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Harley MS 1088
- Record Id:
- 040-002046917
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046917
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x000252
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1088
- Title:
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An English heraldic manuscript
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-39v: A list of the commissioners of Oyer and Terminer, from 23 April, 29th year of Henry VIII (1538)-February 29th year of Queen Elizabeth I (1587).
f. 40r: Descents of Brome and Ferrers of Baddesley, Cockayne and Audley.
f. 41v: ‘A Table for the Armes in the .vii. leaves next after following’.
ff. 42r-45r: ‘Nomina et Arma illorum Equitum de comitatu Eboracensis: qui cum Edwardo primo Rege, Stipendia merebant, in Scotia, et aliibi’.
ff. 46v-47r: Full-page illustrations of William the Conqueror granting Alan Rufus [Alan le Roux] the Honour of Richmond, with a copy of the charter; entitled: ‘In an old Booke of Richmondshire’ [perhaps copied from the Beauchamp Pageant].
ff. 48r-59v: Arms taken from the Visitation of Yorkshire, Robert Glover (b. 1543/1544, d. 1588), Herald of Somerset, with additional notes; entitled: ‘Armes taken out of Churches and houses in the tyme of Yorkshires Visitacion Anno Domini 1584’.
ff. 60r-65r: Arms taken from the Visitation of Yorkshire, Robert Glover (b. 1543/1544, d. 1588), Herald of Somerset, with additional notes; entitled: ‘Armes taken out of Churches and houses in the tyme of Yorkeshires Visitacion. Anno. 1585’.
Decoration:
Coats of arms, tricked, in brown ink throughout the manuscript; full-page drawings of William the Conqueror granting Alan Rufus the Honour of Richmond in brown ink (ff. 46v-47r).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002046917", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 1088: An English heraldic manuscript" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046917 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 1088 : An English heraldic manuscript - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[1088]/040-002046917
- 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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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 295 x 190 mm.
Foliation: ff. 1* + 65 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end); 2 between f. 40 and f. 41; 10 between f. 45 and f. 46; 1 between f. 47 and f. 48; 28 unfoliated blank paper leaves after f. 65.
Script: 17th-century script.
Binding: British Museum in-house.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Sir Christopher Hilliard [Hildyard], owned ff. 1-39 in c. 1599: his name inscribed in a note recording his gift of the manuscript to John Cooper (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 190).
Robert Glover (b. 1544, 1588), Portcullis Pursuivant and Somerset Pursuivant, owned ff. 48-65: according to a memorandum dated 30 Augustus 1585 on f. 63v: ‘These Armes graven and enamelled in Silver were shewed unto mee – Somerset by Mr Thomas Wentworth of Elmsall at Pomfret [Pontifract] on Munday the xxxth day of August Anno domini 1585 (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), pp. 165-66).
John Cooper, owned in (?) 1651: his ownership inscription with a note recording the gift of this manuscript to him from Sir Christopher Hildyard on f. 1*recto: ‘Liber Johannis Cooper – Ex dono Christoferi Hildyard militis’ (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 111); the date is erased but seems to read ‘1651’.
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. 544.
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