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Harley MS 3765
- Record Id:
- 040-002049597
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002049597
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000807.0x000112
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3765
- Title:
- Register of the chantry of St Saviour, Waterford
- Scope & Content:
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The only known surviving register of a medieval Irish chantry:
f. 1*r: Original cover, with inscriptions.
f. 1*v: Added theological commonplaces.
ff. 1r–4v: Added documents on gifts to the chantry.
ff. 5r–38r: General register, arranged topographically, opening with the chantry’s foundation charter. Includes Gerald of Wales’ text of the statutes of the Council of Cashel, 1772 (ff. 32v–33r).
ff. 38v–40r: ‘The Statutes of the Goddes Mens Hous besides the Trinite Cherch’ (another foundation of John Collyn).
ff. 40r–41v: Documents defining relationships between the chantry and other ecclesiastical institutions.
f. 42r: Added text on almsgiving, written on what was formerly the inside cover.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002049597", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 3765: Register of the chantry of St Saviour, Waterford" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002049597 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3765 : Register of the chantry of St Saviour, Waterford - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[3766]/040-002049597
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English, Middle
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1482
- End Date:
- 1489
- Date Range:
- 1482-1480s
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Dimensions: 270 × 180 mm.
Foliation: ff. i + 42 (+ 4 modern flyleaves at the beginning and end).
Script: Gothic cursive, likely written by John Collyn.
Binding: British Museum, rebound August 1964; ff. 1* and 64 are the covers of the original limp parchment binding, stained dark brown (with remnants of red wax on f. 1*r).
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Chantry of St Saviour, Waterford, part of Christ Church Cathedral: the book likely remained there after the Dissolution. The book has many personal documents of John Collyn (d. 1484), dean of the cathedral from 1441, who founded the chantry in 1470, and it is also likely that he created the book: the memorandum at the base of f. 38r, in the same hand as the rest of the book but added at a slightly later time, refers to him in the first person.
Provenance:
Elizabeth Mey and William O’Calli (15th century): inscribed (f. 42r).
Luke (?)Cleer (16th/17th century): inscribed (f. 1*v).
Thomas Quoan, treasurer of Waterford Cathedral, 1608?–22?: inscribed (ff. 1*v, 42r).
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, ed. by Robert Nares and others, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808–12), iii, 59.
Standish Hayes O’Grady, Robin Flower, and Myles Dillon, Catalogue of Irish Manuscripts in the British Museum, 3 vols (London: British Museum, 1926–53), ii, 174.
G. Mac Niocaill, ‘Registrum cantariae s. Salvatoris Waterfordensis’, Analecta Hibernica, 23 (1966), 135–222, https://jstor.org/stable/25511892.
Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts Preserved in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 105, 238, 260.
G.R.C. Davis, Medieval Cartularies of Great Britain and Ireland, ed. by Claire Breay, Julian Harrison, and David M. Smith, 2nd edn (London: British Library, 2010), no. 1395.
The register of St Saviour’s Chantry of Waterford = Registrum cantariae s. Salvatoris Waterfordensis, BL, Harleian MS 3765, trans. by Niall Byrne with Michael Byrne, rev. by Kenneth Nicholls (Dublin: Irish Manuscripts Commission, 2013).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Cathedral church of the Holy Trinity, Christ Church, Waterford, Ireland, 11th century-
- Related Material:
- Sir James Ware (b. 1594, d. 1666), antiquary and historian, made extracts from the book dated 28 December 1663, now Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B.506, f. 63r (Mac Niocaill, p. 138).