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Harley MS 5408
- Record Id:
- 040-002051254
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002051254
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x0003a1
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 5408
- Title:
- An abridgement of law reports
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1v-235r: An abridgement of law reports; featuring a note in English on f. 158r: ‘After 4 leaves a day this book is r[...] on in 10 dayes’
ff. 236v-238v: Memoranda in English concerning legal matters, dated to the 14th year of Henry VIII (1522-1523).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002051254", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 5408: An abridgement of law reports" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002051254 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 5408 : An abridgement of law reports - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[5410]/040-002051254
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English.
French
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1500
- End Date:
- 1549
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 16th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 220 x 170 mm.
Foliation: ff. 1* + 238 (+ 3 unfoliated blank paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end); 6 unfoliated blank paper leaves between f. 1* and f. 1; 22 between f. 146 and f. 147; 4 between f. 150 and f. 151; 9 between f. 153 and f. 154; 3 between f. 157 and f. 158; 1 between f. 199 and f. 200; and numerous between f. 235 and f. 236.
Script: 16th-century script.
Binding: British Museum in-house.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Henry Townshend, owned in 1625: his ownership inscription on f. 1*recto: ‘Henry Townshend huius libri possessor 1625’ (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 330).
John Batteley (b. 1647, d. 1708), Church of England clergyman and antiquary: purchased from him by Edward Harley on 5 November 1723 through his newphew, John Batteley (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), pp. 66-68).
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. 1*recto).
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. 266.
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. 457.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- England