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Harley MS 3588

Record Id:

040-002049420

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002049420

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000807.0x000061

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 3588

Title:

Collection of documents and tracts, mainly relating to Civil Law and taxation

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-6r: Index digestorum, constitutionum, et institutionum juris civilis'.

ff. 7r-37v: Index […] de Historia Jurie et […] Lib. 4. Institutionum'.

ff. 38r-52r: 'Selectae iuris civilis decisiones').

ff. 53r-59r: 'De verborum [Juris] significatione'.

ff. 60r-71r: 'De diversis regulis Juris antiqui'.

ff. 72r-72v, 82r: 'Imperatorum nomina, quorum Constitutiones 12 libris sunt insertae'.

ff. 73r-81r': Conjunctiones titulorum sive rubricarum utriusque juris'.

ff. 83r-90v: 'Taxae sacrae poenitentiariae Apostolicae'.

ff. 91r-97r: 'Computum Bullarum provisionis'.

ff. 98r-100v: 'Informatio super expeditione Cathedralium Ecclesiarum'.

ff. 101r-102r: 'Tabulae taxationum'.

ff. 103r-117r: 'De signatura Justitiae'.

ff. 118r-119v: Tax records for ''Joannes du mar', protonotary apostolic of Le Mans.

ff. 120r-121r: 'Epistola officialis ad quondam Carolum Maxault, data Romae apud Sanctum Petrum'; dated (?) 1555.

ff. 122r-123r: 'Tenor concordati inter nobiles et reverndos Dominos A. et L.'.

ff. 124r-250r: 'Tractatus I. V. Doctoris D. D. Francisci Goethalsii [Franciscus Goethalsius (b. 1539, d. 1616)] […] De judicio et artibus judiciariis liber'.

ff. 252r-339v: 'La practique de France: compose en forme d'alphabet par M. de Cousages'.

ff. 340r-348r: Law tracts in French, entitled: 'Cy Comance le Livre des Bonnis meurs compose par [...] messier nycolas Corbin docteur en droitz Civil et Canon en son [...] conseiller du Roy en son grand Coursee'.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002049420

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 3588 : Collection of documents and tracts, mainly relating to Civil Law and taxation

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[3590]/040-002049420

Container:

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

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

French
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1550

End Date:

1599

Date Range:

2nd half of the 16th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: 295 x 200 mm (text space: approximately 255 x 190 mm).

Foliation: ff. 348 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end); 5 unfoliated blank paper leaves after f. 71; 1 after f. 81; 3 after f. 97; 4 after f. 100; 2 after f. 250; 1 after f. 339

Script: 16th-century script.

Binding: British Museum in-house; marbled paper over boards.

Custodial History:

Origin:

France.

Provenance:

Hierosme Corbin, 16th century, owned ff. 340-348: his name inscribed on f. 251r: 'Hierosme Corbin'; the section contains law tracts by 'Nycolas Corbin', perhaps his relative (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 111); his name also inscribed in an incunable of Franciscus Philelphus, Orationes [now Oxford, Bodleian Library, P-276].

Pierre Séguier (b. 1588, d. 1672), chancellor of France from 1635 (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 300).

Andrew Hay (d. 1754?), book dealer: sold together with other manuscripts from the Séguier collection on 5 September 1720 (see Diary, ed. by Wright and Wright (1966), I, p. 68 n. 1; Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 183).

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 ‘5 Septembris, 1720’ (f. [ii] 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:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), pp. 44-45.

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. 68 n. 1.

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. 111, 183, 300.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Places:

France