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Harley MS 5142
- Record Id:
- 040-002050986
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002050986
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x000295
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 5142
- Title:
- Law reports from the reigns of Henry VI and Elizabeth I
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-186v: Reports of selected cases of various dates from 18 Henry VI to 20 Elizabeth I; written at various periods of time in the 16th century, in Law French, Latin and English.
The manuscript contains a few later additions:
f. 1*recto: A single heading: 'Termino sancti michaelis anno domini 1589'.
f. 1*verso: A note on a payment referring to William Garrett and John Hubert, dated to 33 Elizabeth I.
f. 2*recto: 'Heu vivunt homines tanquam mors nulla sequatur: Aut velut infernus fabula vana foret'; written in the 16th century.
f. 187v: A list of (?) tax payments, including 'heath ground'.
f. 188v: An inscription with a price reference; added in the (?) 16th or 17th century.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002050986", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 5142: Law reports from the reigns of Henry VI and Elizabeth I" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002050986 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 5142 : Law reports from the reigns of Henry VI and Elizabeth I - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[5142]/040-002050986
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
French
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1500
- End Date:
- 1599
- Date Range:
- 16th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 295 x 200 mm.
Foliation: ff. 1*-2* + 188 (+ 2 unfoliated blank paper flyleaves at the beginning + 2 at the end); ff. 1*-2* are paper leaves; 12 unfoliated blank paper leaves between f. 2* and f. 1; 5 between f. 150 and f. 151; and between f. 186 and f. 187; 1 unfoliated paper pastedown on the inside cover (printed description of contents).
Collation: Indicated by catchwords.
Script: 16th-century script.
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:
John Anstis the elder (b. 1669, d. 1744), herald and antiquary, gift to Robert Harley together with other manuscripts in 1719 (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 51).
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 1719' (f. 1*recto).
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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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), p. 249.
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. 153.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- England