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Harley MS 6691

Record Id:

040-002052543

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002052543

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000935.0x0000da

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 6691

Title:

Journal of the proceedings of the assizes held at Sarum, Exeter and throughout South-West England, 7-42 Edward III

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-70v: Journal of the proceedings of the assizes held at Sarum, Exeter and throughout South-West England, 7-42 Edward III. Written in Law French with headings in Latin in a 15th-century script.

The manuscript contains a later addition:

f. 1r (inner margin): A list of place names in English: '[…] Herling, Watton, Perrham, Taknahm, Holte, Romer, Walsingam […] Pownahm, Snetsham, Claye […] Acle'; added in the 17th century.

f. 70v (upside down): A list of payments to 'James Osborne', 'William Pawle', and 'Hickling', with the date 1594.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002052543

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 6691 : Journal of the proceedings of the assizes held at Sarum, Exeter and throughout South-West England, 7-42 Edward III

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[6699]/040-002052543

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:

1400

End Date:

1499

Date Range:

15th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 355 x 240 mm (text space: 290 x 175 mm).

Foliation: ff. 70 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the begininng + 2 at the end).

Script: Gothic.

Binding: Post-1600. Marbled paper binding over pasteboard.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

John Batteley (b. 1647, d. 1708), Church of England clergyman and antiquary: sold to Edward Harley with the rest of his collection through his nephew John Batteley on 5 November 1723 (Diary, ed. Wright and Wright (1966), II, p. 263 n. 1; Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 67); perhaps his pressmark '63' at the top of f. 1r.

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:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), p. 385.

The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by Cyril Ernest Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), II: 1723-1726, p. 263 n. 1.

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. 67.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Places:

England