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Harley MS 3850
- Record Id:
- 040-002049686
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002049686
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000807.0x000169
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3850
- Title:
- Peter Quivel, Constitutions from the Exeter Synod of April 1287
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-52v: Peter Quivel, Bishop of Exeter, Constitutions from the Exeter Synod of April 1287.
The manuscript contains a later addition:
f. 53r: List of payees or payers, including the names of 'Mastres Tolkayne', 'Marget Koker', 'William Rogerman', 'Robart Estebrocke', 'Johanna Lache Brocke', ''John Locke', 'Richard Haysayd', 'Jhon Haysayd', 'John Medlond', 'John Welker', 'Thomas Medland', 'Thomas Benet', 'Thomas Pllestret', 'Wylliam Rede', 'Harre Pyllestret', 'Thomas Rudford', 'John Parys', 'Margere Benet', 'Wylliam Benet', 'Wylliam Bychyppe', 'Rychard Selden', 'John Marte', 'John Efforde', 'Elys Partryge', 'John Bugger' (among others); added in the 16th century.
Decoration:
Large (2-line) initials in blue with red penwork decoration and pen-flourishing. Rubrics in red. Paraphs in blue or red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002049686", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 3850: Peter Quivel, Constitutions from the Exeter Synod of April 1287" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002049686 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3850 : Peter Quivel, Constitutions from the Exeter Synod of April 1287 - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[3842]/040-002049686
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1400
- End Date:
- 1499
- Date Range:
- 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 200 x 130 mm (text space: 135 x 90 mm).
Foliation: ff. 53 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the end).
Collation: Indicated by catchwords and leaf signatures.
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: Post-1600: blind-stamped and gold-tooled brown speckled Harleian binding.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
'John', 16th century: his name inscribed in the upper margins of ff. 40v and 41r: 'Thys ys John […] hys land'.
Samuel Knott (d. 1687), rector of Combe: notes in his hand throughout the manuscript and his name inscribed in the lower margin on f. 48v: 'S. Kannutus' (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 211).
Robert Burscough (b. 1651, d. 1709), archdeacon of Barnstaple: acquired from him for the Harley library on 17 May1715 (see Diary, ed. by Wright and Wright (1966), I, p. 11 n. 6; Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 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. 1r).
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 forms 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. 90.
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. 88, 211.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- Exeter, England