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Harley MS 2220

Record Id:

040-002048051

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002048051

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000709.0x0002d8

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 2220

Title:

Miscellaneous coats of arms

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-6v: Coats of arms (4-9 per page) of English nobility and gentry.

f. 7r: The (attributed) coats of arms of the Nine Worthies, with Guy of Warwick.

ff. 7v-9r: Coats of arms (16 per page) of ‘howses [that] have matched wyth Danvers’.

ff. 9r-11r: Coats of arms (16 per page) of some of the livery companies of London.

ff. 11r-28r: Coats of arms (16 per page) of English gentry.

ff. 28r-29v: Coats of arms (16 per page) of kings and kingdoms, including the attributed arms of Prester John, Alexander the Great, and Vortigern.

ff. 30r-34v: A fragment of an Ordinary of Arms, featuring coats of arms with chevrons (16 per page) of English families.

ff. 35r-48r: Coats of arms (4 per page) of English gentry.

ff. 49r-54v: Coats of arms (16 per page) from the time of Edward I.

ff. 55r-58v: Coats of arms (4 per page) of English families.

ff. 59r-60v: An incomplete alphabetical index of family names included in this manuscript.

Decoration:

Coats of arms and crests, drawn and tricked in brown ink throughout the manuscript.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002048051

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 2220 : Miscellaneous coats of arms

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[7818]/040-002048051

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1584

End Date:

1594

Date Range:

c 1589

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: 310 x 205 mm.

Foliation: ff. 60 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + at the end); each leaf has is mounted onto a paper guard; and has a white paper strip attached to its outer margin.

Script: 17th-century script.

Binding: British Museum in-house.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

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), p. 564.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Places:

England