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Harley MS 5430

Record Id:

040-002051276

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002051276

MDARK:

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LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 5430

Title:

English statutes

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 3*r-7*r: A table of contents for the manuscript.

ff. 1r-4v: Magna Carta.

ff. 4v-6r: The Charter of the Forest (1217).

ff. 6r-12v: The Statute of Malborough (1267).

ff. 12v-14r: The Statute of Merton (1236).

ff. 14r-17r: The Statute of Gloucester (1278).

ff. 17r-28r: The Statute of Westminster I (1275).

ff. 28r-50r: The Statute of Westminster II (1285).

ff. 50r-50v: The Statute of Westminster III (1290).

ff. 50v-55r: The Statute of Westminster IV (1327).

ff. 55r-57r: The Statute of Winchester (1285).

ff. 57r-58v: The Statute of Merchants (1285).

ff. 58v-59r: The Statutes of Mortmain [Statute de Viris Religiosis] (1279, 1290).

ff. 59r-62r: The Statute of Westminster V.

f. 62r: The Statute De Anno et Die.

ff. 62r-62v: The Statute De Quo Waranto Vetito.

ff. 62v-63r: The Statute De Quo Waranto Novo (1290).

ff. 63r-63v: The Statute De Conspiratoribus.

f. 63v: The Statute De Maintenours.

ff. 63v-65r: The Statute De Scaccario.

ff. 66r-66v: The Statute Ne Quis Ponatur in Assisis.

ff. 66v-67v: The Statute De Presentibus Vocatis ad Warantum.

ff. 67v-68r: The Statute De Bigamis.

ff. 68r-68v: The Statute of Circumspecte Agatis (1285).

ff. 68v-69r: The Statute De Prohibicionibus.

ff. 69r-70r: The Statute of (?) ‘W. le Boteler’.

ff. 70r-100v: Diversio Cartarum: De simplibius Cartis - Visus Franci Plegii.

The manuscript contains a few later additions:

f. 1*verso: A Middle English poem (previously unidentified): ‘fferre from thy ffrendys welde the / Wreth not thy Neybour next the / In a good Corn Cuntre dresse the / And than rok down Robyn and rest the’ [also in Lansdowne MS 762]; added in the 15th century. f. 1*verso: A Middle English poem (previously unidentified): ‘To thy ffrende thou lovest most / Telle not all what thou wost / ffor all maner happes / ffor whan thy ffrende is thy ffoo / he wyll tell it other moo / bewar of after clappes’ [also in Lansdowne MS 762]; added in the 15th century.

ff. 1*verso-2*recto: Legal instruction in Middle English, headed ‘Iuramentum’; added in the 15th century.

Decoration:

Large blue initials with red penwork decoration. Blue and red paraphs.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002051276

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 5430 : English statutes

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[5432]/040-002051276

Container:

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

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English, Middle
French, Middle

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1300

End Date:

1399

Date Range:

14th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 225 x 160 mm.

Foliation: ff. 1*-7* + 100 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 unfoliated parchment flyleaves and 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end); 2 unfoliated parchment leaves between f. 2* and f. 3* (f. [2a*] and f. [2b*]); and 2 between f. 7* and f. 1; 1 unfoliated parchment stub between f. [2a*] and f. [2b*]); 1 unfoliated paper pastedown on f. [105]verso (note of examination); each quire has been mounted onto a paper guard.

Script: Gothic.

Binding: British Museum in-house; re-bound in 1972.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

Thomas Warner, owned in the (?) 16th century: donated the manuscript to William Warner according to an inscription on f. 100v: ‘Thomas Warner me debet Willelmo Warner’ (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 348).

William Warner, owned in the (?) 16th century: received the manuscript from Thomas Warner according to an inscription on f. 100v (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 348).

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. 457.

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. 267.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Places:

England