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Harley MS 7648
- Record Id:
- 040-002053506
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002053506
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000984.0x00028d
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 7648
- Title:
- Collection of law cases in the Royal Court (15 Henry VIII to 25 Elizabeth I); abbreviated forms of the writs
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-201v, 206v-224v: Collection of law cases in the Royal Court, from 15 Henry VIII to 25 Elizabeth I.
f. '307'recto: Folio references to specific subjects, beginning with 'Withernam'.
ff. 225r-288r: Abbreviated legal forms.
ff. 301v-306v: A subject index.
The manuscript contains various additions:
f. [iii]recto: A note by Sir Frederic Madden (b. 1801, d. 1873), Keeper of Manuscripts at the British Museum, that the volume was initially accessioned as Additional MS 4999 and then made Harley MS 7648.
f. '307'verso: Various Latin memoranda naming 'Thomas yorkehill'; 'Franciscus Hoopwell'; 'Thomas Howellus'; 'Edith Metham de metham [matham]' and 'Thomas metham' (witness); including two English inscriptions: '[…] Wamonden [? Wymondham] in the Countie of leic[ester] employed to the Churche of St Michell in Covantree suppressed by the statute of Anno primo E.6'; and 'The wardes of Mr Cure towchinge his lease of parishe garden / beinge axed by Mr Adams when he laye sick two daies before he died saide: I toke the lease and after bought the lande on my sonnes name because it was holden on chefe / And my mynde allwaies was that my unne [? Tho.] shold have that lande an manner. And I [? gave] hym my estate theran'; added in the late 16th or early 17th century.
ff. [202]recto-[204]recto: A subject index for the law cases in the Royal Court on ff. 1r-224v; added in the 17th century.
f. 186v: Practice sentences and memoranda in Latin and English, including: 'Memorandum quod aliais silitet'; 'The condition of this obligations is suche as'; added in the early 17th century.
f. 287r: An incomplete memorandum from the time of King James I, beginning: 'Memorandum quod alliais cillicet'.
f. 288v: A Latin note on leaf '45a'; added in the 17th century.
f. 301r: A Latin memorandum from the time of King James I, beginning: 'Memorandum quod alliais tililtet'.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002053506", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 7648: Collection of law cases in the Royal Court (15 Henry VIII to 25 Elizabeth I); abbreviated forms of the writs" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002053506 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 7648 : Collection of law cases in the Royal Court (15 Henry VIII to 25 Elizabeth I); abbreviated forms of the writs - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[7662]/040-002053506
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1582
- End Date:
- 1583
- Date Range:
- 1582-1583
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 310 x 200 (text space: 255-260 x 135-145 mm).
Foliation: ff. 306 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end); only early modern foliation throughout the manuscript; the first leaf after f. 201 is foliated as '307', which indicates that this leaf was originally bound at the end of the manuscript; the next three leaves, containing a table in columns that have been numbered '1' to '10', were added later and are unfoliated; these leaves are referred to here as ff. [202]-[204]; after these leaves, the foliation continues with f. 205 (a blank paper leaf). Various jumps in the foliation indicates loss of 1 folio between f. 298 and f. 300; and 2 folios between f. 5 and f. 8; f. 283 and f. 285; f. 288 and f. 291; f. 291 and f. 294; and f. 295 and f. 297. Loss of text due to damage to folios that have been repaired with blank paper on ff. 1-2, 14.
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: Post 1600. Brown speckled leather with gold-tooled borders and the Harleian armorial bookplate gold-stamped on the outside covers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
'M. Tho[?ma]son', owned the manuscript in 1657: according to a note on f. 151r (see below).
An unknown English owner in 1657: bought the manuscript from the above, according to an inscription on f. 151r: 'Bought of M Tho. son per the second of August 1657 […]'.
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.
Acquired by the British Museum with the Harleian Manuscripts in 1753, but not placed with that collection. Found among refuse and accessioned as Additional MS 4999, the item was subsequently identified as a Harleian manuscript and re-numbered Harley MS 7648.
- Publications:
- A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-1812), III (1808), p. [542] (no. 7648) [British Library copy].
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Madden, Frederic, Knight, Keeper of Manuscripts, British Museum, 1801-1873
- Places:
- England