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Harley MS 1081
- Record Id:
- 040-002046910
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046910
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x00024b
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1081
- Title:
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Visitation of Berkshire, 1566
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
f. 1r: A title page, ‘The Visitation of Barkshier Anno 1566 – Made by William Harvy Esquier alias Clarencieux King of Armes, Collected and Augmented by William Smith alias Rougdragon officer of Armes 1602’; signed by ‘John Withy Anno 1628’.
ff. 2r-65v: A heraldic collection with the Arms of ‘The Towne of Abbendon’ ; The Arms of ‘The Monastery of Abendon’; The Arms of ‘The Towne of Reading’.
ff. 66v-67r: The pedigree of the Lane family.
ff. 68r-70r: Index of names of the pedigrees featuring in the manuscript.
Decoration:
Numerous coats of arms drawn in brown ink.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002046910", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 1081: Visitation of Berkshire, 1566" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046910 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 1081 : Visitation of Berkshire, 1566 - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[1081]/040-002046910
- 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:
- 1566
- End Date:
- 1566
- Date Range:
- 1566
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 295 x 190 mm.
Foliation: ff. 70 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end); 3 unfoliated paper leaves between f. 2 and f. 3; 1 between f. 19 and f. 20; 3 between f. 23 and f. 24; f. 67 has a fold-out.
Script: 16th-century script.
Binding: British Museum in-house.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
John Withie (b. 1593, d. ? 1678), arms painter for the College of Arms: his name inscribed on f. 1r: ‘John Withy Anno 1628’ (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 357).
John Spicer, copied the manuscript in 1628: acquired from John Withie (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. 703.
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)