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Harley MS 810
- Record Id:
- 040-002046639
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046639
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x00013c
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 810
- Title:
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English pedigrees and heraldry
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-20v: Pedigrees of Leicestershire from the Visitation of 1564.
ff. 21r-33v: Pedigrees and arms of Warwickshire.
ff. 34v-114r: Pedigrees and arms of Lincolnshire.
ff. 115r-116v: Pedigrees of Digby of Tilton in Rutlandshire.
f. 117v: Pedigree of Attkirke of Lincolnshire.
f. 118r: Pedigree and arms of Thymilthorp of Folsham in Norfolk.
ff. 116v-121v: Table of the names of families, abovementioned in this book.
f. 125v: Arms in the church windows at Pynchbeck, Crowland and Uffington in Lincolnshire.
ff. 126r-127r: Calendar to the arms of the Lincolnshire gentry, taken and tricked by Robert Cooke, Chester Herald, 1562.
ff. 124v-134r: The arms referred to by the Calendar above mentioned.
f. 134v: Arms of Bellingham and Armstronge.
f. 134v: The Arms of Bolles, with Crest, Motto and Supporters.
The manuscript contains a later addition:
f. 1*recto: An old title-page, referring to the counties of Leicestershire, Warwickshire and Lincolnshire; added in the 16th or 17th century; with a note 'Visit. 9 July 6. Eliz. 1564 \fol. 1/ - for fol. 2 1562'.
Decoration:
Coats of arms, tricked, in brown ink, and in colours on paper pastedowns, throughout the manuscript.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002046639", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 810: English pedigrees and heraldry" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046639 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 810 : English pedigrees and heraldry - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0810]/040-002046639
- 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:
- 1530
- End Date:
- 1564
- Date Range:
- 1530-1564
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 335 x 215 mm.
Foliation: ff. 1* + 3* + 134 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end); f. 1* is a parchment strip pasted onto a paper leaf; f. 133 is a paper pastedown on a modern paper leaf; paper pastedowns on ff. 4r [in colours], 4v [2x in colours], 5r [in colours], 6v [2x in colours], 7r [4x in colours], 7v, 8v [2x], 9r [in colours], 13v, 14v [2x], 16v, 18r, 18v, 23v, 42r, 43r, 48v, 93v, 114r, 125v, 132r, 134v [3x, 1 in colours]; each leaf has been mounted onto a paper guard; and has a paper strip attached to its right margin.
Script: 16th-century script.
Binding: British Museum in-house.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
? Thomas Benolt (d. 1534), Windsor Herald 1504: Norroy King of Arms 1510; Clarenceux King of Arms 1511, perhaps owned in (?) 1530: his name with this date inscribed on f. 1*recto: ‘Tho[mas] Benolt al[ia]s Clarenceux 1530 21 H 8 scriptat[o]r ’ (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 70).
Edward Stillingfleet (b. 1635, d. 1699), Bishop of Worcester: his manuscripts were bought for £175 in 1707 by Robert Harley (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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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), I (1808), p. 447.
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. 386.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- England