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Harley MS 1048
- Record Id:
- 040-002046877
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046877
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x00022a
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1048
- Title:
- Heraldic miscellany, including arms in trick
- Scope & Content:
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Heraldic collection in several hands, consisting of two distinct parts (ff. 2-50, and ff. 51*-112).
Part 1:
f. 1: Preliminary leaf with sketch of arms of Eatton of Cheshire, and a rough bill.
ff. 2-6: Name index of the first part (ff. 2-50), with the title ‘A Table for the 87 leaves following in tricks’.
ff. 7-50: Arms of many Kentish, Shropshire, Somersetshire, Derbyshire and other counties.
Includes:
f. 22: Arms of the gentry from a visitation of Norfolk.
f. 27: Arms of the gentry of Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and other counties.
f. 36: Arms of old Irish and Anglo-Irish families; and of English families of different counties.
ff. 47v-48: Descents of Wildgoose and Harman, with their arms.
f. 49r: Fabulous arms, ascribed to the World’s Nine Worthies.
f. 49v. Arms of the Empire, and of various foreign kingdoms.
f. 50v: Arms of various ancient English kings, princes and nobles; of the counts of Toulouse; and of the family of Squire.
Part 2:
ff. 51*v-54r: Part of a table of the names of families.
ff. 54v-107: Arms of many old families entered in no order, interspersed with the following arrms.
ff. 64-65: Arms of Eaton College and of the colleges in Oxford University (except Wadham and Pembroke).
ff. 65-67: Arms of most of the bishops sees in England.
ff. 68-70: Arms of families with surnames beginning with Fitz.
ff. 71v-76: Part of an alphabet in trick; the surnames of most of the families beginning with A.
f. 77: Arms of English Kings, before and after the Conquest, and of some foreign monarchs.
ff. 108-112: Incomplete alphabetical index of names of the second part of the volume (i.e. index to ff. 51*-112).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002046877", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 1048: Heraldic miscellany, including arms in trick" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046877 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 1048 : Heraldic miscellany, including arms in trick - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[1048]/040-002046877
- 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: 295 x 200 mm.
Foliation: 1, 1*, 2-10, 10*, 11-50, 50*, 51-112 folios (total 115 folios).
Binding: British Museum speckled calf binding with gold tooling.
- 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).
- 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. 1048.
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. 311.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)