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Harley MS 5153
- Record Id:
- 040-002050997
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002050997
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x0002a0
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 5153
- Title:
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Book of law cases
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
f. 1v: Alphabetical list of legal terms in English.
ff. 2r-168r: Book illustrating different types of law cases, written in Law French and organised alphabetically: beginning with 'Accomptt' and ending with 'Visne'.
f. 170v: Lecture on law by Sir Robert Brooke [Broke] (d. 1558), judge and legal writer, dated 1540/41.
ff. 2r, 169v, 171v, 172r, 172v, 173v, 174v: Notes on law and law cases in this manuscript.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002050997", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 5153: Book of law cases" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002050997 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 5153 : Book of law cases - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[5153]/040-002050997
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- French
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1590
- End Date:
- 1599
- Date Range:
- 1590s
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 315 x 215 mm.
Foliation: ff. 174 ( + 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 2 at the end); 1 unfoliated blank paper leaf after ff. 1, 5, 6, 87, 89, 119, 139, 146; 2 after ff. 2, 93; 9 after f. 169 (ff. [169a]-[169i]); 1 unfoliated paper stub after f. [169d]; f. 162 is a paper strip pasted onto a blank paper leaf.
Script: 16th-century script.
Binding: British Museum in-house; marbled paper over pasteboard.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
? John Borlase (b. c. 1527, d. 1593), of Little Marlow, Buckinghamshire, Justice of Peace (1573) and Sheriff (1567) of Buckinghamshire: his name twice inscribed in red by William Fletewood (see below) on f. 1r: 'Mr John Burlase of litell Marlow in Com. Buc. [Little Marlow, Buckinghamshire] Armiger'; perhaps referring to his previous ownership (not recorded in Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)).
William Fletewood (b. ? 1535, d. 1594) of Middle Temple, Recorder of London 1571, owned the manuscript: his name inscriptions in red on f. 1r: 'ffletewoode' [4x]; also in brown ink: 'William ffletewoode' [3x]; and featuring three of his ownership inscriptions in black ink: 'ffletewooddi est liber hic / librantes omnia lant. / Templo leges equa qui colit in medio'; 'Huic quicumque libro dominabere post mea ffata / ffletewooddo eternum dicito queso vale'; and 'Ceste livre appartient a moy / Gulihelmus ffletewoode'; followed by further inscriptions of his Latinised name in brown ink: 'Guilielmus Fletwoddus' and 'Gulielmus Fletwoddus est Dominus meus', alongside a Latin saying in red: 'Quo fata trahunt / quod William ffletewoode' (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 153).
John Anstis the elder (b. 1669, d. 1744), herald and antiquary, gift to Robert Harley (prior to 1724) together with other manuscripts: according to an inscription by Humfrey Wanley, Keeper of the Harleian Library, on f. 2r: 'Mr Anstis A.D. 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.
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), pp. 51, 153.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Broke, Robert, judge, legal writer, and Speaker in the House of Commons, d 1558,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000447864316 - Places:
- England