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Harley MS 2414

Record Id:

040-002048245

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002048245

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000709.0x00039a

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 2414

Title:

Pedigrees of Welsh families; Chronicle of England

Scope & Content:

This composite manuscript consists of two parts that were produced separately.

The first part (ff. 1r-68v) mainly contains Welsh pedigrees, written in Welsh, largely copied by Llewelyn Sion in the 2nd half of the 16th century.

The second part (ff. 70r-102v) contains a Chronicle of England, written in English, that was copied in the late 17th century.

Contents:

Part 1:

ff. 1r-68v: Genealogical memoranda and brief descents of Welsh families, mostly from Glamorganshire, also featuring the pedigree of King Henry VIII (f. 61r), and 'Y Marchog Crwydrad' [Welsh translation of William Goodyear's English translation of Jean de Cartigny (b. c. 1520, d. 1578), Le Voyage du Chevalier Errant] (ff. 63r-63v). .

Part 2:

ff. 70r-102v: Chronicle of England, from the reigns of the legendary Samothean Kings, the giant Albion, and Brutus, to William the Conqueror, beginning: 'Anno Mundi 1656 Samothes the sonne of Japhet the first Commander of the North part of the World'. Corresponds with the account in Holinshed's Chronicle.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002048245

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 2414 : Pedigrees of Welsh families; Chronicle of England

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[2415]/040-002048245

Container:

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

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English
Welsh

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1550

End Date:

1699

Date Range:

2nd half of the 16th century-17th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: 190-200 x 145 mm, but mounted on guards and with strips to measure 190-200 x 185 mm.

Foliation: ff. 102 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end).

Script: Cursive.

Binding: British Museum in-house; gold-tooled black half leather with the Harleian arms gold stamped on the outside covers; marbled endpapers.

Custodial History:

Origin:

Wales (Part 1); England (Part 2).

Provenance:

? William David, 17th or 18th century, may have owned the manuscript's first part: added a note on f. 24r: 'llyma lyfyr Llewelyn Sion o Langewydd, per me Gulielmu David'.

? Richard Johnson, 17th century, may have owned the manuscript's second part: his name inscribed on f. 69r: 'Richard Johnson his hand'.

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. 690.

A Catalogue of the Manuscripts Relating to Wales in the British Museum, 4 vols, Cymmrodorion record series, 4 (London: The Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1900-1922), II (1903) pp. 388-389 [no. 578].

Daniel Huws, A Repertory of Welsh Manuscripts and Scribes, 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. 683.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Jean de Cartigny, Flemish Carmelite monk and author, ? 1520-1578,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000079703737

Places:

England
Wales