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Harley MS 3994

Record Id:

040-002049831

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002049831

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000807.0x0001fa

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 3994

Title:

Statutes of England; a register of the English chancery

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1v-6v: Lists of chapters for major English statutes included in this manuscript.

ff. 7r-11r: Magna Carta.

ff. 11v-13r: Carta de Foresta.

ff. 13r-13v: 'Confirmacio duarum Cartarum'.

ff. 13v-14v: Sentencia Cartarum.

ff. 14v-15v: Assisa Foresta.

ff. 15v-18v: Statuta Gloucestrie.

ff. 18v-19r: Explanaciones eorundem.

ff. 19r-20v: Statutum de Mertona.

ff. 20v-26v: Statutum de Marleberge.

ff. 26v-39r: Statutum Westmonasterij Primi.

ff. 39r-65v: Statutum Westmonasterij Secundi.

ff. 65v-66v: 'Ultimum Statutum Westmonasterij'; the Statute of Quia Emptores or Statute of Westminster III of 1290.

ff. 66v-67r: Statutum de Emptoribus Terrarum.

ff. 67r-68v: Statutum de Vigiliis.

ff. 68v-70r: Statutum Monete.

ff. 70r-71r: Capitulum de Tonsura Monete.

ff. 71r-74r: Statutum de Scaccario.

ff. 74r-75r: Districciones Scaccarii.

ff. 75r-75v: Articuli Statute Wyntonie.

ff. 75v-78r: Statuta Wyncestrie.

ff. 78r-81r: Statutum de Mercatoribus.

ff. 81r-82r: Articula contra Prohibicionem Regis.

f. 82r: Composicio Monete [de] Mensuris et Ponderis.

ff. 82v-83r: Composicio de Ponderibus.

ff. 83r-84r: Statutum de Accione Wasti.

ff. 84r-84v: Statutum de Duello et Assisa.

ff. 84v-85r: Statutum de Conspiratoribus.

f. 85r: Statutum de Berkynge.

ff. 85r-87r: Placita que Placitantur coram Justiciariis Assingnatis.

ff. 87r-88r: Statutum de Militibus.

ff. 88r-88v: Novum Quo Warranto.

ff. 88v-90r: Vetus Quo Warranto.

ff. 90r-90v: Statutum de Anno Bisextili.

ff. 90v-91v: Statutum de Bigamis.

ff. 91v-92r: Modus Calumpniandi Essoniarum.

ff. 92r-93r: Statutum de Assisa Panis.

f. 93r: Assisa Cervisie.

ff. 93r-94r: Dies Communes in Banco.

ff. 94r-97r: Notabilia Statutorum.

ff. 97r-98v: Capitula de Franco Plegio.

ff. 98v-99r: Modus Faciendi Homagium et Fidelitatem.

ff. 99r-111v: Ralph of Hengham, Summa Parva or Summa Parva Hengham.

ff. 112r-119r: Tractatus de Bastardia.

ff. 119r-125v: Summa cum sit Necessarium.

ff. 125v-133v: Summa Judicium Essoniorum.

ff. 133v-145v: Summa Cadit Assisa.

ff. 145v-154v: Summa Excepciones contra Brevia.

ff. 155r-210r: Registrum Brevium or Registrum de Cancellaria.

The manuscript contains a later addition:

f. 210v: A Latin saying 'Omnibus omnia non mea sompnia discere possum' and the beginning of an indenture: 'Pateat universis per presentes Nos'; added in the early 14th century.

Decoration:

2 large (4-line and 10-line) puzzle initials in blue and red with penwork decoration and pen-flourishing in red ink (ff. 7r, 155r). Large (2- to 3-line) initials in blue or red with penwork decoration in the opposite colour. Small (1-line) plain initials in blue and red. Paraphs in blue or red. Added marginal drawings in brown ink of a lion (f. 7r), hybrid figures (ff. 7r, 8r), a rabbit (f. 9r), and a merman holding a shield and dagger (f. 11r).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002049831

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 3994 : Statutes of England; a register of the English chancery

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[3987]/040-002049831

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:

1295

End Date:

1330

Date Range:

c 1300-c 1325

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 220 x 140 mm (text space: 165 x 90 mm).

Foliation: ff. 211 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves and 2 unfoliated parchment flyleaves at the beginning + 2 unfoliated parchment flyleaves and 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end); 1 unfoliated parchment stub after f. 154 and 1 after f. 208; 3 unfoliated blank but ruled parchment leaves after f. 154

Collation: Indicated by catchwords; each quire has been mounted separately onto a paper guard.

Script: Gothic cursive.

Binding: British Museum in-house; red half leather binding with the Harleian arms gold stamped on the outside covers; the previous Harleian binding of blind-stamped and gold-tooled speckled brown leather has been pasted on the insides of the upper and lower covers; labels of the previous spine, gold stamped with the texts: 'Statuta Vetera' and 'Registr[um] de Cancellaria' have been pasted on the fourth unfoliated blank paper flyleaf at the beginning (f. [iv]recto); rebound in 1967.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

'Thomas', owned in the 16th century: his partially erased ownership inscription on f. 210v: 'Iste liber constat Thom[as] […]'.

'Kyllygrewe', 16th century: inscribed with their name on f. 39r (outer margin) and f. 210v (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 327).

Robert Thornburgh, 16th century: inscribed with his name on f. 210v (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 213).

William Hodges, 'junior', owned in 1553: according to an inscription on f. 211r, transcribed below (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 191).

John Bowyer, owned in 1553: received the manuscript from William Hodges on 16 May 1553, according to an inscription on f. 211r: 'Ex dono Wilhelmi Hodges Juniorij fact. Johanni Bowyar 16 May 1553 (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 79).

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:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), p. 102.

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. 79, 191, 213, 327.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Ralph of Hengham, Ralph de, Chief Justice of Common Pleas, b in or before 1235-1311,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000080784095

Places:

England