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Harley MS 7505
- Record Id:
- 040-002053360
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002053360
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000984.0x00015b
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 7505
- Title:
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Humfrey Wanley, Facsimile copies of charters and inscriptions
- Scope & Content:
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f. 1v: Alphabet by Wanley, imitating two biblical fragments (which originally followed the page, according to his note, but are no longer present).
f. 2r–v: Charters copied by Wanley in facsimile of the originals.
ff. 3r–8v: Inventory of goods (including some books), 1464, of the Collegiate Church of Warwick, inscribed: ‘This following Indenture I copied from the Autograph (being a scrol of Parchment above four Yards long, & above ¼ of a Yard broad, May the 21. 1691.) being now in the Custody of Mr Fish of Warwick’ (James Fish the Elder, d. 1702, parish clerk of St Mary’s Warwick; cf. Bernard, ii, no. 6705).
f. 9r: Copies of an inscription at York Minster and two at the church in Brixworth.
f. 9*r: Copies of charters, pasted down on paper.
f. 10r: ‘Valor terrarum et tentorum fynarum et rectorarium apperarum Decano et Capitulo ecclesiae Collegium beate Marie Warrwick’, copied from the original, owned by Fish, by Wanley in 1691 (Bernard, ii, no. 6705).
ff. 11v–13r: Copies of deeds from Warwick owned by Fish and others owned by Sir William Boughton.
ff. 13v–14v: Copy of an inspeximus of Henry VI.
ff. 15r–19v: Copy of the rent roll of Thomas Hall (Bernard, ii, no. 6710). ‘Copied from the original Rolls, Oct. 6, 1691, now in the Custody of Mr. Fish of Warwick.’
ff. 20r–21r: Copies of charters belonging to Sir William Boughton (supplied to Wanley by Samuel Carte; cf. Letters, p. 292). Opens with a deed from the dean and chapter of Lichfield, respecting the foundation of a charity at Coventry, dated 1348.
f. 22r–v: Detached leaf from a cartulary of Haughmond Abbey, other fragments of which are now Harley MS 446.
f. 40r: Inscriptions from the windows of the church of Stoke near Coventry, copied by Wanley, 1691.
f. 41r: Added slip listing contents.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002053360", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 7505: Humfrey Wanley, Facsimile copies of charters and inscriptions" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002053360 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 7505 : Humfrey Wanley, Facsimile copies of charters and inscriptions - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[7516]/040-002053360
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1689
- End Date:
- 1691
- Date Range:
- 1689-1691
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Dimensions: 380 × 270 mm.
Foliation: ff. 41 (+ 4 modern paper flyleaves at the begininng and 2 at the end).
Script: Gothic; gothic cursive; humanist; insular minuscule: all written in imitation of the originals by Humfrey Wanley.
Binding: British Museum, rebound 1967.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Humfrey Wanley (b. 1672, d. 1726), Old English scholar and librarian.
Provenance:
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:
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Edward Bernard, Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliæ et Hiberniæ in unum collecti, 2 vols (Oxford: Sheldonian Theatre, 1697), ii, nos. 6705–6, 6710.
A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, ed. by Robert Nares and others, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808–12), iii, 532.
Neil R. Ker, Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books, Guides and Handbooks, 3, 2nd edn (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), p. 194.
Letters of Humfrey Wanley: Palaeographer, Anglo-Saxonist, Librarian, 1672-1726: With an Appendix of Documents, ed. by P. L. Heyworth (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989), pp. 4, 292.
The Cartulary of St Mary’s Collegiate Church, Warwick, ed. by Charles Fonge (Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2004), pp. 13, 22, 29.
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. 475.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Wanley, Humfrey, Old English scholar and librarian, 1672-1726,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000083872680 - Related Archive Descriptions:
- Harley MS 446