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Harley MS 5156

Record Id:

040-002051000

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002051000

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x0002a3

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 5156

Title:

Collection of law cases and notes on law lectures

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-13v: Law cases in French and English; with on f. 12v the inscription: 'The Lawe off the Lord Resete in oure hartes Amen'.

f. 14r: 'Damasus papa in epistola ad Jeronimum i'.

ff. 15r-23v: Notes on lectures on Law by Reginald Corbell, written in French, dated to 1552, headed: 'Lectura Reginaldi Corbell in 40li tempore Anno R.R. Edwardi sexti. sexto'.

ff. 24r-35v: Notes on lectures on Law by James Dier, written in French; with reference to 'Weston' on f. 25r.

ff. 35v-38r: Notes on lectures on Law by 'Mr Morgan', written in French, dated to 1553, headed: 'Lectura Mr Morgan Anno 7 E.6. tempore Quadragesima'.

ff. 38v-40r: Notes on lectures on Law by Anthony Brown, written in French, dated to 1554, headed: 'Lectura Antonis Browne in 40li 1554'.

ff. 40v-41r: Notes on lectures on Law by Richard Weston, written in Latin and French, dated to 1554-1555, headed: 'Lectura Richardi [? Westo[n]y] .2. Marie Reg.'.

ff. 42v-43r: Law cases, written in French and English, dated to 1552.

f. 44v: Sayings (maxims) in Latin, Greek and English

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002051000

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 5156 : Collection of law cases and notes on law lectures

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[5156]/040-002051000

Container:

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

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English
French
Greek, Ancient
Latin

Scripts:

Greek
Latin

Start Date:

1547

End Date:

1560

Date Range:

c 1552-c 1555

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: Leaves of 290 x 210 mm, but mounted to fit a manuscript measuring 310 x 235 mm.

Foliation: ff. 44 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end); 1 unfoliated blank paper leaf between f. 2 and f. 3; 2 between f. 13 and f. 14; 6 between f. 14 and f. 15; 23 and f. 24; 9 unfoliated blank paper leaves between f. 41 and f. 42; 2 between f. 43 and f. 44; 1 unfoliated paper pastedown on f. [45]verso.

Collation: Quires and leaves have been mounted separately onto paper guards.

Script: Cursive.

Binding: British Museum in-house; brown half leather binding with the Harleian arms gold-stamped on the outside covers; re-bound in May 1973. According to the Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts (1808), III, p. 249, the manuscript was bound together with Harley MS 5155 in the Harleian Library.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

William Fletewood (b. ? 1535, d. 1594), of Middle Temple; Recorder of London 1571: owned the manuscript, according to the Catalogue of Harleian Manuscripts (1808), III, p. 249; his name ('Wilhelmi Fletewoode'; 'W. Fletewode'; 'quo ffletew.') and initials ('W. F.') inscribed on f. 44v (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 153.

Robert Fletewood, perhaps the person of the same name who served as clerk of the petty bag in 1559: his name inscribed on f. 44v: 'Robertus Fletewode' (not in Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)).

John Anstis the Elder (b. 1669, d. 1744), herald and antiquary: his name inscribed on f. 1r: ‘Mr Anstis, A. D. 1719’ (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), pp. 50-52).

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 ‘Mr Anstis, A.D. 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:

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. 50-52, 153.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Places:

England