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Harley MS 1140
- Record Id:
- 040-002046969
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046969
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x000286
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1140
- Title:
- Herefordshire heraldry compiled by William Penson
- Scope & Content:
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Collection of Herefordshire heraldic material written and tricked by William Penson, Lancaster Herald.
Contents:
ff. 1*r-2*v: Notes relating to eminent persons of Herefordshire, collected from Holinshead’s Chronicle.
f. 2*v: Arms of the City and See of Hereford, in blazon.
ff. 1-108: Pedigrees of Herefordshire families, with arms and other notes; which seem to be a collection of Penson’s own making rather than a copy from any Visitation, by reason of variety of dates.
ff. 109v-111; 113r-115: Arms of Herefordshire families.
f. 112: Knights in the County of Hereford in the time of Edward I, with arms in blazon.
ff. 117-121: Arms of the gentry of Herefordshire, in blazon.
f. 122: Notes concerning some of the Mortimers, etc. buried in the Abbey of Wigmore.
f. 123r: Notes concerning the family of Mylborne, Cornewall and Blacket.
ff. 123v-126r: Alphabetical table of surnames.
f. 126v: Arms of Robert Pye.
127v: Sketch of lion rampant, pen and ink.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002046969", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 1140: Herefordshire heraldry compiled by William Penson" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046969 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 1140 : Herefordshire heraldry compiled by William Penson - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[1140]/040-002046969
- 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:
- 1640
- Date Range:
- Early 17th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 305 x 235 mm.
Foliation: 1*-2*, 127 folios (total 129 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: William Shires, arms painter of Southwark (Wright, Fontes Harleiani, p. 304).
Former owner: William Penson (d. 1637), Chester Herald 1603, Lancaster Herald 1613 (Autogr. Heraldic colls) (Wright, Fontes Harleiani, p. 273).
- 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. 1140.
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. 273, 304.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Penson, William, herald, d 1637