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Harley MS 1084
- Record Id:
- 040-002046913
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046913
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x00024e
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1084
- Title:
- Mixed heraldry book including extracts from Visitations of Northamptonshire, Sussex, and Yorkshire
- Scope & Content:
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Heraldical book written and tricked by different hands. Includes:
f. 1: Arms of Guyen, Normandy, of the Earl of March, Kent, and Cornwall; of England; with some fabulous arms interspersed.
ff. 2-13: Collection of arms of gentry of various counties, some specified as granted by Thomas Hawley, Robert Cooke Clarenceux, and Sir William Segar, Garter. Preceded by an alphabetical table of names.
f. 14: Alphabetical table of pedigrees in the two following tracts.
ff. 15-21: Part of a Visitation book of Northamptonshire, apparently of 1619 by Augustine Vincent Rouge-Rose, for William Camden, Clarenceux.
ff. 22-156: Part of a Visitation book of Sussex 1633 and 1634, by John Philpott, Somerset Herald, and George Owen, York Herald, marshals and deputies to Sir John Borough, Garter, and Sir Richard St George, Clarenceux, Kings of Arms. Pedigrees, with added evidence from historic deeds and some church notes. For further details of individual names mentioned, see: A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), I (1808), pages 542-543.
ff. 157-167: Arms etc. from churches and houses during the Yorkshire Visitation of 1584, by Robert Glover, Somerset Herald, for William Flower, Norroy King of Arms. With an index (f. 158).
f. 168: Some church notes taken in Sussex.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002046913", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 1084: Mixed heraldry book including extracts from Visitations of Northamptonshire, Sussex, and Yorkshire" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046913 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 1084 : Mixed heraldry book including extracts from Visitations of Northamptonshire, Sussex, and Yorkshire - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[1084]/040-002046913
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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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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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 305 x 230 mm.
Foliation: 168 folios.
Binding: British Museum in-house binding. Monogram of former owner John Saunders from old binding pasted on flyleaf.
- 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).
Former owner: John Withie (1593-c. 1678), arms painter (Wright, Fontes Harleiani, p. 356-357).
- 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, 356-357.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)