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Harley MS 5213

Record Id:

040-002051057

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002051057

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x0002dc

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 5213

Title:

English writs and statutes

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-84v: Writs from the royal chancery ('Registrum Brevium cancellariae domini regis'); written in Latin.

ff. 85r-163v: English statutes ('Statuta vetera'); beginning imperfectly in the Statuta de Merton; and followed by other statutes, including the Statuta de Marleberge; Statuta Westmonasterii prima; Statuta Gloucestriae; Statuta Westmonasterii secunda; Statutum Westmonasterii tertium; Statuta Westmonasterii quarta [1327]; Statutum Exonie; Statutum Wyntonie; Statutum de Werewik. champart; Statutum de Wyndesor.; Statutum de religiosis; Statutum circumspecte agatis; Regia prohibicio; Statutum de scackario; Districiones de scackario; Statutum novum de scackario provisiones; statutum de presentibus vocatis ad warrantum; statutum de antiquo dominico corone Angliae; Statutum de magna assisa injungenda; Statutum de moneta; Statutum novum de moneta; Statutum de quo warranto; Statutum novum de quo warranto; Statutum de juratoribus; Statutum de justicia assignata; Statutum de composicione mensurarum; Statutum de assisa panis; Statutum de assisa cervisie; Statutum de lucro pistoris; Statutum de judicio pilloris; Statutum de numero rerum venalium; Statutum de gaveletto in London; Statutum de militibus; Statutum de armis; Statutum de mercatoribus; Statutum de nova custuma; Statutum de retonsura monete; Statutum de vasto; Statutum Wallie'; written in Latin and French.

ff. 164r-250r: Instructional treatises on law, including the Summa judicium Essonorum, Summa bastardie; Ordo exceptionum; Modus componendi brevia; Summa que vocatur natura brevium; Exceptiones contra brevia; Summa que vocatur proprietates narracionum; Summa que vocatur cadit assisa; Summa que vocatur ffait asaver [fet asavoir]; Summa que vocatur Parvum Hengham; Summa que vocatur Magnum Hengham; Summa que vocatur Curia Baron.

ff. 250r-253v: Summa de eodem vocatur Curia Baron rymee; written in French (? Anglo-Norman) verse.

ff. 254r-257r: Index capitulorum statutorum.

An unknown (?) 15th-century owner: their ownership inscription on f. 257v: 'Iste liber constabat [? Magistro] Guile[lmo] […]'.

The manuscript contains an addition:

f. 1*verso: Table of contents; added in the 17th century.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002051057

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 5213 : English writs and statutes

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[5213]/040-002051057

Container:

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

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Anglo-Norman
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1300

End Date:

1399

Date Range:

14th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment; paper (f. 1* only).

Dimensions: 200 x 125 mm (text space: 150 x 850 mm).

Foliation: ff. 1* + 257 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 6 at the end); ff. [iv] and 1*; and ff. [258] and [259] are folded sheets of paper that originally were part of a separate document that has been reused to create flyleaves for this manuscript; 1 unfoliated parchment stub between f. 107 and f. 108; 1 unfoliated paper pastedown on f. [260]verso (notes of examination).

Collation: Each quire has been mounted separately onto a paper guard.

Script: Gothic.

Binding: British Museum in-house; brown half leather with the Harleian arms gold stamped on the outside covers. Red speckled fore edges.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

Robert Paynell, son of Henry Paynell of Belaugh, Norfolk, admitted to Gray's Inn in 1619: sold through Wilcox, a bookseller in Little Britain, to the Harleys in November 1721 (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 271).

'Wilcox, Bookseller in Little Britain' [probably J. Wilcox the bookseller next door to whom Benjamin Franklin lived in Little Britain c. 1725 and from whom he borrowed books]: purchased for the Harleian Library on 18 Nocember 1721, according to the diary of Humfrey Wanley (see Diary, ed. by Wright and Wright (1966), I, p. 123; Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 354).

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 ‘18 Novembris 1721' (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, p. 252.

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. 271, 354.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Places:

England