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Harley MS 1403
- Record Id:
- 040-002047232
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002047232
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x00038d
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1403
- Title:
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Coats of arms of the Irish nobility
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
f. 1r: ‘A Booke of the Armes, Creasts, & Suporters, with the severall Quarterings of all the Nobility of Ireland in their sevrall ranks Collected together by me John Withie’.
ff. 2r-4r: A list of peerages included in this manuscript and the dates of their creations, going up to 1629.
ff. 5r-58r: Coats of arms with crowns, crests, supporters and mottoes (in Latin and French) of Irish nobility; some also contain added genealogical notes, the latest dated to 1655. The collection also includes two added leaves, including on f. 33r: a blazon of the achievement of Charles MacCarty, Viscount Muskerry (d. 1665), by Thomas Preston, Ulvester King of Arms (1633–1655), and signed by him with the date 21 September 1639; and on f. 12r: the name and titles ‘Richard Barry Lord Barry Barron of [...] and Orr[e]ry and Viscount Buttevant Earle of Barrymore – London 10 September 1645 Barrymore’; followed by the note: ‘The above said title was written by the said noble Earle of Barrymore with his owne hand being under age John Withie September 10 1645’.
The manuscript contains a later addition:
f. 1r: A title inscription: ‘Irish nobility’; added in the 17th century.
Decoration:
Full-page drawings of coats of arms, tricked, drawn in brown ink throughout the manuscript.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002047232", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 1403: Coats of arms of the Irish nobility" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002047232 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 1403 : Coats of arms of the Irish nobility - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[1403]/040-002047232
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
French
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1625
- End Date:
- 1660
- Date Range:
- c 1630-c 1655
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 315 x 195 mm.
Foliation: ff. 58 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 1 at the end); 7 unfoliated blank paper leaves between f. 14 and f. 15; 9 between f. 37 and f. 38; 38 after f. 58; 1 unfoliated paper pastedown (coat of arms) on f. 14r
Script: 17th-century script.
Binding: British Museum in-house.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
John Withie (b. 1593, d. ? 1678), arms painter for the College of Arms, produced the manuscript: identifies himself as author on f. 1r (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 357).
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. 30.
Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 311, 357, 397.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- England