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Harley MS 1415

Record Id:
040-002047244
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
040-002047244
MDARK:
ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x000399
LARK:
SLARK:
Format:
ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1415
Title:
Robert Glover, Visitation Book of Yorkshire (1584-85), and Visitation Book of Staffordshire (1583)
Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-96v: Robert Glover (b. 1543/4, d. 1588), Visitation Book of Yorkshire (1584), entitled: ‘The Booke of Entrances, made in the tyme of thevisitation of Yorkeshier, begone 1584, and continued, Anno Domini 1585 by Robert Glover, alias Somersett herald at Armes: Mareshall, and deputie to William Flowere Esquire, alias Norroy Kinge of Armes and principall herald, of the East West and North partes of the Realme of England, from the the river of Trent northward 1585’.

ff. 97r-104r: ‘Nomina et arma illorum Equitum de Comitatu Eboracensi, qui cum Edward 1 Rege stipendia merebant in Scotia, e alibi / Ex libro gloveri Somersett de Visitatione Com. Ebor. 1584-1585’.

f. 106r: A tract, entitled: ‘What to be perfourmed at a Herolds goinge in visitation’.

ff. 106r-135v: Robert Glover, Visitation Book of Staffordshire (1583), ‘The visitation of Stafford Shre made by Robert Glover, alias Somersett harold Marshall to Mr fflowre, alias Norreye kinge of Armes Anno Domini 1583’.

ff. 136r-138v: Alphabethical index of family names, entitled: ‘This is the Allphibett of Staffordshire’.

The manuscript contains a later addition:

f. 117v: A marginal note: ‘The heralt much to blame’; added in the (?) 17th century.

Decoration:

Coats of arms tricked in brown ink throughout the manuscript.

Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Harley Collection
Hierarchy Tree:
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Hierarchy Record Ids:
032-002045828
040-002047244
Is part of:
Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

 

Harley MS 1415 : Robert Glover, Visitation Book of Yorkshire (1584-85), and Visitation Book of Staffordshire (1583)
Hierarchy:
032-002045828[1415]/040-002047244
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:
1575
End Date:
1699
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century-4th quarter of the 17th century
Era:
CE
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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: Leaves of various sizes, mounted on guards and extended with white paper to fit a volume measuring 400 x 315 mm (text space: 360 x 265 mm).

Foliation: ff. 138 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end); 6 unfoliated paper leaves after f. 47; 9 after f. 104

Script: 16th- or 17th-century script.

Binding: British Museum in-house; purple half leather with the Harleian arms gold stamped on the outside covers; marbled endleaves.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

Sir William Dethick (b. c. 1542, d. 1612), Herald and Garter King of Arms: copied and tricked the larger part of the manuscript, according to Humfrey Wanley in the Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts (1808), III, pp. 37-38: ‘If the whole book was written by one man, I should be inclined rather to think it might be done by Sir William Dethick, who used to write the three several hands herein used than by any other’(see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 130).

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:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), pp. 37-38.

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. 130, 311.

Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Dethick, William, Knight, herald and antiquary, c 1542-1612,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000056128303
Glover, Robert, herald, genealogist and antiquarian, 1544-1588
Places:
England