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Harley MS 1116

Record Id:

040-002046945

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002046945

MDARK:

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LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 1116

Title:

An English heraldic manuscript

Scope & Content:

Contents:

f. 2r: ‘The copy of a dyde taken oute of the Evidences of thomas wolley of hamsted in the counte of Staffordshire Anno 1563’.

ff. 3v-4r: Full-page drawings of a seven-headed dragon and St Michael the Archangel.

ff. 5r-12v: Empty coats of arms (9 per page) in brown ink, circumscribed by the Garter

ff. 13r-15v: An alphabetic index of surnames of families included in this manuscript.

ff. 16r-29r: Coats of arms (16 per page), tricked, in brown ink, entitled: ‘Thesse Armes geven syns the tyme of henry the vth and in his tyme’ [going up to the reign of Henry VIII] .

ff. 29v-[29e]verso: Outlines coats of arms (16 per page) in brown ink; unfinished.

ff. 30r-38r: Copies of confirmations of arms and crests by officers of arms, in English and French, with tricked coats of arms, most are dated between 1560 and 1581.

ff. 38v-69v: A collection of dockets of grants and confirmations of arms, in English and French, with tricked coats of arms.

ff. 70r-73v: Dockets of grants made during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I by officers of arms.

ff. 74r-82r: A collection of coats of arms (9 per page), tricked, granted or confirmed during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I.

The manuscript contains a later addition:

f. 1r: Memorandi concerning a copy of this manuscript, beginning: ‘Memorandum: out of this book are to be coppyed these following: double coates – single coates’; added in the 17th century.

Decoration:

1 full-page drawing of a seven-headed dragon, missing three heads, in brown ink (f. 3v); and 1 [on a paper pastedown] of St Michael the Archangel, carrying a shield and raising a sword, in colours (4r). Coats of arms, tricked, in brown ink throughout the manuscript.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002046945

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 1116 : An English heraldic manuscript

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[1116]/040-002046945

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English
French

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1575

End Date:

1599

Date Range:

4th quarter of the 16th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: 295 x 200 mm.

Foliation: ff. 38* + 39* + 42* + 48* + 82 (+ 6 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end); 1 unfoliated paper leaf between f. 1 and f. 2; f. 2 and f. 3; f. 4 and f. 5; f. 45 and f. 46; f. 69 and f. 70; 2 between f. 12 and f. 13; 3 between f. 43 and f. 44; 5 between f. 29 and f. 30 [ff. [29a]-[29e]; 1 paper pastedown on f. 4r (St Michael the Archangel); paper pastedowns of coats of arms on ff. 35r, 38r, 38*recto, 39*recto [2x], 42*recto [2x], 48*recto; f. 42* is a paper strip.

Script: 16th-century script.

Binding: British Museum in-house.

Custodial History:

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:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), I (1808), pp. 555-56.

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