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Harley MS 1091
- Record Id:
- 040-002046920
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046920
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x000255
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1091
- Title:
- Devonshire heraldry book
- Scope & Content:
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Devonshire arms and pedigrees, chiefly copied by Jacob Chaloner (1586-1631), arms painter, from the Visitation of Devonshire 1564, by William Harvey, with additions by John Saunders (died c. 1687).
Includes:
ff. 2-3r: Translation of the patent of King James I, creating Sir Thomas Ridgeway Knight and Baronet, Baron of Gallen-Ridgeway in the Kingdom of Ireland, bearing teste, 25 May, anno regni 14. By John Saunders.
ff. 3v-4: Epitaph from the tomb of Thomas Ridgeway Esq in Latin and English. By John Saunders.
ff. 5-7: Translation of the patent of King James I creating the above mentioned Lord of Gallen-Ridgeway, Earl of Londonderry, Ireland. 23 August anno regni 20. By John Saunders.
ff. 8-24: Arms of Devonshire gentry condensed into an alphabet by Jacob Chaloner, with most of the family names missing from the shields.
ff. 25-126: Arms and pedigrees from the Visitation book of Devonshire taken by William Harvey, Clarenceux King of Arms, 1564, done by Jacob Chaloner, with additions by John Saunders and others.
ff. 129v-133v, 136r, 137: Arms of Devonshire gentry in blazon, by John Saunders.
ff. 134-135: Alphabetical table to the pedigrees mentioned in the visitation of Devonshire, collected by Jacob Chaloner, with additions by John Saunders.
f. 136v: Confirmation of the arms and grant of a crest to George Peard of Stapelford, Devonshire, by William Camden Clarenceux, Dated 12 May 1606.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002046920", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 1091: Devonshire heraldry book" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046920 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 1091 : Devonshire heraldry book - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[1091]/040-002046920
- 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: 315 x 250 mm.
Foliation: 1*-3*, 1-4, 4*, 5-25, 25*, 26-87, 87*, 88-110, 110*, 111-137 (total 144 folios).
Binding: British Library in-house binding, half leather.
- Custodial History:
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Former owner: Jacob Chaloner (1586-1631), arms painter (Wright, Fontes Harleiani, p. 100).
Former owner: John Saunders (died c. 1687), arms painter (Wright, Fontes Harleiani, p. 297).
Former owner: John Spicer (Wright, Fontes Harleiani, p. 311).
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.
- 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. 1091.
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. 100, 297, 311)
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Chaloner, Jacob, arms painter, 1586-1631
Saunders, John, arms painter, fl 1651-1687