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Harley MS 2221

Record Id:

040-002048052

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002048052

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000709.0x0002d9

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 2221

Title:

Miscellany of English coats of arms

Scope & Content:

Contents:

f. 1r: A table of contents, with the date 1591.

ff. 2r-3v: Coats of arms (10 per page) of the English archiepiscopal and episcopal sees; with the arms of the archiepiscopal see of Dublin.

ff. 4r-6r: Coats of arms (10 per page) of English cities, boroughs, and Calais.

f. 7r: A list of abbeys whose coats of arms are not included in this manuscript; with a title: ‘William Smyth [...] The Name of certaine Abbies’; and a note: ‘To the worshippfull Mr Moran Colman.

ff. 8r-15r: Coats of arms (10 per page) of English abbeys and priories.

f. 16v: ‘Arma academiae Cantabrigiensis’; ‘Collegij Regalis’; ‘Collegij de Eton’.

ff. 17v-18r: Arma omnium Angliae (utriusque Provinciae) Episcoporum; tempore Matthaei Parkeri Cantuariensis Archiepiscopi.

ff. 19r-23v: Coats of arms of Knights of the Garter, taken from their stalls at Windsor, entitled: ‘The booke begone at Windsor of the Garter – Ordinis Garterij’.

f. 24v: A note by William Dethick: ‘This booke is marked with this Λ marke IN my bookes wherin I [? to] tryke the Arms’.

ff. 25r-28r: Coats of arms of English nobility in the time of Queen Elizabeth I; by William Smith, Rouge Dragon Pursuivant.

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
040-002048052

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 2221 : Miscellany of English coats of arms

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[2223]/040-002048052

Container:

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

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1573

End Date:

1591

Date Range:

c 1578-1591

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: 305 x 205 mm.

Foliation: ff. 28 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end).

Script: 16th-century script.

Binding: Post-1600. Gold-tooled red leather with the Harleian armorial bookplate gold-stamped on the upper and lower covers.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

Sir William Dethick (b. c. 1542, d. 1612), herald and Garter King of Arms: copied and tricked the larger part of the manuscript, according to Humfrey Wanley: ff. 1-18 in 1591; and ff. 19-24 in c. 1578 (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), pp. 130-31).

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.

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.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Places:

England