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Harley MS 820
- Record Id:
- 040-002046649
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046649
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x000146
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 820
- Title:
- A table of contents for an heraldic manuscript
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-32v; 34r-43v: A table of contents for an heraldic manuscript, organised alphabetically according to surnames of English nobility and gentry; from the Conquest to the time of Elizabeth I: ‘A table wherbie to finde oute everie perticuler name contained in this booke accordinge unto the alphabet and also to finde oute everie personne of nobillitie uppon the pronouncinge of the firste letter of his title and callinge as for Exampell for this woorde Duke finde this lettar D: and so for everie other title uppon the firste letter; also everie Eareldome is tabled by the name thearof and in remembring the Earledome you maye finde the Earle thearof: also everie person is tabled by his christian name and surname and by either of them you maye finde anie name menconed [sic] in this booke whatsoever as for Example: Adam Newmarche: for Adam finde A and Newmarche finde N and so forthe like’; imperfect at the end (ending with ‘W’).
Decoration:
Calligraphically decorated initials throughout the manuscript.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002046649", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 820: A table of contents for an heraldic manuscript" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046649 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 820 : A table of contents for an heraldic manuscript - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0820]/040-002046649
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1550
- End Date:
- 1599
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 16th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 360 x 320 mm.
Foliation: ff. 43 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 2 at the end); f. 33 is a former flyleaf.
Script: 16th-century script.
Binding: Post-1600.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
? Sir Robert Wroth (b. c. 1539, d. 1606), landowner and politician: his name and that of his wife (‘Robert Wroth – Mary Wroth’) inscribed on f. 33v (not in Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)).
‘George’, owned in the 16th or 17th century: his name inscribed on f. 33r: perhaps also his ownership inscription: ‘Be it knowen unto all men by this [...] that I George [...]’ (not in Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)).
‘Katherine Yearley’, owned in the 16th or 17th century: her name inscribed (2x) on f. 1r; the name ‘Yearley’ also inscribed (3x) on f. 33r (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p.
‘John Johnson’, possibly John Johnson (fl. 17th century), Master of the Painter-Stainers Company 1696: his name inscribed on f. 33r (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 206).
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), pp. 435-36.
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)