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Harley MS 1193
- Record Id:
- 040-002047022
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002047022
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x0002bb
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1193
- Title:
- Copy of the Visitation Book of Buckinghamshire
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-91r: A copy of the Visitation Book of Buckinghamshire made by John Philipot (b. 1588, d. 1645), Somerset Herald, and William Ryley (d. 1667), Bluemantle Pursuivant in 1634; according to Humfrey Wanley, Keeper of the Harleian Libary, the copy was made by Henry Parker and his apprentices, supplementing it with a drawing of the seal of the town of Chepping Wycombe, Buckinghamshire (f. 12r), church notes featuring drawings of monuments and coats of arms (ff. 10v, 32v-33r [‘Coates taken at Goathurst the 31st of July Anno Domini 1634’]) and a story about the Hampden family (ff. 17r-17v).
ff. 92r-93v: An alphabetical index of surnames of families included in this manuscript.
Decoration:
Coats of arms, seals, and monuments drawn and tricked in brown ink throughout the manuscript.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002047022", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 1193: Copy of the Visitation Book of Buckinghamshire" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002047022 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 1193 : Copy of the Visitation Book of Buckinghamshire - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[1193]/040-002047022
- 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:
- 1629
- End Date:
- 1639
- Date Range:
- c 1634
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 325 x 215 mm.
Foliation: ff. 93 (+ 14 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end).
Script: 17th-century script.
Binding: British Museum in-house; gilt fore-edge.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Henry Parker (fl. mid-17th century), arms painter, copied the manuscript (according to Humfrey Wanley in the Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts (1808), p. 588): his collection was bought from his son by William Shires (not listed under his entry in Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), pp. 267-68).
William Shires (fl. c. 1711), arms painter of Southwark: 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), p. 588.
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