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Harley MS 1135
- Record Id:
- 040-002046964
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046964
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x000281
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1135
- Title:
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A copy of the Visitation-book of Sussex of 1633-1634
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 3r-4r: An alphabetical index of the names of families included in this manuscript.
f. 4r: ‘Memorandum that the booke that this was transcribed by was part of Northamptsh. ad ffoll. […]’.
ff. 7r-: Pedigrees and coats of arms of the nobility and gentry of Sussex, copied from the Visitation-book of Sussex in 1633-1634 by John Philipot (b. 1588, d. 1645), Rouge Dragon Pursuivant, and by George Owen (b. c. 1598, d. 1665), preceded by a title-page: ‘A Visitation of Sussex Taken in the yeare 1633 and 1634 by Jo: Phillpott Somersett and Geo: Owen Yorke Heralde of Armes’; with later additions (e.g. a transcription dated to 1653/54 on f. 131v).
Decoration:
Coats of arms, tricked, drawn in brown ink throughout the manuscript.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002046964", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 1135: A copy of the Visitation-book of Sussex of 1633-1634" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046964 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 1135 : A copy of the Visitation-book of Sussex of 1633-1634 - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[1135]/040-002046964
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1645
- End Date:
- 1655
- Date Range:
- c 1650
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 295 x 195 mm.
Foliation: ff. 144 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 2 at the end); each bifolium has been mounted onto a paper guard; each leaf has a white strip of paper attached to its outer margin;
Script: 17th-century script.
Binding: British Museum in-house.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
William Shires (fl. c. 1711), arms painter of Southwark: perhaps part of the manuscripts that Fisher’s son sold to Shires (see the Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum (1808), III, p. 577); probably part of a parcel of books bought by Harley of Shires on 11 July 1711 (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 304).
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), pp. 558-59.
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. 392.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- England