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Harley MS 4844/2
- Record Id:
- 040-004251574
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-004251574
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100145055566.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 4844/2
- Title:
- Law reports and cases from the reign of Henry VI
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript is the second volume of a set of two volumes with legal texts, together comprising Harley MS 4844. The first volume is Harley MS 4844/1.
Contents:
ff. 113r-260v: Law reports and cases from the reign of Henry VI, written in French.
The manuscript contains an addition:
ff. 261r-261v: Leaf from an English liturgical manuscript (the same as Harley MS 4844/1, f. 1), containing part of a chronogrammatic Calendar (bound the other way around), introduced by a rubric beginning: 'Cum in plerisque dubiis que in nostro Kalendario', followed by a poem beginning: 'Fistulat hec duplici celer aptat glos feriendi'; written in the 15th century [for other copies, see Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B. 214; and Oxford, St John’s College, MS. 195].
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-004251574", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 4844/2: Law reports and cases from the reign of Henry VI" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-004251574 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 4844/2 : Law reports and cases from the reign of Henry VI - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[7891]/040-004251574
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- French, Middle
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1450
- End Date:
- 1549
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 15th century-1st half of the 16th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper; parchment (f. 261 only).
Dimensions: 350 x 250 mm (text space: 250 x 150 mm).
Foliation: ff. 113-261 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end); continuously foliated with Harley MS 4844/1; f. 262 is a parchment leaf from another manuscript that has been reused as a flyleaf
Collation: Indicated by leaf signatures and catchwords; each quire has been mounted separately onto a paper guard.
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: British Museum in-house; brown half leather with the Harleian arms gold stamped on the outside covers; rebound on 16 August 1968.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
William Walpole, 16th century: his ownership inscription on Harley MS 4844/1, f. 2r: 'Pertinet ad Willhelmum Walpole'; and Harley MS 4844/2, f. 261r: 'Wilhelmus Walpoll ys the owner of thys boke' (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 341).
Hugh Boscawen, 16th century: his ownership inscription on Harley MS 4844/2, f. 261r: 'Hugh Boscawen' [2x] and 'Hugh Boscawen hys prosperite' (previously unidentified, not in Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972),
John Anstis the elder (b. 1669, d. 1744), son of John Anstis of Duloe and Lunna, in St Neots, Cornwall, owned in 1719: acquired from him for the Harleian Library (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), pp. 50-52).
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 'Mr Anstis, A. D. 1719' (f. 2r).
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 forms one of the foundation collections of the British Library.
- Publications:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), p. 211.
Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 50-52, 341.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- England