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Harley MS 1078
- Record Id:
- 040-002046907
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046907
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x000248
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1078
- Title:
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English coats of arms organised by Ordinary
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-54r: Coats of English families (20 per page), organised according to their Ordinaries.
ff. 55r-62r: An alphabetical index of family names included in this manuscript.
The manuscript contains an addition:
f. 1*recto: A fragment of a charter written by a certain Robert Davison; written in the 16th century.
Decoration:
Coats of arms, tricked, drawn in brown ink throughout the manuscript.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002046907", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 1078: English coats of arms organised by Ordinary" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046907 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 1078 : English coats of arms organised by Ordinary - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[1078]/040-002046907
- 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:
- 1575
- End Date:
- 1599
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 16th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 295 x 205 mm.
Foliation: ff. 1* + 62 (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning + 1 at the end); 1 unfoliated parchment strip pasted on f. 1*recto.
Script: 17t-century script.
Binding: British Museum in-house.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Ralph Brooke (b. c. 1553, d. 1625), Rouge Croix Pursuivant and York Herald, owned between 1594 and 16611: his name inscribed (2x) on f. 62v: 'Raphe Brook Yorke Herauld 1594 - Ralfe Brooke yorke Herault of Armes 1611' (not listed in the entry for Ralph Brook in Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 84).
? Robert Tanner of Kenninghall, Norfolk, (?) owned early 17th century: his name and possibly his arms inscribed on f. 1*verso: ‘Robert Tanner of Keninghall in the Countye of Norffolk’ (not in Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)).
John Spicer (fl. 1680s): appears to have owned the manuscript (see 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:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), I (1808), p. 541.
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. 391.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- England