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Harley MS 4737
- Record Id:
- 040-002050580
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002050580
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x0000ff
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 4737
- Title:
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Formulary for legal processes (Formularius Instrumentorum)
- Scope & Content:
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ff. 1r-56v: Formularius Instrumentorum; formulary for legal processes in four books (one of which is missing), beginning: 'De principio et forma instrumentorum'.
The manuscript contains a few additions:
f. 1r (lower margin): A practice alphabet; added in the later Middle Ages.
f. 1r (parchment pastedown in lower margin): An incomplete rubricated date for this manuscript: 'Anno domini incarnatione millesimo'; written in the same hand as the formulary.
f. 57r: A fragment from another manuscript, containing a faded text (possibly another legal work).
f. 57r: A title inscription for this manuscript: 'Formularius Instrumentorum'; added in the (?) 15th century.
f. 57v: A rubricated verse for determining the lengths of the months of the year: 'Junius, Aprilis, septemque, novemque tricenos / Plus uno reliqui sed febrius vicenos'; written in the same hand as the Formulary.
f. 57v (parchment pastedown): Harleian shelf-marks; added in the Harleian Library.
Decoration:
A human head drawn in red ink in the upper margin of f. 1r. Large decorated paraphs in red ink in the margins to divide sections. Small capitals highlighted in red. Rubrics in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002050580", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 4737: Formulary for legal processes (Formularius Instrumentorum)" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002050580 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 4737 : Formulary for legal processes (Formularius Instrumentorum) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[4736]/040-002050580
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1220
- End Date:
- 1280
- Date Range:
- c 1225-c 1275
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 210 x 130 mm (text space: 145 x 85 mm).
Foliation: ff. 57 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 2 at the end); 1 unfoliated parchment strip on f. 1r (lower margin) and 1 on f. 57v; f. 57 is a fragmentary strip of parchment.
Script: Gothic.
Binding: British Museum in-house; gold-tooled brown speckled leather with the initials 'M.B.' (Museum Brittanicum) gold-stamped on the outside cover.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
? England or Italy.
Provenance:
? 'Fr. Brok', (?) 15th century: their (?) name inscribed in the lower margin of f. 1r, following a practice alphabet.
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; acquired after the death of their librarian Humfrey Wanley (1672, d. 1726), but featuring an inscription in the latter's style at the top of f. 1r: 'Janu: 4 1728/9'.
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. 197.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- England
Italy