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Harley MS 4505
- Record Id:
- 040-002050343
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002050343
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x000012
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 4505
- Title:
- Collection of Precedents in the Court of the Queen's Bench, from the 12th to the 37th years of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-51v: Collection of Precedents in the Court of the Queen's Bench, from the 12th to the 37th years of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I [1569-1595]; written in French with headings in Latin.
The manuscript contains a few additions:
ff. 52r-54v: English commentaries on biblical texts [bound upside down]: dated 27 February 1601, 'Mr Carter of Pouncknoll' [Puncknowle, West Dorset], beginning (f. 54v): 'Psalme .84. the 6. first verses'.
f. 55v: A Law case in English, beginning: 'The case was this my Lady ffynch amongest'; dated to 39 Elizabeth [1596-1597].
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002050343", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 4505: Collection of Precedents in the Court of the Queen's Bench, from the 12th to the 37th years of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002050343 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 4505 : Collection of Precedents in the Court of the Queen's Bench, from the 12th to the 37th years of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[4499]/040-002050343
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
French
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1569
- End Date:
- 1595
- Date Range:
- 1569-1595
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 290 x 195 mm (text space: 260-265 x 125-130 mm).
Foliation: ff. 1* + 55 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning); 2 unfoliated blank paper leaves after f. 1*; 6 between f. 35 and f. 36; numerous leaves between f. 51 and f. 52; and 1 between f. 54 and f. 55.
Script: 16th-century script.
Binding: British Museum in-house; gold-tooled brown speckled leather with the initials 'M.B.' (Museum Brittanicum) gold-stamped on the outside covers; the manuscript has been bound together with Harley MS 4506.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
John Holles (b. 1672, d. 1711), 4th Earl of Clare 1698; Duke of Newcastle-on-Tyne 1694; father of Lady Henrietta Cavendish Holles, wife (1713) of Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford: his armorial bookplate on f. 1*verso (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 193).
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, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), p. 165.
Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), p. 193.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- England