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Harley MS 1531
- Record Id:
- 040-002047361
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002047361
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000709.0x000026
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1531
- Title:
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Heraldic manuscript of Bedfordshire families
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
f. 1r: A note on the manuscript’s origin, beginning ‘The vissitation of Bedffordshire made in Anno 1566 per william harvey’; updated by ‘some of the same ffamilyes and labord pedegrees’; and added to ‘by me Richard Mundy’; followed by a note that the owner lent the book to the herald George Owen (b. c. 1598, d. 1665) and herald painter Henry Lilly (b. 1588/9, d. 1638) ‘when they went ire vissitation of this County in Anno 1634’.
ff. 2r-3v: A table of surnames of families recorded in the manuscript.
ff. 4r-5v: Coats of arms of Bedfordshire families.
ff. 6r-96v: The Visitation of Bedfordshire of 1566, containing genealogies and coats of arms (some of which are taken from churches); featuring an Epitaph in Luton parish church from c. 1480 on f. 21r, beginning ‘Jesu Christ most of myght / Have mercy on John le Wenlock knight’.
ff. 99r-179v: Richard Mundy, Collections of pegrees and arms of other Bedfordshire families; with additions from the visitation book of 1634.
ff. 181r-188v: An index of pedigrees and arms in the manuscript.
Decoration:
Numerous coats of arms drawn in black ink.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002047361", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 1531: Heraldic manuscript of Bedfordshire families" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002047361 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 1531 : Heraldic manuscript of Bedfordshire families - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[1532]/040-002047361
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- English
- Start Date:
- 1600
- End Date:
- 1649
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 17th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 305 x 190 mm.
Foliation: ff. 188 (+ 2 unfoliated paper leaves at he beginning + 3 at the end); 1 unfoliated paper pastedown on f. 109; 1 on f. 156 with a red wax seal; ff. 140, 143, and 178 are smaller pieces of paper mounted onto paper leaves; each leaf has been mounted onto a paper guard and, with the exception of f. 97 and f. 98, has a strip of paper on the outer margin as well.
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: Post-1600. British Museum in-house.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England.
Provenance:
Richard Mundy (fl. 1634), Painter-Stainer of (?) Bedfordshire: probably wrote ff. 2r-96v in the early 17th century and added ff. 99r-179v after 1634.
Giles Campion, Painter-Stainer, owned in the 17th century: inherited the books of Richard Mundy.
‘Mr Comyns’: purchased from Giles Campion (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 110)).
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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Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards, A New Index of Middle English Verse (London: The British Library, 2005), no. 1683.5/1.
A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), II (1808), p. 119.
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. 398.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)