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Harley MS 2036
- Record Id:
- 040-002047867
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002047867
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000709.0x000220
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2036
- Title:
- Collection of law cases argued in Westminster Hall or extracted from the Plea Rolls from the reign of Elizabeth I
- Scope & Content:
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ff. 1r-157r: Collection of law cases argued in Westminster Hall or extracted from the Plea Rolls from the reign of Elizabeth I (up to 33 Elizabeth I [1590-1591]); written in Law French.
The manuscript contains a few additions:
ff. [iv]recto-[iv]verso: Fragment of a (?) Latin legal document, written in the 17th century.
ff. 158r-158v: Fragment of an English legal document, referring to 'Margaria Butler' and dated 12 March 1662.
ff. 159r-159v: A legal document in Latin and English, 'in the monethe of September or October last paste, the said Elizabeth [Linaker]beinge uniustly provoked by the said Hugh Roberts hee calling her drunken queane and biddinge her get in for shame, thou art drunke, get to the […] Cage thou blackmouthe huswife and upon such like scandalous words shee did call the said Hugh Roberts a beggare, bratt, et also respondet negative'; dated 16 October 1665.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002047867", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 2036: Collection of law cases argued in Westminster Hall or extracted from the Plea Rolls from the reign of Elizabeth I" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002047867 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 2036 : Collection of law cases argued in Westminster Hall or extracted from the Plea Rolls from the reign of Elizabeth I - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[2038]/040-002047867
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
French
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1590
- End Date:
- 1609
- Date Range:
- 1590s-1600s
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 305 x 205 mm (text space: approx. 285 x 155 mm).
Foliation: ff. 159 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end); ff. 17, 114 and 156 are paper strips.
Collation: Each quire has been mounted separately onto a paper guard.
Script: 16th- and 17th-century script.
Binding: British Museum in-house; brown half leather with the Harleian arms gold-stamped on the outside covers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
An unknown early modern English owner: their possible pressmark written in black ink (upside down) on f. [iv]verso: 'F 9.ii.'.
Holme family of Chester, arms painters and antiquaries: acquired from them by Robert Harley in 1710; probably their title inscription on f. 10r (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), pp. 194-95).
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, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), II (1808), p. 408.
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. 194-95.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- England