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Harley MS 4131
- Record Id:
- 040-002049968
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002049968
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000807.0x000295
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 4131
- Title:
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Register of the Chancellor of the University of Oxford; rental of King Henry VIII's lands in Herefordshire and Gloucestershire; jury presentments for Gloucestershire
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-363v: Register of the Causes of the Chancellor of the University of Oxford from 1628 to 1633.
ff. 364v-477v: Rental of the royal lands in Herefordshire and Gloucestershire in the 30th year of the reign of King Henry VIII (1538/9).
ff. 478r-571v: Jury presentments at quarter sessions for the county of Gloucestershire from the 37th to the 43rd years of the reign of Elizabeth I (1594/5-1600/1).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002049968", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 4131: Register of the Chancellor of the University of Oxford; rental of King Henry VIII's lands in Herefordshire and Gloucestershire; jury…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002049968 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 4131 : Register of the Chancellor of the University of Oxford; rental of King Henry VIII's lands in Herefordshire and Gloucestershire;… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[4124]/040-002049968
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1538
- End Date:
- 1633
- Date Range:
- 1538-1633
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 305 x 200 mm.
Foliation: ff. 571 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end); the foliation includes many smaller paper leaves and strips; ff. 34, 35, 36 are small paper strips that have been pasted on an unfoliated blank paper leaf between f. 33 and f. 37
Script; 16th- and 17th-century script.
Binding: British Museum in-house; brown gold-tooled leather with the Harleian arms gold stamped on the outside covers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
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 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. 119.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- England