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Harley MS 3205
- Record Id:
- 040-002049036
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002049036
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x000239
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3205
- Title:
- Nova Statuta for 1-50 Edward III
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 14-245r: Nova Statuta for 1-50 Edward III, written in Law French; imperfect.
The manuscript contains a few additions:
ff. 1r-1v: Short texts, enumerating the number of churches, parishes and good clergymen ('bonorum ecclesiasticorum') in England, and explaining distances (e..g 'Cxxv passus faciunt stadium viij stadia faciunt miliare Anglie'); added in the late 14th century.
ff. 2r-2v: Tables with measurements, listing 'longitudo', 'latitudo', 'pedes', and 'pollices'; added in the late 14th century.
ff. 3r-3v: 'Juramentum vicecomitis'; added in the late 14th century.
ff. 5r-13v: Table of contents; added in the late 14th century.
ff. 245v-248r, 248v-251v: Statutes for the 12th year and 15th year of Richard II's reign; added in the late 14th century.
Decoration:
1 large 'Champ' initial in gold on a blue and purple ground with a partial bar border ending in tendrils with daisy buds (f. 14r). Large initials in blue with red pen-flourishing including foliate motifs (ff. 20r, 24v, 28r, 35v, 43r, 50v, 52v, 55, etc.). Large coloured initials in blue or red (ff. 215v, 225v, 229r). Paraphs in red or blue. Catchwords decorated with brown, and occasionally red penwork (e.g., f. 119v).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002049036", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 3205: Nova Statuta for 1-50 Edward III" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002049036 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3205 : Nova Statuta for 1-50 Edward III - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[3206]/040-002049036
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- French, Middle
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1350
- End Date:
- 1399
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 14th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 125 x 85 mm (text space: 80 x 55 mm).
Foliation: ff. 251 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves and 1 parchment leaf at the beginning + 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the end); Lacking folios after f. 153, as noted in a post-medieval (Burscough's) hand in the lower margin of f. 153v; the corners of each folio have been rounded.
Script: Gothic cursive; written by different scribes.
Binding: Post-1600; blind-stamped and gold-tooled brown mottled calf with gold fillets and blind tooling.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
'Richard', 14th century: his name inscribed on f. 4r.
Robert Burscough (b. 1650/51, d. 1709), prebendary of Exeter in 1701, archdeacon of Barnstaple in 1703, rector of Cheriton Bishop in 1705: sold by his widow on 17 May 1715 to Robert Harley, along with other manuscripts (see Diary, ed. by Wright and Wright (1966), I, p. 11 n. 6; Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), pp. 87-88).
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, inscribed as usual by their librarian, Humfrey Wanley ‘17 Maij 1715’ (f. [iv]recto).
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), III (1808), p. 9 (no. 3205).
The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by Cyril Ernest Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), I: 1715-1723, p. 11, n. 6.
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. 87-88.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- England