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Harley MS 4714
- Record Id:
- 040-002050557
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002050557
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x0000e8
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 4714
- Title:
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Cartulary of Biddlesden Abbey
- Scope & Content:
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General cartulary, arranged in sections with charters individually numbered in each, including royal and episcopal charters.
f. 1*r: Fragment of an effaced indenture, 1620.
f. 1r–6v: Foundation charters.
ff. 7r–352v: Sections arranged topographically.
ff. 353r–363r: Three 16th-century additions.
Some items calendared in the Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts (ii, pp. 194–95).
Decoration:
Large opening initial with the crest of the abbey (f. 1r). Red, blue and green initials with penwork decoration in alternating colours (incomplete from f. 101r); bold titles in black; running heads and charter numbers in red (incomplete from f. 97v).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002050557", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 4714: Cartulary of Biddlesden Abbey" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002050557 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 4714 : Cartulary of Biddlesden Abbey - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[4713]/040-002050557
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1500
- End Date:
- 1540
- Date Range:
- Early 16th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: parchment.
Dimensions: 395 × 290 mm.
Foliation: ff. 363 (+ 1 modern paper flyleaf at the beginning and end).
Script: Gothic.
Binding: British Museum, December 1961.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Cistercian abbey of St Mary, Biddlesden, Buckinghamshire.
Provenance:
George Villiers, second duke of Buckingham (b. 1628, d. 1687), politician and wit: owned in 1640, according to Dugdale.
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), ii, 194–95.
William Dugdale, Monasticon Anglicanum, ed. by John Caley, Henry Ellis, and Buckeley Bandinel, 6 in 8 vols (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1817–30), v, 365(y).
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. 338.
Diana Eleanor Greenway, Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae, 1066–1300: Lincoln (London: Athlone Press, 1977), pp. 80, 156.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. 54.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Cistercian abbey of St Mary, Biddlesden, 1147-1538