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Harley MS 1480
- Record Id:
- 040-002047310
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002047310
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x0003db
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1480
- Title:
- A copy of the Visitation Book of Oxfordshire of 1634
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
f. 1*recto: A title inscription: ‘Oxfordshire 1634’.
ff. 2*recto-3*verso: An alphabetical index of family names included in this manuscript.
ff. 1r-64r: A copy of the Visitation Book of Oxfordshire made by John Philipot (b. 1588, d. 1645), Somerset Herald, and William Ryley (d. 1667), Bluemantle Pursuivant, for Sir Richard St George (1554/5-1635), Norroy King of Arms, and Sir John Borough (d. 1643), Garter Principal King of Arms, in 1634; opening with the achievement of the City of Oxford (with motto in Latin).
Decoration:
Achievement of Oxford, and coats of arms of Oxfordshire families with crests, tricked, drawn in brown ink throughout the manuscript.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002047310", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 1480: A copy of the Visitation Book of Oxfordshire of 1634" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002047310 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 1480 : A copy of the Visitation Book of Oxfordshire of 1634 - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[1481]/040-002047310
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1600
- End Date:
- 1699
- Date Range:
- 17th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 355 x 230 mm.
Foliation: ff. 1*-3* + 4* + 64 (+ 5 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 5 at the end); f. 4* is a small paper leaf inserted between f. 3 and f. 4; 3 unfoliated blank paper leaves between f. 3* and f. 1; 38 blank unfoliated paper leaves after f. 64
Script: 17th-century script.
Binding: British Museum in-house; gilt fore-edge.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
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:
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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. 70.
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. 397.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- England