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Harley MS 5144
- Record Id:
- 040-002050988
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002050988
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x000297
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 5144
- Title:
- Year Book for the reigns of Henry IV and Henry V
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-254r: Year Book, containing the Term reports in Law French for the reigns of King Henry IV (years 2, 3, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12 and 14) and King Henry V (years 9, 2 and 1).
The manuscript contains a few later additions from the late 15th or early 16th century:
f. 1*verso: Medical notes on 'Strangure' and 'fluxus ventris'.
f. 1*verso: A macaronic (English-Latin) poem, beginning: 'Herk Gelyott come nere / To the is gevyn a grete Charge here' and ending 'Take hede to the sowe / While he is a welpyng'.
f. 255v: Medical recipes in English, beginning: 'take hony and salt and boylle to geder till hit be thykke'.
f. 255v: A list of contents in Latin, with a header in French: 'En cest lyvre est contenus'.
f. 255v: An inscription: 'Bedwelly M.'.
f. 255v: Sayings in Latin, beginning: 'novissima nostra sunt mors iudicium gehenna et gloria'.
f. 255v: A prayer in English: 'O swete Jhesu thy passion crose nayles [? deth] spere whypp crown teers woundes rede swhete water bloode and payn be socour to my soule in the tyme at latter ende of my deth amen'.
f. 255v: Sayings in Latin, including: 'Non est quo possit melius caro viua domari / Mortua qualis erit, quod semper premeditari'.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002050988", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 5144: Year Book for the reigns of Henry IV and Henry V" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002050988 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 5144 : Year Book for the reigns of Henry IV and Henry V - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[5144]/040-002050988
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
English, Middle
French, Middle
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1450
- End Date:
- 1524
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 15th century-1st quarter of the 16th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: paper; parchment (ff. 1*, [1*a], [1*b], [254a], [254b]).
Dimensions: 300 x 215 mm (text space: 245 x 140 mm).
Foliation: ff. 1* + 255 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 2 at the end); 2 unfoliated blank paper leaves between f. 30 and f. 31; and f. 176 and f. 177; 1 between f. 202 and f. 203; and f. 226 and f. 227; 1 unfoliated paper pastedown on the inside of the upper cover (printed list of contents).
Script: Gothic.
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:
'Walter Atwell', late 15th century or early 16th century: prayers to Christ and the Virgin Mary with his name inscribed in English and reverse ('Lewta Retaw - Jhesus mercy lady help'), and in Latin ('Walterus Atwell cuius anime propitietur deus Amen ihesus') on f. 255v (not in Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)); previously unnoticed, but most likely Walter Atwell of Gray's Inn, who compiled another volume of legal materials, now at Cambridge University Library, featuring his name with the year 1516 (see Thorne, Essays in English Legal History (1985), p. 151).
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. 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 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.
Samuel E. Thorne, Essays in English Legal History (London: The Hambledon Press, 1985), p. 151
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- England