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Harley MS 892
- Record Id:
- 040-002046721
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046721
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x00018e
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 892
- Title:
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Thomas Cole, The Visitation of Sussex; An Alphabet of Arms of Sussex and Surrey
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
f. 1*recto: A title page: ‘Pettigrees and Armes taken out of an old visitation of Sussex etcaetera with some new additions’.
ff. 1r-37r: The Visitation of Sussex, ‘Oute of Mr Pensons booke’.
ff. 38r-40r: Notes taken ‘In the parishe Church of Glyn’; Glyn, Stopham, West Sussex, with other coats of arms.
ff. 40v-41r: A tract on how the parish church of the Cistercian monastery of Beaulieu Abbey in Hampshire (‘Bello loco Regis alias Bewley’) was destroyed at the Dissolution of the Abbey; together with some Church notes (f. 90).
ff. 42r-45r: An Alphabet of Arms, blazoned, of English families, mainly Sussex and Surrey.
ff. 46r-51r: ‘Table of the surnames in this Booke’.
Decoration:
Coats of arms, tricked, in brown ink throughout the manuscript.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002046721", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 892: Thomas Cole, The Visitation of Sussex; An Alphabet of Arms of Sussex and Surrey" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046721 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 892 : Thomas Cole, The Visitation of Sussex; An Alphabet of Arms of Sussex and Surrey - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0892]/040-002046721
- 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:
- 1649
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 17th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Foliation: ff. 1* + 51 (+ 5 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end); 1 unfoliated paper leaf between f. 3 and f. 4; f. 4 and f. 5; f. 6 and f. 7; f. 9 and f. 10; 2 unfoliated paper leaves between f. 42 and f. 43; 1 unfoliated paper pastedown on f. [52]verso (note of examination).
Dimensions: 305 x 195 mm.
Script: 16th-century script.
Binding: British Museum in-house.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England.
Provenance:
Thomas Cole (fl. mid 17th century), of the Court of Wards and Liveries; and of the Inner Temple: wrote the manuscript; his stamp (‘DEUM COLE’) on f. 3v (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 108).
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. 468.
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. 387.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)