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Harley MS 5145
- Record Id:
- 040-002050989
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002050989
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x000298
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 5145
- Title:
- Year Books for the reigns of Henry IV, Henry V and Henry VI
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 2r-186r: The Year Books of 5 Henry V; 2 Henry IV; 3 Henry IV; 1 Henry V; 3 Henry IV; 9 Henry V; 11 Henry IV; 14 Henry IV; 19 Henry VI; written in Law French with Latin headings by various hands.
The manuscript contains a few additions:
f. 1r (parchment pastedown): A (?) table of contents; added in the 15th century.
f. 1r (parchment pastedown): 'Copuldyke anno r. r. Edwardi quarti vicesimo secundo'.
f. 1r (parchment pastedown): The inscription: 'Hen. 4'; added in the (?) 17th century.
f. 1r (parchment pastedown): A (?) table of contents; added in the 15th or 16th century.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002050989", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 5145: Year Books for the reigns of Henry IV, Henry V and Henry VI" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002050989 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 5145 : Year Books for the reigns of Henry IV, Henry V and Henry VI - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[5145]/040-002050989
- 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:
- 1450
- End Date:
- 1549
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 15th century-1st half of the 16th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 295-300 x 220 mm (text space: 215 x 145 mm).
Foliation: ff. 186 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end); 1 unfoliated paper pastedown on f. [iv]recto (printed table of contents); 4 unfoliated parchment pastedowns on f. 1r.
Collation: Each quire has been mounted separately onto a paper guard.
Script: Gothic.
Binding: British Museum in-house; brown half leather binding with the Harleian arms gold-stamped on the outside covers; re-bound in 1968.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
'Copuldyke', 1482-1483: his name inscribed on two parchment pastedowns on f. 1r: 'Copuldyke Anno r. r. Edwardi quarti vicesimo secundo'; and 'Copuldyke of Doverr' (not in Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)); perhaps William Copuldyke, who was Lieutenant of Dover Castle under Sir Edward Poynings and other Wardens (see Robertson, 'Churches in Romney Marsh' (1880), p. 419).
'Symond Dril[an]d', late 15th or early 16th century: his name inscribed twice on f. 1r, preceded by 'My bo[ok] (not in Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)).
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.
Scott Robertson, 'Churches in Romney Marsh', Archaeologica Cantiana, 13 (1880), 408-87 (p. 419).
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. 51.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- England