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Harley MS 4975
- Record Id:
- 040-002050819
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002050819
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x0001ee
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 4975
- Title:
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English statute book
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-130v: English statutes, including 'Summa Fet Asaver', 'Carta H. reg. de libertabus Anglie', 'Carta eiusdem de foresta', 'Sententia lata super cartas', 'Dictum de Kevill.', 'Provisiones de Merton', 'Statuta Marlebergie', 'Statuta Westmonasterii Prima', 'Statuta de Judaismo', 'Statuta de Scaccario', 'Statuta de justitiariis assignatis ad querelas audiendas', 'Statuta Gloucestrie', 'Statuta de Exonie', 'Statuta Religiosorum', 'Statuta Wincestrie', 'Statuta Wyntonie', 'Visus franci plegii', 'Modus de homagio et fide faciendi', 'Modus calumpniandi', 'Statuta Westmonasterii Secundi', 'Novi articuli de moneta', 'Statuta de mercatoribus', 'Summa Judicium Essoniorum', 'Assisa panis et cervisie', 'Dies communes in banco', 'Modus ad mensurandum terram', 'Summa cadit assisa', '?Summa v. sunt [Esson.]', '?Brra. Pl[…]itata', Placitata' 'Registrum de Cancellarii'; written in French with headings in Latin.
f. 131r: Table with chapters of the Statute of Westminster II (1285).
The manuscript contains several additions:
f. 131v: A line of ?Middle English: 'left luf t over go and ȝe lyketȝ'; written in the 13th century.
f. 131v: List of titles of dukes and kings of England and France in French; written in the 13th century.
f. 131v: A Latin poem: 'Dico care mane cras poteris surgere mane', occurring in a different form in Serlo of Wilton's Versus de Differenciis; written in the 13th century.
f. 132r: Various French and Latin inscriptions, including one featuring ?Middle English: 'En paris kirke Garh. S. [...] þe chirche ha[?þ]'; written in the 13th century.
f. 132r: Latin verses: 'Ter tria sunt septem steptem sex sex quoque trest sunt / Si recte numeris duo tres sunt milia quinque'.
f. 132v: Latin verses: 'Rustice quid queris, ut mecum versificeris / Rusticus es certe, dico mentiris aperte / Versificator tu est melior non solis ab ortu'; added in the 13th century.
f. 133r: Short memorandum about saint's feasts; added in the 13th century.
f. 133v (parchment pastedown): Fragment of a legal writ addressed to Thomas [?V]yncent, ending with the clause: 'hoc sub pena centum librarum nullatenus omittas'; written in the 16th century.
Decoration:
Large (3-line) blue initials with penwork decoration in red. Capitals highlighted in red. Paraphs alternating between blue and red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002050819", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 4975: English statute book" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002050819 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 4975 : English statute book - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[4975]/040-002050819
- 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:
- 1200
- End Date:
- 1299
- Date Range:
- 13th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 260 x 170 mm (text space: 200 x 120 mm).
Foliation: ff. 133 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 2 at the end); f . 47 is a torn fragment; f. 132 is a strip of parchment; 1 unfoliated paper pastedown on f. 133v.
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: British Museum in-house; gold-tooled brown speckled leather with the initials 'M. B.' (Museum Brittanicum) gold stamped on the upper cover.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
'In Ecclesia Sancti Petri [?] Stengate': inscribed with a note (f. 131v).
? Johannes Harletoun, unidentified owner: inscribed with his name: 'Johannes Harletoun mandate salutem ad Robertum Plodale' (f. 131v).
Robert Burscough (b. 1651, d. 1709), archdeacon of Barnstaple: acquired from him for the Harley library (see Diary, ed. by Wright and Wright (1966), I, p. 11 n. 6; Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 87).
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, inscribed as usual by their librarian Humfrey Wanley '17 Maij 1715' (f. 1r).
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 forms one of the foundation collections of the British Library.
- Publications:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), p. 235.
The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by Cyril E. Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), I: 1715-1723, p. 11 n. 6.
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. 87.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- England