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Harley MS 1045
- Record Id:
- 040-002046874
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046874
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x000227
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1045
- Title:
- Heraldry book of John Saunders, arms painter
- Scope & Content:
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Heraldry collection in different hands owned by John Saunders (died c. 1687), arms painter.
Contents:
f. 1: MS annotations concerning bill to Sir Robert Henley for funeral of member of Every family (of his third wife, Barbara Every): ‘July 8th 1679 Sir Robert Henly for Every [etc.]’.
ff. 3-9: A collection of arms, perhaps entries in an arms-painter’s book of funerals of gentry supplied with escutcheons, pencels, etc. Among them arms of four families of Ramsay of Scotland.
ff. 10-11: Recipes for various colours, for use by painter-stainers.
f.12: Arms of the company of shipwrights.
f.13: Note concerning the Brewar family.
ff. 14-129: Entries of the arms supplied by John Saunders, painter-stainer, for the funerals of nobility, gentry and would-be gentry, from November 1652 to January 1675/6. Tricked, not coloured.
Includes:
- Confirmation of the arms of Bartholomew of Lalam in Middlesex, by Richard St George, Clarenceux, and Sir William Segar, Garter, dated 29 March 1632 (f. 30).
- Arms at the funeral of General Monck, Duke of Albemarle, 1669/70 (f. 73).
- Pedigrees transcribed from the visitation of the County Palatine of Chester, 1580, by William Flower, Norroy, and Robert Glover, Somerset Herald (ff. 98-112).
- Arms of Welsh Kings apparently warranted to Sir Daniel Donne by Thomas Jonnes of Fountaine-Gate in Cardiganshire (f. 114r).
ff. 130-142: Arms of the gentry of Northamptonshire.
ff. 142v-170r: Collection of the arms of many other families, tricked by an unidentified hand.
ff. 170v-177: Arms entered in the former manner (for funerals as on folios 14-129) by John Saunders.
ff. 178-199: Alphabetical index of names of families tricked in this volume. Between letters V and W are the arms of Oliver Cromwell’s Privy Counsellors in blazon (f. 196v).
f. 199v: Pen and ink drawing of a stag, with a medical recipe for treatment of gout.
f. 201r: Arms of shears empaling Rutland.
f. 201v: Pen and ink drawing of a boar, and draft accounts for work done.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002046874", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 1045: Heraldry book of John Saunders, arms painter" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046874 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 1045 : Heraldry book of John Saunders, arms painter - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[1045]/040-002046874
- 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:
- 1699
- Date Range:
- 17th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 300 x 260 mm.
Foliation: 203 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:
John Saunders, arms painter (died c. 1687) (Wright, Fontes Harleiani, p. 297).
Former owner: John Spicer (Wright, Fontes Harleiani, p. 311).
- 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. 1045.
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. 297, 311.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)