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Harley MS 1049
- Record Id:
- 040-002046878
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046878
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x00022b
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1049
- Title:
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A heraldic miscellany, including coats of arms of mayors and sheriffs of London
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
f. 1r: A printed leaf featuring the achievement of King Charles I, with the description: ‘The Emperiall achievement of our dread Soueraigne Kinge Charles together with the Armes, Crests Supporters & mottowes of all the severall Companies & Corporations of the famous Citty of London as they now heare them Are to be sould by William Webb at his shop at the signe of the Globe in Cornehill over against the Royall Exchange’. Below this description is a row of arms of trading companies.
ff. 2r-7v: Achievements of trading and livery companies of London printed on squares of paper, pasted onto blank paper leaves (4-6 per page).
ff. 8r-9r: A list of bills for ‘Sir Thomas Davis Pencils wrought & delivered for the Lord Mayors Steward Anno 1676 & 1677’.
f. 10r: The Shield of the Trinity (with Latin motto).
f. 11r: The arma Christi in an escutheon, entitled: ‘The Armes of Jesus the Saviour of the world Devised by the ffoure first ffathers of the Churche’.
ff. 12r-99r: Coats of arms of mayors and sheriffs of London, from the reign of King Richard I, some featuring historical notes; done by John Withie, John Sanders, John Spicer and others (9 per page).
ff. 100r-100v: Arms of English knights and gentry.
ff. 101r-112r: An alphabetical index of family names included in this manuscript.
Decoration:
Coats of arms, tricked, printed or drawn in brown ink throughout the manuscript.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002046878", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 1049: A heraldic miscellany, including coats of arms of mayors and sheriffs of London" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046878 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 1049 : A heraldic miscellany, including coats of arms of mayors and sheriffs of London - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[1049]/040-002046878
- 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:
- 1699
- Date Range:
- 17th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 280 x 185 mm.
Foliation: ff. 112 (+ 6 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning); 1 unfoliated paper pastedown (pressmark) on f. [vi]verso; f. 8 has a paper fold-out; f. 100 has a paper fold-out; f. 10 is a small paper leaf mounted onto a paper guard.
Script: 17th-century script.
Binding: British Museum in-house.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
John Spicer (fl. 1680s): appears to have owned the manuscript (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 391).
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), II (1808), p. 70.
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. 390.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)