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Harley MS 4835
- Record Id:
- 040-002050678
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002050678
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x000161
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 4835
- Title:
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Cartulary of Clare Friary
- Scope & Content:
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f. 1*r: Label noting places in the cartulary.
ff. 1r–59v: Cartulary of private deeds relating to Clare, arranged topographically, with a copy of one royal charter, 1364, at the beginning (ff. 58–59 should follow f. 6).
f. 60r: Added leaf (16th century) with a note on the ground belonging to the friars in Clare and a memorandum.giving reports of Sir Thomas Welde on his memory of the friars’ lands.
ff. 61r–65v: List of place names within nearby regions.
ff. 66v–67r: Schematic map of the lands of the friars (facsimile translation by Harper-Bill, pp. 114–115).
ff. 68r: List of priests for the celebration of votive masses.
f. 68v: Memorandum of grants.
f. 69v: Notes on Westminster; forumla for letters of appointment of an attorney for debt collection.
Decoration:
New documents open with enlarged initials, some with simple black penwork decoration. Entries lettered serially throughout in the margin.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002050678", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 4835: Cartulary of Clare Friary" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002050678 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 4835 : Cartulary of Clare Friary - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[4834]/040-002050678
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Paper codex
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1375
- End Date:
- 1399
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 14th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper, with many pages showing a watermark of a bow and arrow.
Dimensions: 280 × 215 mm.
Foliation: ff. 69 (+ 2 unfoliated leaves before f. 1 + numerous unfoliated blank leaves after f. 60 + 2 modern flyleaves at the beginning and end). Early modern foliation, ‘1’–‘59’ (ending with f. 59).
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: Post-1600: leather with blind tooling. Rebacked.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: House of Augustinian friars, Clare, Suffolk.
Provenance:
Giles Barnardistone of Clare: owned in 1638, as indicated through the transcription by Simonds d’Ewes (Wright, p. 64).
Edmund Johnston of Clare (17th–18th century): owned, according to Tanner.
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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Thomas Tanner, Notitia Monastica, ed. by John Tanner and James Nasmith, 2nd edn (Cambridge: University Press, 1787).
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, 209.
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. 64.
Christopher Harper-Bill, The Cartulary of the Augustinian Friars of Clare, Suffolk Records Society, Suffolk Charters, 11 (Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 1991) [calendar of contents].
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. 261.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Clare Austin Friary, Suffolk, ?1249-1538
- Related Material:
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Copies: Add. MS 8188, ff. 55–84, 19th century; Harley MS 294, f. 174, 1638; Harley MS 639, ff. 94–97.