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Harley MS 4004
- Record Id:
- 040-002049841
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002049841
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000807.0x000204
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 4004
- Title:
- Collection of English law cases; indentures of John Estrete; formulary of English Civil Law
- Scope & Content:
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This composite manuscript consists of three parts that were produced separately and written by different hands.
Contents:
Part 1:
ff. 1r-107v: Collection of English law cases; written in Law French in the last quarter of the 15th century or 1st quarter of the 16th century.
Part 2:
ff. 108v-110r: Copies of Latin indentures of John Estrete (d. c. 1491), Master of the Coinage of Ireland, concerning the manor of Ratoath ('Rathtoucht') in County Meath and the manor of Chapelizod ('Capelle Isolde') with a mill-house in Dublin; dated 1-2 Henry VII (1485-1487).
Part 3:
ff. 112r-244r: Formulary of English Civil Law; written in Latin in the 17th century. Featuring an added letter in English by Thomas Wythe concerning cases against 'Olyver Redgges' of Barham, Suffolk, and Thomas Fuller and Abigail, his wife, both of Great Bealings, Suffolk; dated Helmingham, Suffolk, 18 January 1671 (f. 220r).
This part contains a later addition:
f. 111r: A fragment of an unidentified Latin poem, referring to Tantalus, Ixion and Tityos in Tartarus; written in the late 16th or early 17th century.
Decoration:
ff. 112r-244r only: large initials in black decorated with cadels, one featuring a human face (f. 112r).
f. 1*recto features the offset of a blue initial with red penwork decoration, originating from a late medieval manuscript.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002049841", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 4004: Collection of English law cases; indentures of John Estrete; formulary of English Civil Law" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002049841 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 4004 : Collection of English law cases; indentures of John Estrete; formulary of English Civil Law - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[3997]/040-002049841
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
French, Middle
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1475
- End Date:
- 1699
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 15th century-17th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 295 x 230 mm [ff. 1-107; ff. 108-110]; 290 x 180 mm [ff. 111-244] (text space: 215 x 140mm [ff. 1r-107v]; 220 x 150-160 mm [ff. 108v-110r]; 275 x 135 mm [ff. 111r-244r]).
Foliation: ff. 1* + 244 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end); f. 1* is a paper leaf; f. 111 is a leaf from another manuscript that has been reused as a flyleaf for the third part of the manuscript; f. 220 is a folded paper strip that has been pasted on an unfoliated blank paper leaf.
Collation: Each leaf has been mounted separately onto a paper guard; indicated by catchwords in decorative banderols.
Script: Gothic (ff. 1r-107v; ff. 108v-110r); 17th-century script (ff. 111r-244r).
Binding: British Museum in-house; gold-tooled brown-purple half leather binding with the Harleian arms gold-stamped on the outside covers; marbled endpapers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
John Anstis the Elder (b. 1669, d. 1744), herald and antiquary: his name inscribed on f. 1*recto (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 439).
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 ‘Mr Anstis .A.D. 1719' (f. 1*recto).
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:
- A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), p. 103.
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. 50-52.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- England