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Harley MS 6280
- Record Id:
- 040-002052128
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002052128
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000899.0x00027b
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 6280
- Title:
- ‘Liber statutorum’ of St Davids Cathedral
- Scope & Content:
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ff. 1v–2r: Notes on the use of the manuscript for legal purposes in the early 19th century.
f. 3v: Ownership inscriptions.
ff. 4r–110v: ‘Liber Statutorum’. Includes copies of episcopal, royal, papal and related documents and grants.
f. 111r: Added notes on events in St Davids (18th century).
ff. 112r–114r: Added notes on contents (18th century).
Decoration:
Puzzle initial in blue with penwork decoration in red extending into the margin (f. 4r). Initials in blue with penwork decoration in red extending into the margins.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002052128", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 6280: ‘Liber statutorum’ of St Davids Cathedral" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002052128 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 6280 : ‘Liber statutorum’ of St Davids Cathedral - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[6284]/040-002052128
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1509
- End Date:
- 1529
- Date Range:
- 1509-1520s
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Letter of introduction required to view this manuscript
- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: parchment.
Condition: The manuscript is missing leaves between ff. 11 and 12, 85 and 86, and is badly damaged by damp and difficult to read in parts, but a late 17th- or early 18th-century transcript of its text is found in Harley MS 1249. This transcript was lent by Edward Harley to the bishop of St David's 1714–1729 to be used as evidence in a Court of Arches case (see letters bound in the manuscript, i.e. ff. 1*, 2*; Wright 1972).
Dimensions: 295 × 195 mm (written area 205 × 140 mm).
Foliation: ff. 114 (f. 3 is the original front flyleaf, ff. 1–2, 37, 56, 111–114 are inserted early modern paper leaves; + one unfoliated modern paper flyleaf at the beginning and 2 at the end).
Collation: Gatherings mostly of 8, with horizontal catchword in a cartouche at the centre of the lower margin of the last verso of gatherings.
Script: Gothic hybrid.
Binding: British Museum.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
St David’s Cathedral, Pembrokeshire. Harper (p. 201) suggests that the manuscript was compiled during the episcopate of Edward Vaughan (b. c.1450, d. 1522/3), bishop of St Davids 1509–1522.
Provenance:
Inscribed in 1588 by Thomas Huett, Richard Edwards and Thomas Lloyd (f. 3v).
Thomas Baker (b. 1656, d. 1740), nonjuring Church of England clergyman and antiquary: his inscription, ‘This Book belongs to the Church of St David, & shall be restor’d, when I am at liberty to do it’ (f. 37r).
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.
- Information About Copies:
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Select digital coverage available for this manuscript: see the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts, https://bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/.
- Publications:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, ed. by Robert Nares and others, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808–12), i, 630–34 (Harley MS 1249), iii, 352.
G.R.C. Davis, Medieval Cartularies of Great Britain and Ireland, ed. by Claire Breay, Julian Harrison, and David M. Smith, 2nd edn (London: British Library, 2010), no. 850.
Sally Harper, Music in Welsh Culture Before 1650 (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007), p. 201 n. 12.
A Catalogue of Manuscripts relating to Wales in the British Museum, ed. by Edward Owen, 4 vols (London: British Museum, 1900-1922), II (1903), pp. 231-48, 466-69.
Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts Preserved in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 60, 292, 465.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Baker, Thomas, scholar and antiquarian, 1656-1740
Cathedral church of St David, St Davids, Pembrokeshire, 6th century- - Related Material:
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Copies: Harley MS 1249; National Library of Wales, MS 1404 (Phillipps 21058); Cambridge, St John’s College, MS H. 12 (279).
- Related Archive Descriptions:
- Harley MS 1249