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Harley MS 894
- Record Id:
- 040-002046723
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046723
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x000190
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 894
- Title:
- Collection of tracts on heraldic matters
- Scope & Content:
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Several tracts written in different hands, including lists of peers created by James I, the Queen’s procession to St Paul’s 1588, two alphabets of arms in blazon, and an account of the nobility to 1572.
Contents:
f. 1: Peers of England created in the first seven years of King James I’s reign. Header: ‘A Catalogue of the Dukes, Earles, Viscounts, & Barrons, created, restored, & called by Writt, in the kingdome of England, since the firste Yeare of the reygne of Kinge James’.
f. 2: Peers of Scotland created by King James I. Header: ‘Earles, Viscounts, & Barons, created by Kinge James in the kingdome of Scotland, since his reigne of the whole Ilande of Greate Britayne’.
f. 3v-3r: The order of Queen Elizabeth I’s procession from Somerset Place to St Pauls, 1588. Folio reversed. Header on f. 3v: ‘The Order of the Queenes royall proceedings from Summersett Place to Poules Church, Anno, 1588. And how all Estats were then marshaled’.
ff. 4-34: List of the arms of many old families of Lincolnshire and other counties, in blazon. In alphabetical order.
ff. 35-90: Another alphabetical list of family arms, in blazon.
ff. 91-152: Account of the nobility of England, from the Conquest to 1572. Account ascribed to Robert Cooke, Clarencieux, without the painted or tricked arms present in the margins of other copies.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002046723", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 894: Collection of tracts on heraldic matters" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046723 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 894 : Collection of tracts on heraldic matters - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0894]/040-002046723
- 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:
- 1560
- End Date:
- 1640
- Date Range:
- Late 16th century-Early 17th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 320 x 230 mm.
Foliation: 152 folios
Binding: British Museum binding.
- 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.
Former owner: Edward Stillingfleet (1635-1688), Bishop of Worcester.
- 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. 894.
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. 316.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)