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Harley MS 1389
- Record Id:
- 040-002047218
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002047218
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x00037f
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1389
- Title:
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Alphabetical tables of English pedigrees
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1v-74v: Alphabetical tables of surnames of families mentioned in other manuscripts (perhaps other unidentified Harleian manuscripts).
ff. 75r-80r: The ‘Genealogie of the Ancient and Illustrious ffamuly [sic] of the Montacutes alias Montagues. Lords. and Kings of Man, Earles of Salisbury Manchester and Sandwiche. and Barons Mountague of Boughton and also Nevilles, Marquess Montacutes and Poole Lord Browne, Lord and Viscount Montacutes Collected and extracted out of Letters Pattents writts of Summons History and other Authenticke Evidences and Compossed by John Tilston Gent. Anno 1670' (in English and Latin). According to the Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, II (1808), p. 21, this pedigree was copied by John Saunders.
ff. 80v-82v: The ‘Auncient and right worshipfull descent of Sir Harbottle Grimston of Bradfeild in the County of Essex Knight and Baronett continued in a lineall Stemm from the worshipfull Sylvester Grimston of Grimston in the County of York Esquire who did homage to William the Conqueror for Grimston Hoxton Fonsted and other his lands there to hold of the Lord Roos as of his Signiorie and Mannor of Roos in Holderness which Lord Roos was Chamberlain of the Kings houshold in the line of William the Conqueror Anno Domini 1006’ (in English and Latin, with blazons of coats of arms in French heraldic terminology). According to the Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, II (1808), p. 21, this pedigree was copied by John Saunders.
Decoration:
The outlines of a coat of arms in brown ink (f. 1r). Heraldic labels (brisures) to indicate difference among male descendants in the pedigree on ff. 75r-80r. Coats of arms and crests, tricked, drawn in brown ink in the pedigree on ff. 80v-82v.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002047218", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 1389: Alphabetical tables of English pedigrees" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002047218 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 1389 : Alphabetical tables of English pedigrees - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[1389]/040-002047218
- 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:
- 1665
- End Date:
- 1675
- Date Range:
- c 1670
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 335 x 215 mm.
Foliation: ff. 83 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end); 1 unfoliated blank paper leaf between f. 45 and f. 46; f. 46 and f. 47; f. 56 and f. 57.
Script: 17th-century script.
Binding: British Museum in-house.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
John Spicer (fl. 1680s): appears to have owned the manuscript (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 311).
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), II (1808), p. 21.
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. 395.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- England