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Harley MS 5159
- Record Id:
- 040-002051003
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002051003
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x0002a6
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 5159
- Title:
- Year books of King Henry VI
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-279v: Yearbooks of King Henry VI, recording pleas held during the 3rd, 4th, 10th, 11th, 13th, 15th, 18th, 19th, 20th and 35th years of his reign (1424-1426, 1431-1432, 1435-1437, 1440-1442, 1456-1457). Written in Law French by ‘T. Mull[e]’.
The manuscript contains a few later additions:
f. 1*recto: A verse: ‘Pulvere pertubans turbatus mamore scribit’; added in the 16th century.
f. 1*verso: Table of contents, beginning: ‘Plees tenuz en tempore le Roy H. le vj.’; added in the 16th century.
Decoration:
Marginal drawing of a flower (f. 133v); human figure with two swords in brown ink (f. 160r)
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002051003", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 5159: Year books of King Henry VI" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002051003 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 5159 : Year books of King Henry VI - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[5159]/040-002051003
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- French, Middle
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1424
- End Date:
- 1457
- Date Range:
- 1424-1457
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper; parchment (f. 1*).
Dimensions: 415 x 290 mm (text space: 260 x 145 mm).
Foliation: ff. 1* + 279 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end); f. 1* is a parchment leaf; 1 unfoliated blank parchment leaf after f. 1*; 1 unfoliated blank paper leaf between f. 88 and f. 89; 4 b. 135 and 136; 1 unfoliated blank paper leaf between f. 136 and f. 137; 2 unfoliated blank paper leaves between f. 199 and f. 200.
Script: 15th-century script.
Binding: British Museum in-house: gold-tooled half leather brown binding with the Harleian arms gold-stamped on the outside covers; marbled endleaves.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
‘T. Mull[e]’, wrote the manuscript: his signature on f. 47v: ‘quod T. Mulle’; f. 74r: ‘quod Mulle’; f. 88v: ‘quod T. Mull’; f. 157r: ‘quod Mulle T.’; f. 233r: ‘‘quod T Mulle’; Perhaps Thomas Mull the younger (b. 1400, d. 1460) of Harescombe, Gloucestershire; see Turpines Story, ed. by Shepherd (2004), p. xxiii fn. 40.
John Anstis the elder (b. 1669, d. 1744), herald and antiquary, owned in 1719: acquired from him for the Harleian Library in that year according to an inscription on f. 1*recto (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 by Humfrey Wanley, Keeper of the Harleian Library, on f. 1*recto: ‘Mr Anstis, 1719’.
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. 51.
Turpines Story; A Middle English Translation of the Pseduo-Turpin Chronicle, ed. by Stephen H. A. Shepherd, Early English Text Society, Original Series, 322 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), p. xxiii fn. 40.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)