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Harley MS 872
- Record Id:
- 040-002046701
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046701
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x00017a
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 872
- Title:
- Heraldry book of Thomas Jennings, with additions by Robert Greenhurst
- Scope & Content:
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Copy of an ancient book of arms in blazon written by Thomas Jennings, with additions by Robert Greenhurst, 1625.
f. 1: Title at head of folio: ‘A true Coppie (taken out) of the Auncient booke of Armes written by Tho: Jennings, and by him delivered into the Office: truly examined by Norrey Kinge at Armes, and Glover alias Somersett and by them allowed’. Description of additions made by Robert Greenhurst. Ownership inscriptions: ‘This booke was finished by Robert Greenhurst Ao. 1625’; and in another hand at foot of folio: ‘Liber Ricardi Symonds’
f. 35: ‘Fees and payments paid to the Heraulds at every Man’s first entrance into the Tilt-Yarde, according their severall Degrees’.
f. 36: ‘The Order of Goinge of all Greate Estates’.
f. 36: ‘The Placinge of Greate Officers, accordinge to the Statute of 21 of K. H. VIII’.
ff. 37-47: Name index
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002046701", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 872: Heraldry book of Thomas Jennings, with additions by Robert Greenhurst" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046701 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 872 : Heraldry book of Thomas Jennings, with additions by Robert Greenhurst - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0872]/040-002046701
- 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:
- 1600
- End Date:
- 1640
- Date Range:
- Early 17th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 285 x 180 mm.
Foliation: 47 folios.
Binding: British Museum quarter leather binding on marbled paper covered boards.
- Custodial History:
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The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (1661-1724), 1st earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, and Edward Harley (1689-1741), 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 (1694-1755) during her lifetime and thereafter to their daughter, Margaret Cavendish Bentinck (1715-1785), 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.
- Finding Aids:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), I (1808), no. 872.
- Publications:
- A R Wagner, A Catalogue of English Mediaeval Rolls of Arms (1950), p. 77.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)