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Harley MS 1158

Record Id:

040-002046987

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002046987

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x000298

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 1158

Title:

Copies from the Yearbooks of Edward II and Edward III

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-5r: A list of the names of sheriffs of Lancashire (Henry II-17th year of the reign of James I).

ff. 6r-22r: Coats of arms (16 to page) of Lancashire families, organised alphabetically.

ff. 22*verso-160v: Pedigrees of Lancashire families copied from the Visitation of Lancashire of 1567 by William Flower (b. 1497/98, d. 1588), Norroy King of Arms, and Richard St George (b. 1554/5, d. 1635), Norroy and Clarenceux King of Arms; with additions up to 1635.

ff. 161r-162r: A table of contents with surnames of families included in this manuscript.

The manuscript contains several later additions:

f. 1*recto: A note ‘Compare MS Harl. 2086’; added in the (?) 18th century.

ff. 163v-165v: Additional notes and genealogies (the family ‘Bolde’); added in the 17th century; f. 164r also features a letter in English, beginning: ‘Worthy Syr’.

Decoration:

Coats of arms, tricked, in brown ink throughout the manuscript. A crest of a hare rampant in colours (f. 44v). Drawings of a lion rampant and a unicorn rampant in brown ink; and a lion rampant and a (?) griffon rampant in prencil (f. 1*recto); a peacock in pencil (f. 163r); and a dog in brown ink (f. 163v).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002046987

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 1158 : Copies from the Yearbooks of Edward II and Edward III

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[1158]/040-002046987

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:

1625

End Date:

1649

Date Range:

2nd quarter of the 17th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: 300 x 190 mm.

Foliation: 1* + 22* + 165 (+ 5 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 5 at the end); 1 unfoliated paper leaf between f. 22 and f. 22*; 1 unfoliated paper pastedown (coat of arms) on f. 78r; f. 164 and f. 165 are fragmentary paper foldouts.

Script: 17th-century script.

Binding: British Museum in-house; gilt fore-edge.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

Jacob Chaloner (b. 1586, d. 1631), son of Thomas Chaloner, heraldic painter: a transcript by him with name inscribed [erased] on f. 163v (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 100).

William Shires (fl. c. 1711), arms painter of Southwark: probably bought from him by Harley; a receipt for books bought of Shires, signed by him, is dated 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:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), I (1808), p. 360.

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. 566.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Places:

England