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Harley MS 1094
- Record Id:
- 040-002046923
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046923
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x000258
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1094
- Title:
- Copies of Visitations of Northamptonshire and Rutlandshire by John Withie
- Scope & Content:
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Heraldical book copied and drawn by John Withie (1593-c. 1678), arms painter. Includes copies of the Visitation book of Northamptonshire and Rutlandshire 1618 and 1619, with numerous additions not found in other copies, and incorporating information from an earlier Visitation, probably the Visitation of 1566 by William Harvey, Clarenceux.
Includes:
f. 1**: Title page: ‘The Visitation of Northamptonshiere and Rutlandsheire, made and taken by Augustine Vincent Rouge-Rose, Marshall and Deputie to William Camden Esq. Clarenceux King of Armes, of the South, East, & West Parts of the Realme of England, from the River Trent, Anno Domini 1618 and 1619, with The Visitation made Anno Domini 15 ....’ Signed John Withie.
f. 1***: Letter from Thomas Lord Brudenell to John Withie, noting some errors in this book.
ff. 34-37: Arms and pedigree of Brudenell.
f. 178: Augustine Vincent’s instruction to Laurence Makepeace of Sulgrave, to cease using the arms he had usurped, or any others, pending a decision by the Earl Marshall. 24 December 1619.
ff. 235-252: Pedigrees and arms registered at the Visitation of Rutlandshire, 1618.
ff. 253-254: Pedigree of Rudd of Northamptonshire.
f. 255: Pedigree of Russell of Northamptonshire.
ff. 256-259: Arms of the Huntingdonshire gentry registered at the Visitation of 1624, with a table of them prefixed.
ff. 260-265: Alphabetical table of the several families mentioned in the preceding Visitations of Northamptonshire and Rutlandshire; at the end.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002046923", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 1094: Copies of Visitations of Northamptonshire and Rutlandshire by John Withie" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046923 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 1094 : Copies of Visitations of Northamptonshire and Rutlandshire by John Withie - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[1094]/040-002046923
- 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: 310 x 250 mm.
Foliation: 1*, 1**, 1***, 1-268 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: 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. 1094.
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. 311, 356-357.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)