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Harley MS 4766
- Record Id:
- 040-002050609
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002050609
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x00011c
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 4766
- Title:
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Rental of Plympton Priory
- Scope & Content:
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Rental, arranged topographically (place names differ slightly in the opening list and the headings).
f. 1v: Charter of Richard I, followed by a list of contents.
f. 1*v: Added notes (15th century).
f. 2r: Added transcription of f. 1v (18th century).
ff. 3r–7v: ‘Nyweton Kentille’/‘Newton sancti Cirici’.
ff. 8r–11v: ‘Dene Priour’.
ff. 12r–13r: ‘Sheaghe’/‘Scheagh’.
ff. 13v–14r: ‘Priorton’.
ff. 14v–15r: ‘Trysthelton’/‘Thrysthelton’.
f. 15v–16v: ‘Waterfall’.
ff. 16v–17v: ‘Tamerton’.
f. 18r–v: ‘Marytnystowe’/‘Marytnstow’.
ff. 19r–24v: ‘Grangia’/‘Grangie’.
Decoration:
Headings with decorated ascenders in the first line at the beginning of each section; space for opening initials, unexecuted.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002050609", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 4766: Rental of Plympton Priory" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002050609 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 4766 : Rental of Plympton Priory - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[4765]/040-002050609
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1408
- End Date:
- 1408
- Date Range:
- 1408
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Dimensions: 335 × 250 mm.
Foliation: ff. 24 (+ 1* + 3 modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and end).
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: British Museum, rebound March 1967.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Augustinian priory of St Peter, Plympton, Devon; written from surveys in 1407–08, according to the opening headings to each section.
Provenance:
Robert Burscough (b. 1650/51, d. 1709), Church of England clergyman: inscribed by Humfrey Wanley with the date purchased from him, 17 May 1715 (ff. 1r, 3r; cf. Diary, i, 11).
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, 202.
The Diary of Humfrey Wanley, 1715–1726, ed. by Cyril Ernest Wright and Ruth C. Wright (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), i, 11.
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. 88.
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. 781.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Augustinian priory of St Peter, Plympton, Devon, 1121-1539
Burscough, Robert, Church of England clergyman, 1650/51-1709