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Harley MS 3652

Record Id:

040-002049484

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002049484

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000807.0x0000a1

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 3652

Title:

English statutes; Registrum Cancellarie; Registrum brevium

Scope & Content:

This manuscript contains collections of English statutes and laws until the reign of Richard II, written in Latin and French, including statutes for Westminster, Exeter and Winchester (ff. 1r-29r), and a chancery register (ff. 30r-54r).

Contents:

ff. 1r-12v: 'Statutum Westmonasterii secundum'.

ff. 12v-13r: 'Visus franci plegii'.

ff. 13r-13v: 'Extenta Manerii'.

f. 13v: 'Modus faciendi homagium et fidelitatem'.

ff. 13v-14v: 'Statutum de Bigamis'.

ff. 14v-15v: 'Articuli coram Justiciariis itinerantibus'.

ff. 15v-16r: 'Sacramentum Justiciariorum, Vicecomitum et Regis'.

ff. 16r-16v: 'Assisa Panis et Cerevisiae'.

f. 16v: 'Compositio Mensurarum et Monetae'.

ff. 16v-17r: 'Statutum Westmonasterii tertium'.

ff. 17r-17v: 'Dies communes in Banco, et de Dotis'.

ff. 17v-19r: 'Statuta de religiosis, de ponendo in Assisam et priatis, de Moneta et de consipiratoribus'.

ff. 19r-21v: 'Statuta de quo warranto, et de Scaccario'.

ff. 21v-23r: 'Statutum de Actone Burnell'.

f. 23r: 'Breve super statutum'.

ff. 23r-23v: 'Articuli contra prohibitionem'.

ff. 23v-25v: 'Statutum Exonie'.

ff. 25v-26r: 'Statutum Wintonie'.

ff. 26v-27r: 'Statutum de militibus'.

ff. 27r-27v: 'Statutum de Gravelet in London'.

f. 27v: 'Modus calumpniandi Esson'.

ff. 27v-28r: 'Statutum factum 38 E. 3'.

ff. 28r-29r: 'Statutum 2 R. 2. de feoffatis etc. Wallie reparandis'.

ff. 30r-54r: 'Registrum Cancellarie'.

f. 54v: Legal texts and notes.

ff. 55r-80v:' Registrum Brevium'; imperfect at the beginning and end.

ff. 81r-82v: 'Statutum Westmonasterii secunda'; imperfect at the beginning.

ff. 82v-86r: 'Statuta de Gloucestrie'.

ff. 86r-88v: 'Statuta Wincestrie'.

ff. 89r-110r, 111r-168v: 'Statuta Regis Edwardi 3 et Ricardi 2'.

f. 110v: A list of monarchs of England who were killed in battle.

f. 169v: An example of a legal document.

The manuscript contains a later addition:

f. 168v: Prayer, beginning: 'Veni creat[o]r spiritus'; added in the 15th century.

Decoration:

4 large (6- to 8-line) puzzle initials with penwork decoration, pen-flourishing and partial (1-sided) borders in blue and red (ff. 1r, 12v, 13r, 30r). Large (3-line) initials in blue with pen-flourished decoration in red. Paraphs in blue or red.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002049484

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 3652 : English statutes; Registrum Cancellarie; Registrum brevium

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[3654]/040-002049484

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:

1300

End Date:

1399

Date Range:

14th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 245 x 160 mm (text space: 190 x 120/125 mm).

Foliatio: ff. 169 (+ 4 unfoliated early modern paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end); 1 unfoliated and completely detached parchment strip with a few Latin words from a 14th-century legal text in the gutter between f. 32 and f. 33; ff. 167 and 169 are parchment strips.

Scrip: Gothic cursive (Anglicana).

Binding: Post-1600: 'Harleian' binding of blind- and gilt-tooled mottled brown leather, attributable to Thomas Elliott; marbled endleaves.

Custodial History:

Origin:

Southern England (? London).

Provenance:

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), III (1808), p. 49 (no. 3652).

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Places:

London, England
Southern England