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Harley MS 3341
- Record Id:
- 040-002049172
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002049172
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x0002f1
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3341
- Title:
- Statutes of Edward III and Richard II
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-234r: Statutes of Edward III and Richard II in French, including a table of contents (ff. 1-11v).
The manuscript contains a later addition:
ff. 235v-236v: Unfinished practice sentences in English: 'At my begynnynge god by Spa' and 'To my Ryght worshpfull'; added in the 16th century.
Decoration:
Large initial in blue with pen-flourished decoration in red (f. 12r). Initials in blue with pen-flourished decoration in red. Paraphs in red and blue. Two coats of arms in blue and red ink (ff. 146v-147r).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002049172", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 3341: Statutes of Edward III and Richard II" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002049172 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3341 : Statutes of Edward III and Richard II - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[3342]/040-002049172
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
French, Middle
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1400
- End Date:
- 1449
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 155 x 110 mm (text space: 110 x 75 mm).
Foliation: ff. 236 (+ 1 unfoliated blank paper flyleaf and 2 unfoliated blank but ruled parchment flyleaves at the beginning + 1 unfoliated blank paper flyleaf at the end); 3 unfoliated blank ruled leaves between f. 11 and f. 12; f. 235 is blank but ruled parchment leaf and f. 236 is a blank parchment leaf; both leaves originally served as flyleaves
Collation: Gatherings mostly of 8, with quire signatures in the lower margin of the rectos in the first half of each gathering and horizontal catchwords in the lower right corner of the last verso.
Script: Gothic cursive
Binding: Post-1600. 'Harleian' binding of blind- and gilt-tooled mottled brown morocco, attributable to Thomas Elliott; marbled endleaves.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
An unknown 15th-century owner: perhaps their unidentified heraldic arms in colours in the lower margin of f. 146v and f. 147r.
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), III (1808), p. 18 [no. 3341].
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- England