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Harley MS 5022

Record Id:

040-002050866

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002050866

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x00021d

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 5022

Title:

Statutes of England; a calendar

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r–6v: Calendar.

ff. 7r–35v: Capitulatio statutorum, listing the titles of the statutes in the collection.

ff. 37r–114v: Texts of the statutes, beginning with Magna Carta, in Latin and Anglo-Norman French (ends imperfectly).

Decoration:

Initials with penwork decoration in red and blue (ff. 1r–6v, 37r); paraphs alternating between red and blue. Running heads.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002050866

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 5022 : Statutes of England; a calendar

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[5022]/040-002050866

Container:

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

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Anglo-Norman
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1300

End Date:

1324

Date Range:

1st quarter of the 14th century

Era:

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User Conditions:

Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 165 × 110 mm.

Foliation: ff. 114 (+ 2 modern paper flyleaves at the beginning + at the end).

Script: Gothic cursive.

Binding: British Museum.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

Henry Gascoigne (mid 15th century), son of Sir William Gascoigne (d. 1422): inscribed, ‘Iste liber constat H Gascoigne filio Willelmi Fascoigno militi …’ (f. 1*r), with an obit for his father under 28 March (f. 2r).

John Hataway (early 18th century): purchased from him by John Grainger.

John Grainger (early 18th century; also owned Harley MS 5284/1): inscribed as having purchased from Hataway 17 November 1702 (f. 36v).

Humfrey Wanley (b. 1672, d. 1726), Old English scholar and librarian: inscribed in pencil, ‘Bought of me’ (f. 1*r).

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, ed. by Robert Nares and others, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808–12), iii, 241.

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).

Don C. Skemer, ‘Reading the Law: Statute Books and the Private Transmission of Legal Knowledge in Late Medieval England’, in Learning the Law: Teaching and the Transmission of English Law, 1150–1900, edited by Jonathan Bush and Alain A. Wijffels (London: Hambleton Press, 1999), p. 122.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Places:

England