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Harley MS 3819

Record Id:

040-002049654

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002049654

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000807.0x000149

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 3819

Title:

Statutes of England; Registrum Brevium

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-4v: Lists of chapters of statutes.

ff. 5r-10v: Magna Carta.

ff. 10v-13v: Statuta de Foresta.

ff. 13v-17r: Statuta de Merton.

ff. 17r-25r: Statuta de Marleberg.

ff. 25r-41r: Statuta Prima Westmonasterii.

ff. 41r-45r: Statuta Gloucesterie.

ff. 45r-74v: Statuta Secunda Westmonasterii.

ff. 74v-75r: Statutum Qua Emptores.

ff. 75r-77r: Statutum Quia Fines.

ff. 77r-77v: Statutum Circumspecte Agatis.

ff. 77v-78r: Sub Qua Forma Laici Impetrent Prohibicionem.

ff. 78v-79v: Statutum de Bigamis.

ff. 79v-80v: Statutum de Religiosis.

ff. 80v-81r: Statutum de Vocatis ad Warrantum.

ff. 81v-83r: Statutum de Coniunctim Feoffatis.

ff. 83r-83v: Statutum de Champertoribus.

ff. 83v-84r: Statutum de Quo Heredibus.

ff. 84v-85r: Statutum de Attornatis Karleonensis.

ff. 85r-86v: Statutum Editum apud Lincolniensem.

ff. 86v-89r: Statutum de Wynton.

ff. 89r-94r: Statutum de Scaccario.

ff. 94r-94v: Districiones Scacarii.

ff. 94v-95r: Modus Calumpniandi Essonia.

ff. 95v-96r: Visus Franciplegii.

ff. 96r-97r: Assisa Panis.

ff. 97r-97v: Statutum de Homagio Faciendo.

ff. 97v-98r: Dies Communes in Banco.

ff. 99r-99v: Statutum de Vasto.

ff. 99v-100v: Statutum de Hiis Qui Admissi Sunt.

ff. 100v-101r: Statutum de Anno et Die Bisextili.

ff. 101r-101v: Statutum de Antiquo Dominico Corone.

f. 101v: Statutum Quo Waranto Primum; imperfect (title only).

ff. 103r-158r: Registrum Brevium.

The manuscript contains later additions:

f. 102r: A note in English about the accession to the throne of Queen Mary I (Mary Tudor): 'The Quenes maiestie began to Reygne the xxth daye of July in the yere of Lord God .M. CCCCC. liij she then beyng in the Castle of fframynggame. And so proclaimed thorowghe owtes her Maiesties hole Realme'; apparently written during her reign (1553-1558).

Decoration:

Historiated initials in gold featuring miniatures of seated kings in colours combined with full foliate bar border with ivy and acorns, bird, hybrid creatures (ff. 5r, 103r). Numerous initials in gold and colours with ivy tendrils extending along the text and forming a partial bar border, including hybrid creatures, and human heads. Partial bar border in gold, silver and colours with ivy and human head (f. 78v). Paraphs in alternating red and blue.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002049654

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 3819 : Statutes of England; Registrum Brevium

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[3810]/040-002049654

Container:

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

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Anglo-Norman
English
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1350

End Date:

1399

Date Range:

2nd half of the 14th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 130 x 85 mm (text space: 100 x 50-55 mm).

Foliation: ff. 158 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves and 4 unfoliated parchment flyleaves at the beginning + 4 unfoliated parchment flyleaves and 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the end); 4 unfoliated parchment leaves after f. 4; 3 after f. 101; and 5 after f. 102.

Script: Gothic cursive.

Binding: British Museum in-house binding: gold-tooled speckled brown leather with the initials 'M. B.' (Museum Britannicum) gold stamped on the upper cover.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England (East Anglia?).

Provenance:

Thomas Melle, 16th century: his name ('Thomas Melle') inscribed on f. [iv] verso; and his faded or erased ownership inscription on f. [162]recto: 'Constat Thome Melle […]'.

'M. C.', ? 16th century: their (?) initials inscribed on f. [vi] verso.

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, née Cavendish 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.

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Publications:

Edward Bernard, Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae, 3 vols (Oxford: Sheldonian, 1697), II, p. 84 (no. 7706).

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), p. 84 (no. 3819).

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:

East Anglia, England
England