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Harley MS 5233

Record Id:

040-002051077

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002051077

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x0002f0

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 5233

Title:

Nova Statuta

Scope & Content:

Contents:

The Nova Statuta (ff. 11r-338v), preceded by an added collection of legal documents including ordinances and oaths of several officials (ff. 1v-10v).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002051077

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 5233 : Nova Statuta

Contains:

Harley MS 5233, ff 1v-10v : Statutes, ordinances, and oaths
Harley MS 5233, ff 11r-339r : Nova Statuta

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Hierarchy:

032-002045828[5233]/040-002051077

Container:

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

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Anglo-Norman
English, Middle
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1436

End Date:

1466

Date Range:

1436-c 1461

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 225 x 160 mm (text space: 140 x 95 mm).

Foliation: ff. 1* + 340 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 19 unfoliated blank leaves after f. 10 + 30 blank parchment leaves after f. 339; ff. 1* and 340 are parchment former pastedowns; f. 1 is blank). Bifolium signatures. Quire marks in Roman numerals (on the verso of the last leaf of the quire).

Script: Gothic cursive.

Binding: Post-1600 brown mottled calf binding with gold fillets.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England (probably London).

Provenance:

Inscribed 'Iste liber constat Ric[ard]e Clerke' (ff. 1*v, 340r) and 'Clerke', (f. [2*r]), 2nd half of the 15th century.

Robert Burscough (b. 1650/51, d. 1709), Prebendary of Exeter in 1701, Archdeacon of Barnstaple in 1703, rector of Cheriton, bishop in 1705; sold by his widow on 17 May 1715 to Robert Harley, along with other manuscripts (see Wright 1972; Diary1966).

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 1715’ (f. 1r).

Edward Harley bequeathed the library to his widow, Henrietta, née Cavendish 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.

Administrative Context:

England (probably London).

Information About Copies:

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Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), no. 5233.

The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by Cyril Ernest Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), I: 1715-1723, p. 11 n. 6.

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. 87-88.

Rosemarie McGerr, Lancastrian Mirror for Princes: The Yale Law School New Statutes of England (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2011), pp. 21, 163, n. 21, 195.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Bentinck, Margaret Cavendish, duchess of Portland, née Harley, collector of art and natural history specimens and patron of arts and sciences, 11 Feb 1715-17 Jul 1785,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000115857160,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/2356861
Burscough, Robert, Church of England clergyman, 1650/51-1709
Harley, Edward, second earl of Oxford and Mortimer, book collector and patron of the arts, 2 Jun 1689-16 Jun 1741,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000108078249,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/160524259
Harley, Henrietta Cavendish, Countess of Oxford and Mortimer, née Holles, patron of architecture, 4 Feb 1694-9 Dec 1755,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000030125833,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/6045563
Harley, Robert, first Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, 5 Dec 1661-21 May 1724,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000083423906