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Harley MS 5240
- Record Id:
- 040-002051084
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002051084
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x0002f7
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 5240
- Title:
- A Latin formulary with indentures on various legal subjects for persons in Oxfordshire
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-66v, 68r-100v: A formulary with indentures on various legal subjects for persons in Oxfordshire. The formulary is mostly written in Latin, but various indentures in English were added at the end.
The manuscript contains several additions:
ff. 1*verso-3*recto: Practice indentures and memoranda, including the names of ‘Johannes Lukenor’; ‘W. Barbar’; and ‘Thomas Kenton’; a complete indenture on f. 2*verso for a ‘John Hard[a]m’ of Chichester.
ff. 67r-67v: A letter in English, addressed ‘To my very loving nephew’; by ‘youre Aunte Elizabeth Pottes’, beginning: ‘Good Nephewe I commend me to you and to my neece your wife: I thank you for your vensonne, and take it very kindelye that you will come in so kinde fore to dyne with us’; added in the 16th century.
f. 101r: A Latin poem, known as Carta Redempcionis humane, beginning: 'Hec quicumque fiant presentes atque futuri / Et memores fiant nis isensus sint sibi duri'; added in the (?) 15th century.
ff. 102r-104v: Scribbles, including names such as ‘Thomas’ and ‘Leonard’; Latin and English memoranda, including the names ‘Johannis Roos’ and ‘Thomas Ward’.
Decoration:
1 large blue initial with red penwork decoration (f. 1r). The head of a woman wearing a coif and beret in red pencil; added in the 16th century.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002051084 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 5240 : A Latin formulary with indentures on various legal subjects for persons in Oxfordshire - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[5240]/040-002051084
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1500
- End Date:
- 1599
- Date Range:
- 16th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper and parchment.
Dimensions: 210 x 140 mm.
Foliation: ff. 1*-2* + 104 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves + 1 unfoliated parchment flyleaf at the beginning + 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end); ff. 1* and 2* are parchment leaves; 1 unfoliated parchment stub between f. 2* and f. 1; f. 67 is a folder paper letter; 2 paper stubs and 1 parchment stub between f. 82 and f. 83; 2 paper stubs and 4 parchment stubs between f. 98 and f. 99; 1 unfoliated blank parchment leaf between f. 100 and f. 101.
Script: Gothic.
Binding: British Museum in-house; re-bound in 1967.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Nicholas Roscarrock (b. ? 1549, d. ? 1634), lived at Naworth Castle in the household of Lord William Howard from 1607: his name inscribed on f. 1r (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 289).
? ‘Thomas Barrett’, owned in the 16th century: his name inscribed on f. 103r (not in Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)).
? ‘J. Botterell’, owned in the 16th century: his name inscribed on f. 103r: ‘per me J Botterell’ 103r (not in Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)).
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 ‘5 die Novembris, A. D. 1723’ (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:
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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. 257.
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. 454.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- England