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Harley MS 897
- Record Id:
- 040-002046726
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046726
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x000193
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 897
- Title:
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English pedigrees and arms
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-6r: A table of family names.
ff. 6v-74r: A collection of notes on English nobility, including obits, pedigrees, coat of arms (tricked), and church notes; with some additions by Ralfe Brooke (b. 1553, d. 1625), Officer of Arms.
ff. 75r-87r: Notes about the deaths of noblemen and -women, both from England and other countries; with the outlines of arms, unfinished.
ff. 87v-234v: Pedigrees of English families, some with notes and arms, tricked or coloured.
ff. 235r-245r: A table of family names.
The manuscript contains a later addition:
f. 1*recto: A note about the manuscript, dated 22 February 1763.
Decoration:
Coats of arms in brown ink throughout the manuscript; most are tricked, but some (added on paper pastedowns) are in colours.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002046726", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 897: English pedigrees and arms" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046726 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 897 : English pedigrees and arms - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0897]/040-002046726
- 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:
- 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: 310 x 210 mm.
Foliation: ff. 1* + 245 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end); unfoliated paper pastedowns on ff. 21v, 54r [2x], 60r, 69r, 69v, 71v, 101v, 103v, 105v [2x], 107r, 107v [in colours], 108r, 110r, 117r; 121v [in colours], 122r [in colours], 124v, 125r, 125v [2x], 126r, 128v, 129r [in colours], 129v, 132r, 134v, 137r, 140r, 144r, 149r, 152r, 154v [3x], 155r [in colours], 166r, 167v, 179v [2x], 188r, 196v [2x], 201v [2x in colours], 208v, 209r; 1 unfoliated paper leaf between f. 74 and f. 75; ff. 127, 147, 198, and 200 are strips of paper mounted onto paper guards.
Script: 16th-century script.
Binding: British Museum in-house.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England.
Provenance:
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. 469.
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)