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Harley MS 2349

Record Id:

040-002048180

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002048180

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000709.0x000359

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 2349

Title:

Collection of canon law texts

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-22v: 'Constitutiones Oxonie'.

ff. 22v-23r: 'Constitutiones Domini Ottobonis super Decimis et Nutrimentis animalium'.

ff. 23r-54r: 'Constitutiones Ottobonis, miseratione Divina, Sancti Adriani Diaconi Cardinalis, Apostolice Sedis Legati; ad perpetuam Rei memoriam'.

ff. 54r-63r: 'Constitutiones Doni Bonefacij Cantuariensis Archiepiscopi, facte in concilio in Concilio apud Westmonasterium celebrato'.

ff. 63r-64r: 'Constitutiones Episcoporum tocius Anglie, condite de Decimis'.

ff. 64r-71r: 'Contitutiones in Concilio apud Redinge celebrato, de Institutionibus et Destitutionibus'.

ff. 71r-90r: 'Constitutiones Domini Archiepiscopi Cantuariensis Fratris Johannis de Pecham'.

ff. 90r-93v: 'Constitutiones Domini Symonis Mepham Cantuariensis Archiepiscopi'.

ff. 93v-98r: 'Constitutio Henrici Lincolniensis Episcopi, De Intestato; quod Sequestrator faciat officum suum, et postmodum propinquiores parentes defuncti ab ipso Squestratore admittant Administrationem'; dated Buckden, 1334.

ff. 98r-100r: 'Mandatum Officialis Oxoniensis Decano de Wodestoke pro publicatione ejusdem Constitutionis'; imperfect.

ff. 100r-111v: 'Constitutiones Domini Johannis Stretford Cantuariensis Archiepiscopi et Apostolice Sedis in Anglia Legati'.

ff. 112r-112v: 'Mandatum Officialis Curie Cantuariensis Domino Ricardo Rectori Ecclesie Sancti Petri in Villa Oxoniensis, Officialis Domini Archidiaconi Oxoniensis Commissario, in Causa Ricardi Overe de Islep, contra Dominum Johannem de Iddeburi et Johannem de Hemmynburgh, dated August 1341'.

The manuscript contains various 14th-century additions:

ff. 112v-113r: 'Formula Scripti, qua quaedam M. in Causa Fornicationis a Judice ordinario appellavit ad audienciam Domini Officialis Curie Cantuariensis'.

ff. 113r-113v: 'Statutum sive Decretam super Decimis de nutrimenti s. Animaliu, ut de Agnis, Lana, Caseo, etc.'.

ff. 113v-114r: 'Decretum Reverendi Patris Domini Johannis de Pecham, Cantuariensis Archiepiscopi nuper in Visitatione sua: super ijs quae vel ad Rectores Ecclesiarum, vel ad Parochianis pertinerent'.

ff. 114v-115v: 'Gracie expediende apud Sedem Apostolicam' and 'Dispensationes a Sede Apostolica'; imperfect.

Decoration:

Large (2-line) initials in blue or red penwork decoration and pen-flourishing. 1 [added] large (1-line) red initial with penwork decoration in blue (f. 114r). Paraphs alternating between blue and red.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002048180

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 2349 : Collection of canon law texts

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[2350]/040-002048180

Container:

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

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1336

End Date:

1355

Date Range:

c 1341-c 1350

Era:

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User Conditions:

Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 180 x 105 mm (text space: 135 x 75 mm).

Foliation: ff. 115 (+ 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; remains of the previous binding (gold- and blind-tooled dark brown sprinkled leather) pasted on the inside covers; re-bound in 1967.

Custodial History:

Origin:

South-East England.

Provenance:

'Giles', 16th century: his (?) ownership inscription on f. 41r: 'This is gylles'; f. 52r: 'This is'; f. 59v: 'This is gl'; f. 63r: 'This is gyllys gy[i] Red'.

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. 664 (no. 2349).

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Places:

Southeastern England