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Harley MS 1390
- Record Id:
- 040-002047219
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002047219
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x000380
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1390
- Title:
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Pedigrees and coats of arms of Bedfordshire families
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-29r: Descents and arms of Bedfordshire families, dated to 1582 and 1583; with continuations and additions by John Saunders (the latest date is 1687); featuring an epitaph poem for ‘John Welles late of Heath Esquire who departed this life in the year of our Lord God 1645’; commissioned by ‘John Welles esquire his second Sonne – 1656’, beginning: ‘Marble nor [?] Tuch nor Alablaster can / Reveale the worth of the long buryed man / For oft wee see mens goods when they are gone / Doe pious deeds when they themselves did none / Mine whilst I liv’d my goodness did expresse / Tis not Inscriptions makes them more or lesse / In Christ I hope to live amongest the Just / Man is but Grass all must to wormes and dust’.
f. 37r: A list of the names of sheriffs of Bedfordshire (‘Vicemoites in Comitatu Bedfordiae’), featuring the dates 1646 and 1654.
ff. 31r-33r Coats of arms with crests (6-9 per page) of Bedfordshire gentry.
f. 34r: Confirmations of pedigrees and arms by officers of arms Gilbert Dethick, Robert Cooke, Harvey, and William Harvey.
f. 35r: A copy of the notes on f. 34r.
ff. 36r-39r: An alphabetical index of family names included in this manuscript.
ff. 40r-41v: An alphabetical index of family names included in this manuscript.
Decoration:
Coats of arms, tricked, drawn in brown ink throughout the manuscript.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002047219", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 1390: Pedigrees and coats of arms of Bedfordshire families" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002047219 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 1390 : Pedigrees and coats of arms of Bedfordshire families - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[1390]/040-002047219
- 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:
- 1682
- End Date:
- 1692
- Date Range:
- c 1687
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 330 x 195 mm.
Foliation: ff. 25b + 26b + 41 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end); f. 25b and f. 26b follow f. 25(a) and f. 26(a) respectively; each leaf has been mounted onto a paper guard; and has a white strip of paper attached to its outer margin.
Script: 17th-century script.
Binding: British Museum in-house.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
John Saunders (d. c. 1687), Deputy of the Ward of St Dunstans in the West, Master of the Painter-Stainers Company 1680, compiled the manuscript c. 1656 (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 297.
John Spicer: acquired from John Withie (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