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Harley MS 1039
- Record Id:
- 040-002046868
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046868
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x000221
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1039
- Title:
- Arms of rulers and nobles of foreign countries
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
f. 3: contents list headed ‘1566’. Signed at the bottom of the folio, ‘John Withie Ano 1630’.
ff. 4-11: Arms of the King of Spain, of the several kingdoms under his government, and of Spanish nobility.
ff. 12-21: Names of the provinces of France; arms of the King and peers of France; arms of the kingdoms of Arles and Navarre, and certain French nobility; list of princes, dukes and counts in 1588.
f. 18v: Names of electors of Germany
ff. 22-24: Portraitures of the peers of France in their robes with regalia, as at the coronation of Henry V (i.e., Henry VI?) when crowned King of France. With their arms.
ff. 25-29: Arms of the Dukes of Burgundy and the 17 provinces of the Netherlands and their nobility.
ff. 30-33: Arms of the rulers of Poland, Denmark, Massovia, Matthew Corvinus and Louis, Kings of Hungary, of the King of Sweden and the Grand Duke of Muscovy.
ff. 34-45: Arms and insignia of the families of the Venice in alphabetical order.
ff. 46-50: Arms of Italian princes and sovereignties.
ff. 51-56: Arms of the emperor Maximilian II and provinces under his dominion, including Bosnia, Servia, Wallachia, etc.
ff. 57-64: Arms of electors and nobility of Germany.
f. 64v: Arms of the seventeen provinces of the Netherlands, drawn by John Withie.
ff. 65-67: Arms of the Earle of Chester and his 8 barons, and other earls, bishops etc.
ff. 68-83: Arms of gentlemen and squires in Scotland, preceded by a name index (ff. 69-70), by John Withie.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002046868", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 1039: Arms of rulers and nobles of foreign countries" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046868 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 1039 : Arms of rulers and nobles of foreign countries - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[1039]/040-002046868
- 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:
- 1600
- End Date:
- 1640
- Date Range:
- Early 17th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 300 x 200 mm.
Foliation: 83 folios. Volume contains blank, unnumbered folios.
Binding: British Museum leather binding. Monogram of John Spicer cut from leather of previous binding pasted inside upper board.
- 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: John Spicer (Wright, Fontes Harleiani, p. 311).
Former owner: John Withie (1593-c. 1678), arms painter (Wright, Fontes Harleiani, p. 356-357). Signature and date 1630 on f. 3.
- 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. 1039.
Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 311, 356-7.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)