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Copies of Liber privilegiorum et libertatum alme universitatis Cantebrigiensis, 1587, several with annotations and additions
| Title |
Copies of Liber privilegiorum et libertatum alme universitatis Cantebrigiensis, 1587, several with annotations and additions |
| Reference |
GBR/0265/Hare |
| Creator |
Hare, Robert |
| Covering Dates |
1587–1875 |
| Extent and Medium |
9 volumes; vellum and paper; Manuscript |
| Repository |
Cambridge University Archives |
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| Content and context |
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Robert Hare (d.1611), antiquary, matriculated Fellow-Commoner from Gonville Hall in 1545, but left Cambridge without taking a degree and entered the Inner Temple. From 1560-71, he was Clerk of the Pells: an office of government with shared oversight of the Exchequer of Receipt.
The Liber comprises copies by a professional scribe of transcripts by Hare of royal charters, letters patent and other documents granting and confirming the University's privileges, partly from the University's records, but chiefly from those of central government in the Tower. Notes by Registrary Romilly, Vice-Chancellor Ashton and F.S. Parris and pasted-in lists of various kinds attempt to deal with the fact that both the contents and the deployment of the contents varies from set to set. Comparison suggests that A, the fine presentation copy, is derived from B, while C contains the fruit of further labour, but C is a fairer copy than B. It is suggested that there might have been a set D which was Hare's working copy from which A, B and C were taken with due exercise of selection, carelessness or conceivably censorship.
The volumes were presented to the University by Hare in 1587.
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Please cite as Cambridge University Archives, Copies of Liber privilegiorum et libertatum alme universitatis Cantebrigiensis, 1587, several with annotations and additions, Hare
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| Further information |
For background information, see A. G. Watson, 'Robert Hare's books', in The English medieval book: studies in memory of Jeremy Griffiths, ed. A. S. G. Edwards, Vincent Gillespie and Ralph Hanna (2000), pp.209-32. |
| Index Terms |
| Rights and Privileges |
| University/Hare contains: |
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A.I, II
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Liber privilegiorum et libertatum alme universitatis Cantebrigiensis. This is a two-volume illuminated copy, probably that presented to the University by Hare, although it has been suggested that some of the heraldic devices included are later than 1587. The illuminations include elaborate title pages for the beginning of each reign; crude depictions of the burning of weights and measures by the taxors and of the Black Assembly; very elaborate introductory pages with portraits of popes, arms of the University and Colleges and of Hare. Hare's arms appear very frequently throughout. Preliminary matter includes:- a letter of donation, mentioning John Copcot, Vice-Chancellor, as having urged Hare to the task; a dedicatory epistle with Hare's notarial signature; anathema on anyone alienating the Liber from the University. The hand is that of a professional scribal secretary, very regular. The volumes are bound in reversed calf (?), bossed and clasped, with a title label under horn on front board.
2 volumes; vellum. |
1587 |
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B.I-III
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Liber privilegiorum et libertatum alme universitatis Cantebrigiensis. This is traditionally regarded as the Registrary's office copy, conceivably that presented by Hare (see note to Hare A). An armorial charge is at the opening to volume I. Preliminary matter includes:- letter of donation varying from that in Hare A; anathema on alienation from the University, pasted in, but in a style and hand that would be consistent with its having been removed from the original end-papers, the present ones being marbled and probably inserted at some time when action was taken to prevent the upper clasp from damaging pages at the back of volume I. There is additional early Jacobean material at the end and annotations by Registrary Romilly. The text hand is professional scribal secretary, fairly regular. The binding is plain vellum with bosses and clasps and a title label under horn on the front board.
3 volumes; paper. |
1587–1850 |
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C.I-IV
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Liber privilegiorum et libertatum alme universitatis Cantebrigiensis. This is the Vice-Chancellor's set. The title pages are modestly decorative and incorporate the arms of Hare, which again appear at regular intervals throughout. The text is rubricated in a seemly but modest style. The preliminary matter to volume I includes a letter of donation apparently copied from Hare A and at a later date, in a quasi-print hand. The text hand is professional scribal secretary, very regular. The first two volumes are titled 'Pars prima' and 'Pars secunda'. The third volume is dated on the title page 1588 and has a later note 'This is the Fourth Volume of Hare', attended by contradictory annotations and notes by later Registraries. The fourth volume, dated 1588 on the title page, is similarly called the fifth volume. The fourth volume contains later transcripts of records relating to the borough and material not in Hare B. Legend maintains that a volume of Hare was lost by Vice-Chancellor Henry James in 1684, but, as a note by Vice-Chancellor Ashton points out, only four volumes are recorded in 1639 and it is far from clear what a missing volume might have contained. The binding is elaborately stamped calf incorporating the arms of the University, with gilt titles on the front board.
4 volumes; vellum title pages and paper text. |
1587–1875 |
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