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Harley MS 3874
- Record Id:
- 040-002049710
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002049710
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000807.0x000181
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3874
- Title:
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Account of the manors, lands and tenements held by the Crown from Henry III to Edward IV
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 2r-425v: Account of the manors, lands and tenements held by the Crown from Henry III to Edward IV, divided into four parts: Henry III to Edward II (ff. 2r-71v); Edward III to Richard II (ff. 72r-242v); Henry IV to Henry V (ff. 243r-315v); Henry VI to Edward IV (ff. 316r-425v). Each part is organised alphabetically by county.
The manuscript contains a few additions:
f. 1r (parchment pastedown): An inscription: 'Waleys'; added in the (?) 15th century.
f. 1r: A description of the manuscript's contents: 'In this book are contained the Mannours, Lands and Tenements which were held of the king in Capite or Otherwise etc. Temp. Hen. 3. Ed. 1. and Ed. 2. Ed: 3. & Ric: 2. Hen: 4 & Hen: 5 Hen: 6 & Ed: 4'; added in the 17th century.
Decoration:
Cadels in black ink (ff. 71v, 242v, 315v).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002049710", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 3874: Account of the manors, lands and tenements held by the Crown from Henry III to Edward IV" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002049710 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3874 : Account of the manors, lands and tenements held by the Crown from Henry III to Edward IV - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[3866]/040-002049710
- 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:
- 1465
- End Date:
- 1475
- Date Range:
- c 1470
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper; parchment (only f. 1).
Dimensions: 400 x 280 mm (text space: 240 x 205 mm).
Foliation: ff. 425 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end); 1 unfoliated parchment strip on f. 1r; 1 unfoliated paper pastedown on f. [426]recto (note of foliation)
Collation: Indicated by quire signatures.
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: British Museum in-house; brown half leather binding with the Harleian arms gold stamped on the outside covers; marbled endpapers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Peter Le Neve (b. 1661, d. 1729), Rouge Croix Pursuivant, first president of the Society of Antiquaries 1707-1724: his name inscribed on f. 2r: 'Petri Le Neve Norroy' (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), pp. 219-21).
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 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.
Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), p. 218.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- England