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Harley MS 1426

Record Id:
040-002047256
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
040-002047256
MDARK:
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LARK:
SLARK:
Format:
ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1426
Title:

Achievements of English families

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 2r-32v, 35r-111r: The achievements of the English nobility from the time of James I or Charles I, with mottoes in Latin and French.

f. 33v: The arms, and descents of noble persons written and painted circularly, and concentring on William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke.

f. 34r: Three rows of ‘creasts belongyng to the erle of pembroke’.

ff. 111v-112r: An imperfect table of family names included in this manuscript.

Decoration:

Achievements drawn and tricked in brown ink, occasionally with colour (ff. 8r, 11v, 12v, 14r, 26v, 30r). A large full-page circle with coats of arms in colours (f. 33v).

Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Harley Collection
Hierarchy Tree:
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Hierarchy Record Ids:
032-002045828
040-002047256
Is part of:
Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

 

Harley MS 1426 : Achievements of English families
Hierarchy:
032-002045828[1427]/040-002047256
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:
1620
End Date:
1634
Date Range:
c 1625-c 1629
Era:
CE
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User Conditions:
Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: 305 x 205 mm.

Foliation: ff. 112 (+ 6 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 5 at the end); 1 unfoliated paper pastedown (coat of arms) on f. 30r. ff. 4, 9, 11, 14, 15, 16, 19-21, 27, 29, 34, 37, 41, 42, 47, 48, 54, 63, 65, 70, 73, 78, 82, 88, 91, 93, 95, 97, 98, 100-105, 109-111are smaller paper leaves, most of which are mounted onto paper guards. f. 33 is a folded sheet mounted onto a paper guard. f. 52 is a paper strip. ff. 57, 81, 86 have paper foldouts at their lower margins; f. 64 at its upper margin.

Script: 17th-century script.

Binding: British Museum in-house; re-bound in 1967.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

? Jacob Chaloner (b. 1586, d. 1631), son of Thomas Chaloner, heraldic painter: perhaps wrote part of the manuscript (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 100).

John Withie (b. 1593, d. ? 1678), arms painter for the College of Arms, copied and painted the manuscript in about 1641 (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:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), II (1808), p. 48.

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