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Harley MS 4748
- Record Id:
- 040-002050591
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002050591
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x00010a
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 4748
- Title:
- Index of the ‘Red Book’ of the Barons Segrave
- Scope & Content:
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Index of ‘the evidences copied in the boke cleped the Redeboke of þe lordshipe of Segrave’ (f. 3r).
ff. 1*v: Fragment of a list of churches.
ff. 1r–2r: List of holdings with summaries of how they are held by the Baron Segrave.
f. 3r: Preface explaining the methodology, in English.
ff. 3r–7r: Warwickshire.
ff. 7r–15r: Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Derbyshire, Lincolnshire, Isle of Ely, Buckinghamshire.
f. 31v: Charter concerning Huntingdon, followed by a summary table of names with associated liberties.
f. 32r–v: Partial table of localities.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002050591", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 4748: Index of the ‘Red Book’ of the Barons Segrave" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002050591 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 4748 : Index of the ‘Red Book’ of the Barons Segrave - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[4747]/040-002050591
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Paper codex
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1460
- End Date:
- 1499
- Date Range:
- Late 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment (f. 1*); paper (ff. 1–32).
Dimensions: 300 × 210 mm.
Foliation: ff. 32 (+ 4 modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and end).
Script: Gothic.
Binding: British Museum.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Barons Segrave, Seagrave, Leicestershire.
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 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, 198.
John Nichols, The History and Antiquities of the County of Leicester, 4 vols (London: Nichols, 1795–1811), ii, pt 1, App. xiii, 108–20.
Samantha Letters, ‘The History of the Seagrave Family from c.1160 to 1295, with an Edition of the Calendar of the Seagrave Cartulary’ (unpublished Ph.D. thesis, King’s College London, 1997).
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. 1319.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)