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Harley MS 1106
- Record Id:
- 040-002046935
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046935
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x000264
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1106
- Title:
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The Visitation of Kent of 1619
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
f. 1r: A wisdom in Latin: 'Modica alteratio in membro principali magnam alterationem facit'; probably excerpted from John Guillim's A Display of Heraldrie (London: 1610).
ff. 1v-223r: A copy of the Visitation-Book of Kent by John Philipot (b. 1588, d. 1645), Rouge Dragon Pursuivant, in 1619; including the arms of Gravesend (f. 5v); the Deanery and Chapter of Canterbury Cathedral (f. 121v); drawings from gravestones on f. 42b recto (‘This is the true Modell of a very ould grave Stone in the quire of the Church of Minster in the Isle of Shepey’), and f. 42c recto (‘The true Coppie of the Gravestone of the Countess of Atholl, buried in the quire of Ashford Church in Kent’).
ff. 224r-226r: An alphabetical index of family names included in this manuscript.
The manuscript contains a later addition:
f. 227v: Sequences of numbers of (?) prices or payments; added in the 17th century.
Decoration:
Coats of arms, tricked, drawn in brown ink throughout the manuscript; a few in colours (ff. 46v-47r, 48v-49r, 51r-53r). Drawings of tombstones (ff. 42b recto, 42c recto), 1 in grey-silver paint. Pedigrees dawn with red ink throughout. Sketches of heraldic devices and a church bell added in brown ink on f. 227r.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002046935", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 1106: The Visitation of Kent of 1619" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046935 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 1106 : The Visitation of Kent of 1619 - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[1106]/040-002046935
- 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: 300 x 200 mm.
Foliation: ff. 42b + 42c + 227 (+ 5 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 5 at the end); ff. 42b and 42c are paper leaves; 2 unfoliated blank paper leaves between f. 121 and f. 122; 1 between f. 125 and f. 126; and f. 181 and f. 182.
Script: 17th-century script.
Binding: British Museum in-house.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
John Spicer (fl. 1680s): appears to have owned the manuscript (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 311).
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. 556.
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