emmptoribus Terrarum anno 18 Edwardi Primi'.

ff. 168r-169r: 'Statutum de conjunctim Feoffatis'.

ff. 169r-170r: 'Statutum de Finibus'.

ff. 170r-171r: 'Statutum de Bigamis'.

ff. 171r-172r: 'Consuetudines et Assissae de Foresta'.

ff. 172r-174r: 'Tractatus de Corona'.

ff. 174r-175v: 'Prerogativa Regis'.

ff. 175v-177r: 'Diffiniciones Tenementorum'.

ff. 177r-177v: 'Statutum de Hibernia'.

f. 177v: 'Statutum de Defensione Juris'.

ff. 178r-179v: 'Statutua de Mercatoribus'.

ff. 179v-180r: 'Novum Quo Waranto'.

ff. 180r-180v: 'Statutum de quo Waranto Primum'.

f. 181r: 'Statutum de quo Waranto Secundum'.

f. 181v: 'Statutum de Prohibitionibus'.

ff. 181v-182r: 'Statutum de vocatis ad Warrantum'.

ff. 182r-182v: 'Statutum de Wardis et Releviis'.

ff. 182v-183r: 'Modus faciendi Homagium et Fidelitatem'.

ff. 183r-183v: 'In quibus Casibus in antiquis Dominicis Coronae capienda est Assisa'.

f 183v: 'Statutum de Juratoribus'.

f. 184r: 'Statutum de Conspiratoribus'.

ff. 184r: 'Breve de eodem'.

ff. 184r-184v: 'Statutum de Justiciis assignatis'.

ff. 184v-185r: 'Statutum de Magna Assisa jungenda'.

ff. 185r-185v: 'Statutum de Essoniis calumpniandis'.

ff. 186r-189v: 'Articuli super Cartas'.

ff. 189v-191v: 'Statutum de Articulis Clericorum'.

ff. 191v-192r: 'Statutum de Forincesis vocatis ad Warrantum in Hustengo London'.

ff. 192r-192v: 'Statuta de Gavelkynde vel de habentibus Tenementa in London'.

ff. 192v-193r: 'Statutum de Appellatis'.

ff. 193r-193v: 'Statutum Lincolniae'.

f. 193v: 'Statutum de Anno Bisextili editum apud Wyndesore'.

f. 193v: 'Statutum de Champartie editum apud Berwyke'.

f. 194r: 'Statutum ne quis ponatur in Assisis'.

ff. 194r-194v: 'Statutum de Attornatis Recipiendis et Finibus'.

ff. 194v-195v: 'Statutum Exoniae'.

ff. 196r-197v: 'Articuli super Statutum Exoniae de Coronatoribus'.

ff. 197v-198r: 'Statutum de Militibus faciendis'.

f. 198r: 'Statutum de Hibernia de Terra data in liberum Maritagium'.

ff. 198r-198v: 'Statutum de Religiosis apud Karliolum editum'.

ff. 199v-200r: 'Statutum de Libertate perquirenda'.

ff. 200r-200v: 'Statutum quod vocatur Willemus le Botiller'.

f. 200v: 'Statutum de Prisonam frangentibus'.

f. 201r: 'Statutum de Prisonibus'.

ff. 201r-201v: 'Statutum de Protectionibus calmumpniandis'.

ff. 201v-202v: 'Statutum de Officio Coronatoris'.

ff. 202v-205v: 'Placita Coronae'.

ff. 205v-206v: 'Statutum de Extenta Manerii'.

ff. 206v-208r: 'De Sacramento Vice-comitis et aliorum Ministrorum Domini Regis in Principio Itineris'.

ff. 208r-208v: 'Composicio Monetae'.

f. 208v: 'De Tonsura Monetae'.

ff. 209r-209v: 'Exposiciones Vocabulorum in Cartis Libertatum'.

f. 209v: 'Exposiciones proprietatum Regalium Anglie'.

ff. 210r-223v: 'Capitula Statutorum de Regno Regis Edwardi Tertii'.

ff. 223v-231r: 'Capitula Statutorum de Regno Regis Richardi Secundi'.

ff. 231r-235r: 'Capitula Statutorum de Regno Regis Henrici Quarti'.

ff. 235r-237v: 'Capitula Statutorum de Regno Regis Henrici Quinti'.

ff. 238r-289v: 'Nove Narraciones'.

ff. 292r-293v: List of chapters for the subsequent treatise.

ff. 294r-309v: Collection of legal cases.

The manuscript contains several later additions:

f. 1r: Pen trials, including: 'To my right trustie and wellbelovyed freend'; added in the 16th century.

f. 1v: Memorandum concerning a donation of land by Walter Moyle, Justiciar, and Robert Woode, to Thomas Muschamp in the parish of Camberwell, Surrey; added in the 15th century.

f. 1v: 'Nota a fyne levied of the moyte of the Manors of camerwell and Bredynghurst'; added in the 15th century.

f. 290r: 'Memorandum quod Jania [? Jama] uxor Richardi Saunders peperit John [...] xix die April Anno 12 E. Re. 1570'.

f. 290v: Draft indentures of William Muschamp, dated 1531.

f. 291v: Notes on fees, including 'Wilhelmus Dorsett et Katerina uxore eius ffeoffaverunt', 'Katerina dorsett dedit Wilhelmo Apulton in tak. Anno xxxo h. vjti', dated 1451-1458.

ff. 310r-310v, 311v: Records of the births of members of the Muschamp family (1471-1530), beginning: 'Edithe my doughtir was bourn the xvj daye of November in the xxiijth yere of kyng Henry the vij and hir godmother was my lady Carne aand my lady Length of Stokwell and hir godfather William Brothers of London draper'

f. 311r: Pen trials, including 'most honorable and in your most humble maner'; added in the 16th century.

f. 311r: 'Memorandum that John Slater late of Camerwell in Com. predicto laborer the syxt daye of June stole a spone of Sylver of the value of ten shilling in the house of [? J. D.] Scott of Camerwell [...] vocat a postell spone [...]'; added in the 16th century.

f. 312v: Pen trials, including: 'Love drede and honour god'; added in the 16th century.

Decoration:

Large (6-line) historiated initial in blue with King Henry III in colours inside the letter, in a frame of gold, and with a full foliate border with acanthus leaves and feathering in blue, gold, green, and purple (f. 122r). Large (3- or 4-line) puzzle initials in blue and red or coloured initials in blue or red with pen-flourishing in both colours forming a three-sided border (ff. 2r, 12v, 36v [with purple]). Added marginal drawings of a dragon or serpent (f. 269r); a crown (f. 294r); a rose (f. 297r); a hand holding a stick (f. 307r); a dog chasing an unidentifiable animal (f. 307v); a cat in a pan (f. 309r).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002047638

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 1807 : Statutes of England

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[1809]/040-002047638

Container:

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

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Anglo-Norman
English
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1400

End Date:

1449

Date Range:

1st half of the 15th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 240 x 170 mm (text space: 155 x 100 mm).

Foliation: ff. 312 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end).

Collation: Indicated by catchwords; each quire has been mounted separately onto a paper guard.

Script: Gothic cursive.

Binding: British Museum in-house; red half leather binding with the Harleian arms gold stamped on the outside covers; rebound in 1968; red speckled fore edge.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

An unknown owner: their erased inscriptions on ff. 74r and 309v.

'John Holywell', 16th century: his ownership inscription on f. 311r: 'John Holywell haves thys bock' (not in Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)).

Thomas Muschamp of Peckham, Surrey, owned in the late 15th century: his ownership inscription on f. 2r and f. 309v: 'Iste liber constat Thome [...]'; records of the births of members of this family (1471-1530) are on ff. 310r-310v and 311v; his memorandum on f. 1v (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 248).

? William Muschamp of Peckham, Surrey, owned in 1531: his draft indentures inscribed on f. 290v (not in Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)).

Edward Muschamp, in 1553: inscribed with his name and this year on f. 312v: 'Edwarde Muschampe 1553'; his ownership inscription on f. 290r: 'Edwardus Muschamp ys honor of thys boke' (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 248).

Mr Noble, early 18th century: Humfrey Wanley, librarian to Robert and Edward Harley, inscribed on f. [iv]recto: 'Bought from Mr Noble' (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 253).

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. 245 (no. 1807).

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. 248, 253.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Places:

England