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Harley MS 1961
- Record Id:
- 040-002047792
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002047792
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000709.0x0001d5
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1961
- Title:
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Armorial pedigree of Margaret ferch Huw ap Llywelyn ap Rhys, compiled by William Cynwal
- Scope & Content:
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Armorial pedigree of Margaret ferch Huw ap Llywelyn ap Rhys, compiled by William Cynwal.
Contents:
ff. 3r-45v: Coats of arms of Welsh nobility (1 per page).
f. 46r: A note on the book by William Cynwal.
The manuscript contains a few additions:
f. 1r: A fragment of a English legal text taken from another manuscript; written in the 16th century.
f. 2r: A blazon; added in the late 16th or early 17th century.
Decoration:
Half-page drawings of coats of arms in colours throughout. Drawings of the heads of humans and animals in ink and pencil added to ff. 46v-47r.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002047792", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 1961: Armorial pedigree of Margaret ferch Huw ap Llywelyn ap Rhys, compiled by William Cynwal" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002047792 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 1961 : Armorial pedigree of Margaret ferch Huw ap Llywelyn ap Rhys, compiled by William Cynwal - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[1963]/040-002047792
- 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:
- 1580
- End Date:
- 1580
- Date Range:
- 1580
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 140 x 85 mm.
Foliation: ff. 47 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning); each leaf has been mounted onto a paper guard.
Script: 16th-century script.
Binding: British Museum in-house; bound together with Harley MS 6122.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Wales.
Scribe:
William Cynwal, his colophon (f. 46r).
Provenance:
William Cynwal (fl. late 16th century) [perhaps the same William Kynwall who is mentioned in heraldic manuscript Harley MS 1978, and Davies Display of Herauldry (1716)], wrote the book around 1580: his ownership inscription (2x) on f. 2r: ‘William Kynmal his Book 1580’; and his name in a Welsh note on the book on f. 46r: ‘William Kynwall’ (not in Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972)).
Holme family of Chester, arms painters and antiquaries, owned the manuscript: the name of Randle Holme I (b. 1571, d. 1655) inscribed on f. 2r: ‘Randle Holme of Chester’ (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), pp. 194-95).
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), I (1808), p. 359.
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. 404.
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. 676.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- Wales