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Harley MS 1183
- Record Id:
- 040-002047012
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002047012
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x0002b1
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1183
- Title:
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Robert Cooke, A Baronage of England from the Conquest
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-73r: Robert Cooke, Clarenceux King of Arms (1567-1592/3), A Baronage of England from the Conquest; with additions to 1607.
The manuscript contains a few later additions:
ff. 2*recto-3*recto: An index of surnames; added in the 17th century.
f. 3*v: The attributed arms for the British, Roman, Norman, Danish and Saxon kings of England, in colours: ‘Armes of the Briton Kings first inhabitors of this lande’; ‘Armes of the Romain kings Nexte after the Britons’; ‘Armes of the Norman Kinges of Englande’; ‘Armes of the Saxon Kinges Nexte after the Romains’; ‘Armes of the Danishe kings nexte afther the Saxons’; added in the 17th century.
Decoration:
Coats of arms in colours throughout the manuscript.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002047012", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 1183: Robert Cooke, A Baronage of England from the Conquest" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002047012 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 1183 : Robert Cooke, A Baronage of England from the Conquest - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[1183]/040-002047012
- 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:
- 1575
- End Date:
- 1624
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 360 x 235 mm.
Foliation: ff. 1*-3* + 76 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + at the end); 1 unfoliated paper pastedown on f. 1*recto (ownership note); ff. 67r and 68r (coats of arms).
Script: 16th- or 17th-century script.
Binding: Post-1600.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
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:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), p. 587.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)