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Harley MS 4779

Record Id:

040-002050622

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002050622

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x000129

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 4779

Title:

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 13r-389r: A register of cases tried in the Court of Common Pleas, from 26 until 32 Elizabeth I; written in Law French.

The manuscript contains an addition:

ff. 12r-12v, 290r-290v: Fragments of a (?) 17th-century account book listing ships in the port of Yarmouth, including: 'Le Hawke', 'Le Susan', 'Le Fawken', 'Le Dragon de Alkmore' [Alkmaar, North Holland, The Netherlands], 'Le Goose de Alkmore', 'Le Greyhounde de Dorte [Dordrecht, South Holland, The Netherlands], 'Le Pleinnarte [? Pluinarte] de Slewshaven' [Sluis, Zeeland, The Netherlands], and 'Le Margaret de Yarmouthe'.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002050622

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 4779 : Register of cases in the Court of Common Pleas, 26-32 Elizabeth I

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[4778]/040-002050622

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

French

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1585

End Date:

1595

Date Range:

c 1590

Era:

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User Conditions:

Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper; parchment (ff. 12 and 390 only).

Dimensions: 440 x 280 mm (text space: 365 x 175 mm).

Foliation: ff. '12'-'390' (+ 3 unfoliated blank paper leaves at the beginning + 3 at the end); early modern foliation only, which runs from 12 to 390; ff. 12 and 390 are fragmentary parchment leaves from another manuscript that have been reused as flyleaves for this manuscript.

Collation: Indicated by catchwords.

Script: 16th-century Gothic cursive (Secretary).

Binding: British Museum in-house; brown half leather with the Harleian arms gold stamped on the outside covers; re-bound in 1967.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

John Holles (b. 1672, d. 1711): his armorial bookplate on f. 13r (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:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), p. 204.

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