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Harley MS 1111
- Record Id:
- 040-002046940
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046940
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x000269
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1111
- Title:
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Copy of William Harvey, Visitation Book of Wiltshire (1565), with original notes made by Harvey
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-6v: Valuation of the estates of Wiltshire gentry, organised according to hundreds; written about 1565.
ff. 7r-15v, 22r-26r: Original notebook of William Harvey (b. 1510, d. 1567), Clarenceux King of Arms, made in his Visitation of Wiltshire in 1565, recording the names and places of residence of the county's gentry.
ff. 16r-21r, 27r-27v: Entries of the names of persons in Wiltshire who appeared to William Harvey during his Visitation of Wiltshire, and disclaimed the title of 'Gentleman' to avoid public degradation, beginning with the 'hundredthe of Selkleighe'; beginning: 'Thomas Browne of Wynterborne bassett in the countie of Wiltes hath made his appearance before me Clarenceulx kinge of Armes and hath dysclaymed the name of a gentilman'; with the hand of William Harvey at the bottom of f. 17r and at the top of f. 17v: 'cleryd by me Clarencieulx'.
ff. 28r-93v: William Harvey, Visitation Book of Wiltshire (1565); copied in the 17th century by Jacob Chaloner, heraldic painter who was apprenticed to Randle Holme I in 1602, according to Humfrey Wanley, Keeper of the Harleian Library, in the Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts (1808), I, p. 554.
ff. 94r-95v: Arms of Wiltshire gentlemen; added by John Saunders (d. c. 1687), Master of the Painter-Stainers Company (1680), according to Humfrey Wanley in the Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts (1808), I, p. 554.
f. 96r: Descent and arms of Bennet from the Visitation Book of Wiltshire (1623) by Samson Lennard (d. 1633), Bluemantle pursuivant, as indicated by a note at the end: 'Produced in my visitation of Wiltshire 1623 and allowed Samson Lennard Blewmante'.
f. 96v: Coats of arms and crest of (?) 'Guie' of West Keynton in Wiltshire.
ff. 97r-97v: Alphabetical index of family names.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046940 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 1111 : Copy of William Harvey, Visitation Book of Wiltshire (1565), with original notes made by Harvey - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[1111]/040-002046940
- 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:
- 1560
- End Date:
- 1628
- Date Range:
- c 1565-c 1623
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 300 x 200 mm.
Foliation: ff. 97 (+ 9 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 5 at the end); 1 unfoliated blank paper leaf between f. 55 and f. 56.
Script: 16th- and 17th-century script.
Binding: British Museum in-house; gold tooled diced brown leather with the Harleian arms gold stamped on the outside covers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
John Spicer (fl. 1682), owned the manuscript: acquired from him for the Harleian Library (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. 554.
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:
- Harvey, William, Clarenceux King of Arms, 1510-1567,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000071058681
Lennard, Samson, Bluemantle Pursuivant, d 1633,
see also http://isni.org/isni/000000002831570X - Places:
- England