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Harley MS 1100
- Record Id:
- 040-002046929
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046929
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x00025e
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1100
- Title:
- Copy of the Visitation book of Warwickshire 1619
- Scope & Content:
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Copy of the Visitation book of Warwickshire, 1619, made by John Saunders (d. c. 1687), arms painter. With a number of pen and ink studies of the human form, possibly by John Saunders.
Includes:
f. 1*. Title: ‘The visitation of the County of Warwickshire taken by Sampson Lennard, Blewmantle [etc.]’. Rough sketch of a woman’s face below.
f. 62v: Drawing of the arms of the city of Coventry.
f. 63r: Drawing of the seal of the borough of Warwick.
f. 63v: Drawing of the seal of the town of Sutton-Coldfield.
f. 68: Large pedigree of Throckmorton. 580 x 890 mm, folded.
f. 70: Drawing of the seal of the town of Stratford upon Avon.
f. 125r: Arms of Middlemore, impaling, or impaled by other families.
f. 125v: Two coats of Smith of Warwickshire.
ff. 128v-130r: Alphabetical table of the surnames in the preceding pedigrees.
ff. 126-136: Various pen and ink studies, many signed with the monogram ‘IS’, possibly by John Saunders. Made at the end of the book, turned. Includes unfinished sketch of a coat of arms, head and shoulders studies of a boy, girls, men and women; hands; a dromedary; full length studies of a peasant, soldiers, and an actor; and horses and donkeys.
ff. 137-138: Painted studies of flowers: rose and strawberry (f. 137), rose and carnation (f. 138).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002046929", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 1100: Copy of the Visitation book of Warwickshire 1619" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046929 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 1100 : Copy of the Visitation book of Warwickshire 1619 - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[1100]/040-002046929
- 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:
- 1630
- End Date:
- 1670
- Date Range:
- Mid 17th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 320 x 240mm. f. 68 folded (580 x 890 mm unfolded).
Foliation: 1*, 1-7, 7*, 8-67, 67*, 68-138 folios (total 140 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).
- 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. 1100.
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.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Saunders, John, arms painter, fl 1651-1687