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Harley MS 1082
- Record Id:
- 040-002046911
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046911
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x00024c
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1082
- Title:
- Mixed heraldry book, with extracts from visitation books for Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, and accounts of painter-stainers’ work
- Scope & Content:
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Book in various hands containing several kinds of heraldical matter, including arms painters’ work for funerals, extracts from Visitations, and accounts of funeral work supplied by the arms painter John Saunders, 1677-1680.
Contents:
ff. 1-7: Alphabetical table of surnames of families in the first part of the book.
ff. 9-10: Notes for quantities of materials (taffaty etc.) necessary for making penons, penoncils, escutcheons, banners, and other heraldic items for funerals.
f. 11: Prices for banners etc. supplied at funerals by the painter-stainers.
ff. 12-31: Arms of many of the gentry and of some nobility, with the names of the painters who supplied the escutcheons etc at their funerals.
ff. 31v-50: Account of painter-stainers’ work at many funerals, with the achievements, or arms of the deceased.
ff. 51v-52r: Pedigree of Yeward.
ff. 53-54: Account of painter-stainers’ work done by John Saunders for Sir Thomas Fowler, Sheriff for the City of London 1686, and Sir William Pritchard, Lord Mayor of London 1682/3.
f. 55: Arms of Willoughby impaling Webb, attested by John Philpott, Somerset; together with the arms of Lathom of Parbolle.
ff. 56-60: Notes of painters’ work done at various funerals.
ff. 61-62: Painters’ work done by John Saunders at the funeral of Oliver Cromwell.
ff. 64-80: Part of the Visitation book of Nottinghamshire, taken by Sir Richard St George, Norroy, 1614.
ff. 82-88: Extracts from the Visitation book of Derbyshire, 1662, by Sir William Dugdale, then Norroy. The arms of the gentry described in blazon.
ff. 89-96r: Account of arms painting work done for funerals by John Saunders 1676, with arms tricked. Includes: ‘The proceeding to the funerall of a gentleman’ (f. 94r) and ‘The proceeding to the funerall of a Knight’ (f. 95r).
ff. 96v-104: Account of arms painting work done for funerals by John Saunders 1677, with arms tricked.
ff. 104-110v: Account of arms painting work done for funerals by John Saunders 1678, with arms tricked.
ff. 110v-116r, and ff. 122-125r: Account of arms painting work done for funerals by John Saunders 1679, with arms tricked.
ff. 116v-117v: Alphabetical table of surnames of many families in this book.
ff. 118-121: Alphabet of the arms of the Derbyshire gentry, in blazon, written by John Saunders, 1676.
ff. 125r-133: Account of arms painting work done for funerals by John Saunders 1680, with arms tricked.
ff. 134-136: Arms of various deceased, with the names of the painter-stainers employed about their funerals (as in the earlier part of the volume).
f. 137: Part of another alphabetical table of surnames.
f. 138: More accounts and lists of materials used for funerals.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046911 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 1082 : Mixed heraldry book, with extracts from visitation books for Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, and accounts of painter-stainers’ work - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[1082]/040-002046911
- 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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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 310 x 230 mm.
Foliation: 138 folios.
Binding: British Museum binding.
- 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).
Former owner: by John Saunders (died c. 1687), arms painter (Wright, Fontes Harleiani, p. 297).
- 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. 1082.
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. 297, 311.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)