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Harley MS 1499

Record Id:

040-002047329

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002047329

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Harley MS 1499

Title:

English heraldic collection, including royal coats of arms; genealogies of English noble families; Thomas Tonge, Visitation of the Northern Counties, 1530; tracts on heraldic matters; a transcript of Domesday Book relating to Yorkshire

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff 1r-1v: 'A Table of the Hole Contentes of the boke Both of the Petygrees and also the Geanologees And of wych lefe every oon doth stand'.

ff. 2r-4r: Arms of kings, beginning with the 'arma Christi', and the attributed arms of the Three Magi and Prester John.

ff. 4v-5r: Table of contents.

f. 5v: Colour drawings of King William the Conqueror and Queen Matilda of Flanders, with six children: Robert, William, Henry, Adela ['Ella'], 'Gundreda', and Constance; Gundreda is identified as Gundred [Gundrada] (d. 1095), the wife of William de Warenne, 1st Earl of Surrey.

ff. 7v-8r: Outline drawings in black ink of kings and queens, unidentified.

ff. 9v-19r: Genealogies of English noble families (for further details, see A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts, II (1808), pp. 78-80).

ff. 20v-50r: Thomas Tonge. (d. 1536), Visitation of the Northern Counties, 1530, beginning: 'Be yt notid that Norrey kyng of armes of the North cuntrey begun hys visitacioun at Syr Brian Stapultons knyght of Notynghamshyre the vijth daie of August Anno domini Mlo CCCCC xxxo'; and with a title on f. 22r: 'Here begynneth the visitacion in yorke shire made by Thomas Tonge alias Norrey kyng of armes of the north parties'. Alongside the arms of nobility, the Visitation Book includes accounts of the foundations of monasteries with their arms, including Lenton Priory, Rufford Abbey, Worksop Priory, Marton Priory, Newburgh Priory, Rievaulx Abbey, Whitby Abbey, Gisborough Priory, Durham Priory, Tynemouth Priory, Egglestone Abbey, Easby Abbey, Jervaulx Abbey, Fountains Abbey, St Mary's Abbey (York), Kirkham Priory, Byland Abbey, Selby Abbey, Malton Priory, Welbeck Abbey, Monk Bretton Priory, Nostell Priory, Kirkstall Abbey, Sawley Abbey, Bolton Abbey, Whalley Abbey, Cockersand Abbey, Cartmel Priory, Furness Abbey, Calder Abbey, St Bees Priory, Holm Cultram Abbey, and Carlisle Priory.

ff. 51v-69v: Genealogies of English noble families (for further details, see A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts, II (1808), pp. 78-80).

ff. 70v-72v: Tracts on heraldry in Latin, beginning: 'Jura debita et larigates appertinentia de antiqua consuetudine Armorum officialibus secundum morem et consuetudinem Anglie'.

ff. 73v-74r: Orders following from meeting by all the Kings of Arms in the Chapterhouse of Westminster, 19 November 1487; written in English.

f. 74r: 'Lyvery for the Kynges of Armes herauldes and purseuvantes at eche of the festes'; 'Lyveryes for the office of Armys in the tyme of the ryght excellent prynce kyng henry the vij'; signed 'Spelman'.

ff. 75v-84r: Genealogies of English noble families (see A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts, II (1808), pp. 78-80).

ff. 85v-86v: Transcripts of records concerning the Pateshull family, and the division of their estate among coheirs, 34 Edward III.

ff. 86v-88r: Genealogies of English noble families (for further details, see A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts, II (1808), pp. 78-80).

ff. 89v-90v: Memorandi concerning the 'Zowche'; written in French.

ff. 91v-92r: Genealogy of the 'la Marche' family.

ff. 92v-93r: Placita de Juratis es Assisis coram Justiciariis Itinerantibus in Com. Hereford. anno 20 R. Edw. I super Manerio de Wilton. quod petivit Rex versus Reginaldum Grey et Matildam uxorem ejus'.

ff. 93r-93v: 'The title of William Dacre Knyght Lord Graystoke and of William Grey lorde Grey of Wilton cosyne and heires generall of Richard late Erle of Kent to all Castelles, Lordshippes, Manors, landes, tenementes and other hereditamentes specified and wreten in a sedule herunto annexed'

ff. 94v-111v: Genealogies of English noble families (for further details, see A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts, II (1808), pp. 78-80).

ff. 112v-113r: 'Concessio Armorum ac Cristae, Waltero Champyon, per Gabrielem Comitem in Ortenburg, Legatum ut videtur Caesareum. dat. in Lundino Civitate Anglica, 20 die Marcii, 1527'.

f. 114v: First half of an indenture in Latin between Thomas Wriothesley (d. 1534), Garter King of Arms, with Thomas Benolt (d. 1534), Clarenceux King of Arms, about the arms of Geoffrey Chamber.

ff. 115v-136v: Genealogies of English noble families (for further details, see A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts, II (1808), pp. 78-80).

ff. 137r-140r: Transcript of Domesday Book relating to Yorkshire, copied by Scipio Le Squyer.

f. 141v: 'ffor the mariage of a great astate'.

f. 142r: Fragment of a genealogy of Dutton.

f. 142v: Alphabetical index of family names. Decoration:

Drawings of kings, queens, princes and princesses on ff. 5v-8r in colours and outlined in black ink. Coats of arms tricked in black ink throughout; but in colours on ff. 16v-17r, 83v-84r, 87v-88r.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

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Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 1499 : English heraldic collection, including royal coats of arms; genealogies of English noble families; Thomas Tonge, Visitation of…

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032-002045828[1500]/040-002047329

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English
French
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1525

End Date:

1535

Date Range:

c 1530

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: 400 x 280 mm.

Foliation: ff. 142 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end); 4 unfoliated blank paper leaves after f. 8; 1 after f. 10; 1 after f. 13; 8 after f. 17; 2 after f. 32; 11 after f. 50; 2 after f. 72; 1 after f. 74; 2 after f. 77; 33 after f. 84; 1 after f. 88; 9 after f. 90; 1 after f. 97; 1 after f. 113; 1 unfoliated paper pastedown on f. 140v; and 1 unfoliated modern paper pastedown on f. [ii]recto (bibliographical notes).

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

Binding: British Museum in-house; gold-tooled red half leather with the Harleian arms gold stamped on the outside cover; gilt fore edges.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

Sir Thomas Wriothesley (d. 1534), herald, produced the manuscript, except for ff. 137-140: the style and handwriting can be associated with his studio (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), pp. 363-64).

Scipio Le Squyer (1579-1659), Deputy Chamberlain of Records, antiquary, wrote ff. 137r-140r: his name inscribed on f. 140r (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 222.

John Bagford (b. 1650/41, d. 1715), bookseller and antiquary, owned ff. 137-140: his inscription on a paper pastedown on f. 140v: 'Copy of some part of Doomesday booke written out by one Le Squire & dat. mihi 1692 per Johannem Bagford' (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 59.

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), pp. 78-80.

Thomas Tonge, Heraldic Visitation of the Northern Counties in 1530, ed. by W. Hylton Dyer Longstaffe, Publications of the Surtees Society, 41 (1863).

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. 59, 222, 363-64.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Tonge, Thomas, Norroy King at Arms and Clarenceux King of Arms, d 1534
Wriothesley, Thomas, Garter King of Arms, c. 1460-1534

Places:

England