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Harley MS 4351
- Record Id:
- 040-002050188
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002050188
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000807.0x0003a7
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 4351
- Title:
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Registrum Brevium of Edward I
- Scope & Content:
-
Contents:
ff. 1r-133r: Registrum Brevium from the reign of King Edward I (r. 1272–1307); largely written in Latin, but including letters in French towards the end.
The manuscript contains later additions:
f. 37r (lower margin): A proverb in English: 'Let virtue springe and vyce decaye and god will turne his wrath awaye'; written in the 16th century.
f. 133v: Notes in Latin about the reign of King Edward I, from his coronation until the year 1308 ('villa de Berewik capta fuit', but here misdated to the year 1333: 'Ml CCCxxxiij'); written in the 14th or 15th century.
f. 133v: Astronomical memorandum, beginning; 'Memorandum quod ad inveniendum circulum lunarem [etc.]'; written in the late 14th or early 15th century.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002050188", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 4351: Registrum Brevium of Edward I" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002050188 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 4351 : Registrum Brevium of Edward I - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[4344]/040-002050188
- 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:
- 1275
- End Date:
- 1324
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 13th century-1st quarter of the 14th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 190 x 130 mm (text space: 150 x 95 mm).
Foliation: ff. 133 (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf and 2 unfoliated parchment flyleaves at the beginning + 2 unfoliated parchment flyleaves and 1 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end).
Collation: Indicated by catchwords.
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: Post 1600: blind-stamped and gold-tooled brown speckled 'Harleian' binding; marbled endleaves; red-speckled fore edge.
- 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 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. 137.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- England