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Harley MS 5326

Record Id:

040-002051172

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002051172

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x00034f

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 5326

Title:

Statutes of England

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 4r-25r: 'Nove ordinaciones' from the reign of Edward II.

ff. 26r-37v: 'Magna Carta'.

ff. 37v-43r: 'Carta de Foresta'.

ff. 43r-48v: 'Statuta de Merton'.

ff. 48v-61r: 'Statuta de Marlebrigges'.

ff. 61r-84r: 'Prima statuta Westmonasterii'.

ff. 84r-89v: 'Statuta de Gloucester'.

ff. 89v-90v: 'Explanaciones de Gloucester'.

ff. 90v-91v: 'Statuta Westmonasterii tercii'.

ff. 91v-136r: 'Statuta Westmonasterii secunda'.

ff. 136r-137r: 'Statuta de religiosis'.

ff. 137r-141r: 'Statuta de mercatoribus' [Acton Burnel].

ff. 141r-145v: 'Statuta scacarii'.

ff. 145v-146v: 'Districtiones scacarii'.

ff. 146v-147r: 'Statuta de quo Warranto'.

ff. 147r-147v: 'Statuta de Magna Assisa'.

ff. 147v-149r: 'Visus franciplegii'.

ff. 149r-150v: 'Statuta de Protectione'.

ff. 150v-154r: 'Statuta de Wynton'.

ff. 154v-155r: 'Statuta Westmonasterii Quarta' [1327].

ff. 155r-156v: 'Dies communes in banco'.

ff. 156v-157v: 'Modus calumpniandi essonia'.

ff. 157v-159r: 'Statuta super prohibiciones circumspecte agatis'.

ff. 159r-160r: 'Statutum de Berewyk'.

ff. 160r-160v: 'Modus faciendi homagium'.

ff. 160v-161v: 'Statutum de Vasto'.

ff. 161v-162v: 'Statutum de defensione juris'.

ff. 162v-163v: 'Statuta de custodia Maritagii'.

ff. 163v-164v: 'Assisa Panis'.

ff. 164v-165r: 'Districtio Sotagij'.

ff. 165r-167v: 'Statuta conjunctim feoffatis'.

ff. 167v-168v: 'Adnotacione ad Warranto'.

ff. 168v-169v: 'Statuta de Militibus'.

ff. 169v-170r: 'Statuta de Biggamia'.

ff. 170v-179r: 'Statuta Bastardie'.

The manuscript contains a later addition:

f. 1*recto: A title inscription: 'Novae Ordinationes Magna Carta etc'; written in the 17th century.

ff. 1r-3r: A list of contents and lists of chapters, which indicates the manuscript is missing a few items at the end, including Ralph de Hengham's Summa parva; written in the 14th century.

ff. 179r-180r: Model for an indenture, referring to 'W. de Gresham'; written in the 14th century.

f. 182r: Latin notes on English statutes, dated 1279-1289.

Decoration:

Large 'champ' initial in colours and gold with ivy leaves extending into the margins (f. 4r). Large initial in gold with blue pen-flourishing including a hybrid creature (f. 26r). Numerous smaller initials in blue with red pen-flourishing or in gold with blue pen-flourishing, including foliate motifs. Paraphs in blue.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002051172

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 5326 : Statutes of England

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[5328]/040-002051172

Container:

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

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

French, Middle
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1320

End Date:

1330

Date Range:

c 1325

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 110 x 70 mm (text space: 70 x 45 mm).

Foliation: ff. 1* + 182 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 1 unfoliated parchment flyleaf and 3 paper flyleaves at the end); f. 1* is a parchment leaf that originally served as a flyleaf; f. 182 is a former pastedown; 1 unfoliated unwritten parchment leaf after f. 3; 1 unfoliated parchment stub after ff. 1, 2, 177, 179

Collation: Mainly in quires of 8; each quire has been mounted separately onto a paper guard; catchwords.

Script: Gothic cursive.

Binding: British Museum in-house: remains of the previous binding (gold- and blind-tooled dark brown sprinkled leather) pasted on the inside covers; rebound in 1968.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

'Smyth', 15th or 16th century: their name 'Smyth e' inscribed with a flourish (a love knot?) on f. 181v .

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.

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. 260 (no. 5326).

Richard Thomson, An Historical Essay on the Magna Charta of King John: To Which Are Added, the Great Charter in Latin and English; the Charters of Liberties and Confirmations, Granted by Henry III, and Edward I; the Original Charter of the Forests; and Various Authentic Instruments Connected with Them: Explanatory Notes on Their Several Privileges; a Descriptive Account of the Principal Originals and Editions Extant, both in Print and Manuscript (London: London Printed for J. Major and R. Jennings, 1829), p. 440.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Places:

England