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Harley MS 1105
- Record Id:
- 040-002046934
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046934
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x000263
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1105
- Title:
- Grants of heraldic arms and crests passed by several Kings of Arms
- Scope & Content:
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Heraldic book written and tricked by John Withie (1593-c. 1678), arms painter.
f. 1*: Title written by John Withie, ‘Coats & Crests passed by severall King of Armes’ (f. 1*). On the same folio is the inscription, ‘No. 52. Guifts’.
ff. 1-14: Arms and crests of many families, some granted by Robert Cooke, Clarenceux, Thomas Hawley, Clarenceux, William Flower, Norroy, Sir William Segar, Garter, Sir John Burrough, Norroy, Sir Richard St George, Clarenceux, Sir William Dethick, Garter, William Camden, Clarenceux, Sir Henry St George, Norroy, Thomas Preston, Ulster, Arthur Squibb, Clarenceux, Edward Walker, Garter. Folios 13v-14v consist of empty shields.
ff. 15-16: Arms or Crests, granted probably by Sir Edward Bysshe, then Garter, 1647-1664.
ff. 16v-21: Arms or crests granted in several years after the Restoration, 1661-1671.
ff. 22v-35: Coats and crests passed by William Segar, when he was Norroy, and later Garter, 1602-1634. Folios 32-35 consist of empty shields.
f. 36: Arms and crests of the 15 knights made by Oliver Cromwell, when he dined at Guildhall, 1653.
ff. 37v-50: Arms or crests granted to various people since the Restoration. Folios 43v-50 consist of blank shields.
ff. 51-53: Various coats of arms with gryphons for their crests, some finely drawn.
ff. 54v-58r: Coats and crests passed by Sir John Boroughs, Norroy, and later Garter.
ff. 59v-60r: A few coats passed by William Dugdale, Norroy.
ff. 60v-75: Blank shields, some inked some pricked out in pencil.
ff. 76-84r: Alphabetical table of surnames mentioned in the volume.
f. 84v: Some heraldic mottoes in Latin and English.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002046934", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 1105: Grants of heraldic arms and crests passed by several Kings of Arms" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046934 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 1105 : Grants of heraldic arms and crests passed by several Kings of Arms - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[1105]/040-002046934
- 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: 320 x 240 mm.
Foliation: f. 1*, 1-20, 20*, 21, 21*, 22-38, 38*, 39-55, 55*, 65-84 folios (total 89 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. 1105.
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)
- Names:
- Withie, John, arms painter, 1593-c 1678