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Harley MS 667
- Record Id:
- 040-003436103
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-003436103
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100073439284.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 667
- Title:
- Collections of statutes; lists of English kings; a prayer to St Mary Magdalene
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-253v: A large collection of English statutes and charters; including Magna Carta (ff. 15r-19v) and Summa Magna (f. 257v); written in the late 13th century or early 14th century.
ff. 254r-297v: A collection of statutes, formula for oaths, a text on the office of bailiff, and 'Nomina Regum Christianorum quondam regnancium in Anglia' [up to Edward I] (f. 76v); ‘Divisio Comitatuum Anglie cum Archiepiscopatibus et Episcopatibus’ (ff. 283r-283v); written in the late 13th century.
ff. 298r-301v: Formula for pleading (Anglo-Norman), written in the (?)14th century.
The manuscript contains a few later additions:
ff. 1r-2r: A table of contents, added in the 15th century.
f. 14v: A list of the kings of England, from William the Conqueror to Henry IV, added in the 15th century.
f. 100v: A prayer to St Mary Magdalene in Middle English verse, followed by an indulgence in Latin, beginning ‘Seint marie magdalene lady ffair and brithg / Al crestendam clere thoroth þi gostly lithg’, added in the 15th century.
Decoration:
A rhombus with a motif in black ink in the lower margin of f. 234v.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-003436103", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 667: Collections of statutes; lists of English kings; a prayer to St Mary Magdalene" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-003436103 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 667 : Collections of statutes; lists of English kings; a prayer to St Mary Magdalene - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[7790]/040-003436103
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English, Middle
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1275
- End Date:
- 1499
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter 13th century-15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 200 x 155 mm.
Foliation: ff. 275* + 301 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + at the end); f. 275* is a parchment strip; 1 unfoliated parchment stub between f. 226 and f. 227; and f. 243 and f. 244; 3 between f. 253 and f. 254; f. 282 is a smaller parchment leaf mounted onto a paper guard
Script: Gothic.
Binding: Post-1600. British Museum in-house.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England.
Provenance:
Edward Stillingfleet (b. 1635, d. 1699), bishop of Worcester and theologian: in 1707, Robert Harley bought Harley MSS 665-904; 939-951; and 964-1038 for £175 (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 316)).
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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Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards, A New Index of Middle English Verse (London: The British Library, 2005), no. 2993/1.
A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), I (1808), pp. 401-402.
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. 437.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)