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Harley MS 2413
- Record Id:
- 040-002048244
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002048244
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000709.0x000399
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2413
- Title:
- Heraldic manual
- Scope & Content:
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A collection of texts concerning the rights and duties of royal heralds, how to hold events like tournaments and aristocratic funerals, and the precedence of nobles at state occasions. It was probably created for the use of a royal herald.
Contents:
ff. 1r-8v: Rules of precedence for dukes, marquises, barons, the blood royal, foreign dignitaries, and other ranks.
ff. 9r-10v: Order of precedence for the procession to Westminster from Whitehall during Parliament.
ff. 11r-v: Order of precedence for great officers of state according to an Act of Parliament, 1539-40.
ff. 12r-13v: Order of precedence for the nobility in 1577.
ff. 14r-16v: Rules for jousts, as set down by John Tiptoft, earl of Worcester and Constable of England, 1466.
ff. 17r-27r: Notes on banners and heraldry, with illustrations.
ff. 27v-38v: Guide to holding funerals of different ranks of peers.
f. 39r: The fees owed to royal servants upon the dubbing of new knight bachelors.
ff. 39v-40v: On the importance of banners in warfare.
ff. 41r-v: On captains and governors and their power. Latin.
ff. 42r-44r: On the offices of the kings of arms.
ff. 44v-46r: Guide to holding a funeral of a knight in London.
ff. 46v-47r: Price list of hatchments and other heraldic items.
ff. 47v-49r: Fees to heralds for participating in the funerals of knights.
ff. 49v-53r: Allowances for servants participating in Mary Queen of Scots’ funeral in 1587.
ff. 54r-55r: Order of precedence of peers formulated by Jasper Tudor, duke of Bedford (r. 1485-95).
ff. 55r-63r: Ordinances for royal heralds, 1566.
ff. 64r-68r: Philip and Mary’s Charter of Incorporation of the College of Arms, 1555. Latin.
ff. 69r-74v: Copies of letters patents granted to royal heralds concerning their privileges, 1575-76.
f. 75r: Copy of a charter, beginning imperfectly. Latin.
f. 76r: Fees to be paid to royal servants at the creation of a new earl.
ff. 77v-80r: On the duties of royal heralds.
ff. 3v, 5v, 33v, 53v, 55v, 63v, 68v, 75v, 76v, 77r, 80v.
Decoration:
Pen drawings of different ranks of peers in their peerage robes and coronets, in colours (ff. 22v-26r).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002048244", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 2413: Heraldic manual" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002048244 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 2413 : Heraldic manual - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[2414]/040-002048244
- 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:
- 1595
- End Date:
- 1605
- Date Range:
- c 1600
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Paper.
Dimensions: 195 x 150 mm (text space: 115 x 95 mm).
Foliation: ff. 80 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 2 at the end + 2 blank leaves between ff. 2 and 3, 8 blank leaves between ff. 74 and 75, and 5 blank leaves between ff. 79 and 80).
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: Post-1600. 'Harleian' binding of gold-tooled red leather.
- Custodial History:
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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), no. 2413.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)