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Harley MS 4292
- Record Id:
- 040-002050129
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002050129
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000807.0x000348
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165168704.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 4292
- Title:
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Sanctuary book of Beverley Minster
- Scope & Content:
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ff. 1r–35v: Register recording those seeking sanctuary at Beverley, alternating between lists of names and entries of petitions. Written in many different hands, and seemingly compiled as petitions were made.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002050129", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 4292: Sanctuary book of Beverley Minster" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002050129 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 4292 : Sanctuary book of Beverley Minster - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[4285]/040-002050129
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100165168704.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- English
English, Middle
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1478
- End Date:
- 1540
- Date Range:
- 1478-1540
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 295 × 185 mm. The uniform size of the volume is due to modern repairs added to the base of many pages.
Foliation: ff. 35 (+ 4 modern paper flyleaves and 1 early modern flyleaf at the beginning + 8 modern paper flyleaves at the end).
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: British Museum in-house. Brown leather binding, with the Harleian arms gold-stamped on the upper and lower covers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Beverley, England.
Provenance:
The Collegiate Church of St John the Evangelist, Beverley, East Riding, County Yorkshire: owned the manuscript in the 15th and 16th centuries (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 73).
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:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, ed. by Robert Nares and others, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808–12), iii, 133.
James Raine, Sanctuarium Dunelmense et Sanctuarium Beverlacense, Surtees Society, 5 (London: Nichols, 1837), 109–211, 227–28 https://archive.org/details/sanctuariumdunel00durhrich [partial edition, omitting lists of names; beginning with f. 17v, not 54v as printed].
A. Macdonald, ‘Sanctuary Re-examined’, Notes and Queries, 9 (1962), 444–46.
Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts Preserved in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), p. 73.
Louise Sylvester and Jane Roberts, Middle English Word Studies: A Word and Author Index (Woodbridge: D. S. Brewer, 2000), p. 136.
G.R.C. Davis, Medieval Cartularies of Great Britain and Ireland, ed. by Claire Breay, Julian Harrison, and David M. Smith, 2nd edn (London: British Library, 2010), no. 52.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)