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Harley MS 1923
- Record Id:
- 040-002047754
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002047754
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000709.0x0001af
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1923
- Title:
- Dysgread Arfau, copied by Thomas Chaloner of Chester
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-1v: a 17th-century indenture.
f. 2r: a fragment of a personal accounts ledger titled 'Thursday' at the top.
ff. 3r-20v: Dysgread Arfau, a treatise on the practice of heraldry in Welsh, copied by Thomas Chaloner of Chester.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002047754", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 1923: Dysgread Arfau, copied by Thomas Chaloner of Chester" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002047754 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 1923 : Dysgread Arfau, copied by Thomas Chaloner of Chester - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[1925]/040-002047754
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Welsh
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1594
- End Date:
- 1594
- Date Range:
- 1594
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 210 x 150 mm.
Foliation: ff. 20 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + over 10 at the end).
Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house binding.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England (Chester).
Scribe:
Thomas Chaloner of Chester, his colophon (f. 20v).
Provenance:
?A member of the Holme family, Chester, arms painters and antiquaries: possibly acquired with other Holme manuscripts by Robert Harley in 1710 through the mediation of Francis Gastrell, bishop of Chester.
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 forms 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. 349.
Wright, Cyril Ernest, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 194-95.
Daniel Huws, A Repertory of Welsh Manuscripts and Sources c.800-c.1800, 3 vols (Aberystwyth: The National Library of Wales and University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, 2022), I, p. 675.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Chaloner, Thomas, of Chester
- Places:
- Chester, Cheshire