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Harley MS 4855
- Record Id:
- 040-002050698
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002050698
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x000175
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 4855
- Title:
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Nova statuta, 1 Edward III to 6 Henry IV
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-171v: Nova statuta, from 1 Edward III (ff. 30-115) to 17 Richard II (ff. 116-171v); beginnning with a list of chapters (ff. 1-29); written in Law French with Latin headings.
The manuscript contains later additions:
f. [iii]recto (paper pastedown): Note for the binder on a piece of paper inscribed with the title to appear on the spine, with the annotation 'calf' designating the type of leather to be used for the binding.
ff. 171v-205v: Statutes for 20 Richard II, and 1-6 Henry IV; added probably c. 1404 (no decoration in this part).
Decoration:
Initials in red or blue with pen-flourishing in the other colour including foliate motifs (ff. 1r, 20r, 30r, 30v, 32v, etc.). Line-fillers in red and blue. Paraphs in red and/or blue. Some catchwords decorated with red pen-flourishing including human heads (e.g. ff. 123v, 131v, 139v, 147v, 155v, 163v). Some ascenders decorated with faces in blue ink (e.g. f. 163v).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002050698", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 4855: Nova statuta, 1 Edward III to 6 Henry IV" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002050698 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 4855 : Nova statuta, 1 Edward III to 6 Henry IV - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[4854]/040-002050698
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- French, Middle
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1388
- End Date:
- 1409
- Date Range:
- c 1393-c 1404
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 250 x 170 mm (text space: 180 x 115 mm).
Foliation: ff. 205 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end); 1 unfoliated paper pastedown on f. [iii]recto; 1 ruled unfoliated blank parchment leaf and 15 unruled blank parchment leaves after f. 29; 2 unruled blank parchment leaves after f. 115; 1 partly ruled blank parchment leaf after f. 178.
Collation: Mainly in quires of 8; indicated by catchwords and quire signatures. The first leaf of each quire provides the number of the quire in the following form: 'xi q[uaderna?] fol. P[rim]us'. The quires onto which 20 Richard II and 1-6 Henry IV have been added have the same numbering system as the rest of the manuscript, written in the same hand.
Script: Gothic cursive and Gothic.
Binding: Post-1600; brown mottled calf with gold fillets and blind tooling; marbled endpapers.
- Custodial History:
-
Origin:
England,
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:
- A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), p. 212 (no. 4855).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- England