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Harley MS 245
- Record Id:
- 040-002046073
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046073
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000596.0x000206
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 245
- Title:
- A miscellany of heraldic works by Robert Glover
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 3*recto-6*recto: Indices of pedegrees, arms and seals in the manuscript.
ff. 2r-168r: A miscellany of heraldic works by Robert Glover (b. 1543/1544, d. 1588), herald of Somerset [the original texts are in two manuscripts in the College of Arms]: see f. 2*recto: ‘Liber miscellanaorum Roberti Gloveri Somerseti Heraldi’ and f. 74r: ‘Incipit Liber Confusanearum, B / Robert Gloveri Somersetti Heraldi’; featuring numerous copies of charters with drawings of arms on their seals; inscriptions and arms on gravestones; and genealogies in Latin and English; featuring an English poem on f. 105v: James Packe, Poem on the Willoughby family, headed ‘Out of an old Roll in parchemin’; beginning ‘O holy St George of very champion’; ending ‘Quod James Packe’.
Decoration:
Numerous coats of arms, some with colours.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002046073", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 245: A miscellany of heraldic works by Robert Glover" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046073 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 245 : A miscellany of heraldic works by Robert Glover - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0244]/040-002046073
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1600
- End Date:
- 1600
- Date Range:
- 1600
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 350 x 230 mm.
Foliation: ff. 1*-6* + 168 + 61* (+ 5 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end); 4 unfoliated paper leaves between f. 6* and f. 1; 6 between f. 168 and f. 169; ff. 1*-6* are paper leaves; f. 61* is a paper strip between f. 61 and f. 62; 2 unfoliated paper pastedowns (17th-century notes) on f. 1*recto; 1 unfoliated paper pastedown (bibliographical notes) on f. [vi]verso.
Script: Gothic script.
Binding: Post-1600. British Museum in-house; re-bound on 21 March 1962.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England.
Provenance:
William Smith (b. c. 1550, d. 1618), merchant, traveller, topographer, Rouge Dragon Pursuivant of Arms in Ordinary at the College of Arms, 1597-1618: transcribed or compiled the manuscript from the heraldic writings of Robert Glover (b. 1543/1544, d. 1588), herald of Somerset: his inscription on f. 2*recto: ‘Liber miscellanaorum Roberti Gloveri Somerseti Heraldi Transcriptus per Willelum Smith Rougedragon Anno 1600 – Silentio et Spe’ (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 307).
Sir Simonds D’Ewes (b. 1602, d. 1650), 1st baronet, diarist, antiquary, and friend of Sir Robert Cotton (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 131): recorded in his catalogues A.346 and B.220.
Sir Simonds D’Ewes (d. 1722), 3rd baronet and grandson of the former: inherited and later sold the D’Ewes library to Robert Harley on 4 October 1705 for £450.
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. 2462.5/1.
A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), I (1808), pp. 74-76.
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. 376.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)