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Harley MS 1864
- Record Id:
- 040-002047695
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002047695
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000709.0x000174
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1864
- Title:
- Armorial of Knights of the Order of the Garter
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
f. 1v: Dedication of the manuscript by Sir William Dethick (b. 1543, d. 1612) to Queen Elizabeth I, dated 1588, beginning: 'Serenissima, Augustissima, et ubiuis longe Potentissima Regina'.
f. 2r: The achievement of King Henry V, with above: 'Elizabetha potens, iam regnans pace Brytannis: Elizabetha potens: Lustra revoluat illis'.
f. 2v: List of Knights of the Order of the Garter in the first year of the reign of King Henry V, entitled: 'Anno primo Regis Henrici Quinti Sede Militum in Phano Castelli Windesorensis sic conspiciuntur'.
ff. 3r-15r: Full-page coats of arms, circumscribed by the Garter, with the order's motto ('Honi soit qui mal y pense) inscribed in gold.
The manuscript contains a later addition:
f. [18]v (upside down in the lower left corner): Inscribed: 'Mr Smith left hand middle'; added in the 18th century (probably an instruction to the binder).
Decoration:
26 full-page drawings of coats of arms in colours and gold with crest and garter by Sir William Dethick (see the Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts (1808), III, pp. 271); including Henry V (f. 2r), emperor Sigismund (f. 3r), John, king of Portugal (f. 3v), John, king of Denmark (f. 4r), Philip, duke of Burgundy (f. 4v) [etc.]. Capitals in gold.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002047695", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 1864: Armorial of Knights of the Order of the Garter" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002047695 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 1864 : Armorial of Knights of the Order of the Garter - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[1866]/040-002047695
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- French
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1587
- End Date:
- 1587
- Date Range:
- 1587
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 165 x 170 mm.
Foliation: ff. 15 (+ 9 unfoliated paper flyleaves, 1 parchment flyleaf, and 2 paper flyleaves at the beginning + 2 unfoliated paper leaves, 1 parchment leaf, and 10 paper leaves at the end); interleaved with paper throughout. Script: Humanistic cursive.
Script: Humanistic cursive; written by the calligrapher Peter Bale (bap. 1547, d. ? 1610) according to the Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts (1808), III, p. 271.
Binding: Red velvet binding with brown leather attached to the spine; red velvet endleaves.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England (? London).
Provenance
Sir William Dethick (b. 1543, d. 1612), herald and antiquary, Garter king of arms 1586-1606: presented as a New Year's gift to Elizabeth I on 1 January 1588 (recorded in a New Year's Gift Roll in Lansdowne Roll 17; see also the Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts (1808), III, p. 271, and Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 130).
Elizabeth I (b. 1533, d. 1603), queen of England 1558-1603: presented by Sir William Dethick in 1588, according to a dedication to her on f. 1v (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 143).
William Laud (b. 1573, d. 1645), bishop of Bath and Wells 1626-1628, archbishop of Canterbury 1633: inscribed 'W. Bath Wells', c. 1626-1628 on f. 2r (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 216).
'Hancocke': owned the manuscript according to the Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts (1808), III, p. 271 (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 178).
Henry Worsley (b. 1675, d. 1741), scholar and manuscript collector, envoy at the Court of Portugal (1714-21) and governor of Barbados (1721-31): donated by him to Robert Harley together with other manuscripts from Worsley's collection (now Harley 1586-1747, 1811, 1812) before December 1712 (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 361).
Humfrey Wanley (b. 1672, d. 1726), Old English scholar, palaeographer, and librarian of Robert and Edward Harley, earls of Oxford (see Wright, Fontes Harleaini (1972), pp. 341-42).
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), pp. 271-272.
George Gatfield, Guide to Printed Books and Manuscripts Relating to English and Foreign Heraldry and Genealogy (London: Mitchell and Hughes, 1892), p. 254.
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, 143, 178, 216, 341-44, 361.
- 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 - Places:
- England
London, England