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Harley MS 1074

Record Id:

040-002046903

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002046903

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x000244

LARK:

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Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 1074

Title:

Heraldic collection of arms and genealogies

Scope & Content:

This heraldic collection of arms and genealogies was compiled towards the end of the reign of Henry VIII, but contains a few 17th-century additions.

Contents:

f. 1r: Table of 'Dessents of noble noblemen' with folio references to this manuscript.

ff. 2r-151v: Pedigrees and descents of English nobility, also including short tracts, including 'How the Eritage of the Erlis of Warayn descendeth to dyvers persones here under wryten' (ff. 73v-74r) and 'The Vowsons of Cherchis, Prebendis, and Chantris, that bene in the handis of the Erle of Devenshiere' (f. 147r).

f. 152r: Fragment of a royal genealogy, featuring Henry VI and Henry VI.

ff. 153r-171r: Genealogy from Adam to King Henry VIII, including Roman kings and emperors, Trojan kings of France, 'the xij peres of France', and ending with 'La derecte ligne de france'

ff. 171v-174v: Coats of arms of counts and dukes of France, painted and blazoned in French heraldic terminology.

f. 175r: Account of the genealogy of the Earls of Flanders.

ff. 175r-183r: Genealogy of the descendants of Charlemagne, principally of the Houses of Brabant and Lorraine; ending with King Henry VIII.

f. 184v: On the original names of European kingdoms, beginning: 'Spayne ffirste was called Celtuberie'.

ff. 185r-190r: Genealogy of the Kings of Spain, with the arms of Spanish and Portuguese Archbishops and Bishops, and nobility.

ff. 190v-197r: Genealogy of the Kings of Scotland, with a tract 'Howe Englond shuld have homage and feaulte of Scotlonde'; extracted from 'olde Cronicles authoryzed remaynyng in dyvers monasterreys in Englond and in Scotlonde by the whiche it is openly known and shewed that the king of Englond have had andought to have domynacion and Subiecyon of the Realme of Scotlond and homage and ffeaultie of the kings of the same Realme of Scotlond'.

ff. 197v-198v: A tract, entitled: 'The kings titelez to alle Landes bravely Reported with a mocion to union Scotland to Englond'; with the name 'John Hardyng maker'.

ff. 199r: 'The names as Such as where creatyd Erlles and barons in the tyme of king henrey the vj'.

ff. 199r-201v: Descent of Woodville, Earl Rivers, and Beaufort, Duke of Somerset.

ff. 199v-203r: Succession of the Archbishops of Canterbury from St Augustine to John Stafford (r. 1443–r. 1452), continued by later hands to Gilbert Sheldon (r. 1663–1667).

ff. 202r-204r: Genealogy of the Royal house of Portugal.

ff. 204v-210r: Genealogy of the Dukes of Milan; including many notes on the family and legends about their coat of arms (a serpent devouring a child).

ff. 210-211r: Pedigree of the Dukes of Bretagne.

ff. 211v-213r: 'La Genealogie de tres-hault et puissaunt Seigneur, Monseigneur Pielrre de Luxembourg, Conte de Saint Pol, de Connersan, et de Briam, Seigneur d'Enhien, de Fiesne, et Chastellain de Lille'.

ff. 214v-215r: Descendants from Enguerrand VII de Coucy.

ff. 216r-218r: Pedigree of Egmond, Duke of Guelders.

f. 218v: Descendants from Owen Tudor and Catherine of Valois, widow of King Henry V.

ff. 219r-221v: Pedigree of the House of Savoy.

ff. 222r-224r: Part of the Pedigree of Baret and Dyneley.

ff. 224v-226r: Descents of Roos of Kendall Parre, Fitzhugh, Vaux

ff. 226v-228v: Pedigree of Hampden, Raley, Wallisborough, Wadham, Popeham, Stoner, and Norbery. .

ff. 229r-233v: Treatise on Willem V van Kleef's right to the Duchy of Guelders and the county of Zutphen, which were transferred to Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, with the Treaty of Venlo in 1543, beginning: 'Illustrissimi principes ye have understand how the Barons, Nobles and Cities with the holle people of the dukedome of gelders and Countie of Zutphen have made homage to the illustrissimi princeps Lorde William Ducke of Juliers Gelders Clevers and Berghen Erle of March Zutphen and Ravensburgh Lord in Ravenstaine as to the trew and Lawfull heir of those domynions consenting therto by transaction illustrissimi Lorde Charles who Lately possessed the Dukedome of Gelder and Erledome of Zutphen'.

f. 234v: Laws concerning the Duchy of Guelders and the County of Zutphen for Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor.

ff. 234r-234v: 'Certaine Articles concerning the Duke of Cleve for his deliverance A. R. R. H. VIII xxxxvto'.

ff. 235-256r: Genealogies of English nobility, with an epitaph of Sir Roger Beauchamp of Bletsoe on f. 246r

ff. 257r-315r: Genealogies demonstrating how dukes, marquesses, earls, viscounts, and lords are of royal lineage.

ff. 315v-372v: Genealogies of English nobility.

f. 273r: 'The names of the ix woorthies'.

f. 273r: 'The names of the Emperours and kings under the greate Turke'.

f. 273v: 'The names of the Emperours and kings that bee under the Solden'.

f. 273v: 'Emperours and Kinges as thay have taken place by Antiquitie'.

Decoration:

Coats of arms tricked in brown ink or painted in colours throughout the manuscript.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002046903

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 1074 : Heraldic collection of arms and genealogies

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[1074]/040-002046903

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English
French
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1540

End Date:

1549

Date Range:

1540s

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: leaves approximately measuring 300 x 210 mm, mounted to fit a volume measuring 300 x 225 mm.

Foliation: ff. 1* + 273 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end); f. 1* is a paper leaf at the beginning

Collation: Each leaf has been mounted separately onto a paper guard.

Script: Cursive.

Binding: British Museum in-house; purple half leather binding with the Harleian arms gold stamped on the outside covers; marbled endpapers.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

John Spicer (fl. 1682), owned the manuscript: according to Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 311.

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:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), II (1808), pp. 537-40.

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)

Places:

England