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Harley MS 1405
- Record Id:
- 040-002047234
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002047234
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x00038f
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1405
- Title:
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English coats of arms
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
f. 1*recto: A list of places: ‘Oxford – Buckingham – Bedford – Hartfordsh[ire] – Essex – Norff[olk] – Suff[olk]’.
ff. 1r-1v: The arms of Gregory Payne, with the date 26 August 1675.
ff. 2r-5v: Coats of arms of Oxfordshire (12 per parge) dated to 1668; with a note on the arms and crest of John Hallaway of Oxford on ff. 4r-4v [with the date 1631].
ff. 6r-10r: Coats of arms of Buckinghamshire (12 per page) dated to 1669.
ff. 11r-12v: Coats of arms of Bedfordshire (12 per page) dated to 1669
f. 13r: A small paper featuring the red wax seal of ‘Mr Cobb of Bedford’.
ff. 14r-17v: Coats of arms of Hertfordshire (12 per page) dated to 1669.
ff. 18r-21r: An alphabetical index of family names included in this manuscript.
Decoration:
Coats of arms and crests tricked and drawn in brown ink throughout the manuscript.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002047234", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 1405: English coats of arms" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002047234 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 1405 : English coats of arms - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[1405]/040-002047234
- 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:
- 1668
- End Date:
- 1669
- Date Range:
- 1668-1669
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 320 x 200 mm.
Foliation: ff. 1* + 21 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 2 at the end); ff. 1*, 1, and 13 are small papers pasted onto a blank modern paper leaves; f. 4 is a small paper leaf; a red wax seal is attached to f. 13r; each leaf has been mounted onto a paper guard and has a white paper strip attached to its outer margin.
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, copied and painted the manuscript in about 1669 (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), p. 396.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- England