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Harley MS 4040
- Record Id:
- 040-002049877
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002049877
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000807.0x000228
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 4040
- Title:
- Arms of Irish nobility
- Scope & Content:
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Heraldic book of Irish nobility probably compiled by James Terry (1660-1725), Athlone Herald, at the Jacobite court in France. Decorated with painted and gilt arms and headings. Includes blanks probably intended for narrative pedigrees.
Contents:
f. 1v: Print portrait of James Drummond, 1st titular Duke of Perth (1648-1716), Lord Chancellor of Scotland, Jacobite. Line engraving by Robert White (1645-1703) after John Riley (1646-1691), dated 1686. With the title in French.
ff. 2-5: Contents list.
f. 6: Painted arms of the Terry family with their motto ‘E Cruce Leo’.
f. 7: Painting of a figure in Roman costume in front of a naval scene, below the royal arms. Described in the contents list as the Prince of Wales in his robes of huntsman (?).
ff. 8-19: Paintings and titles probably intended as section titles. The blank folios following each title were probably intended to be completed with arms and pedigrees; they are unfoliated in the current British Library foliation. Each title folio has a painting and a heading, as follows:
- Prince of Wales (f. 8)
- Archbishop of Armagh (f. 9)
- Lord Chancellor (f. 10)
- Archbishop of Dublin (f. 11)
- Archbishop of Cashels (f. 12)
- Archbishop of Tuam (f. 13)
- Lord Treasurer (f. 14)
- A Duke. Followed by an entry for Butler, Duke of Ormond, with a narration of his pedigree (ff. 15-16).
- Marquisses (f. 18)
ff. 20-59: Earls. Only Fitzgerald has a narration of his the pedigree (f. 21).
ff. 60-109: Viscounts.
ff. 66-67 and 70: Additional documents concerning the pedigrees.
ff. 110-127: Bishops.
ff. 128-163: Barons. Includes a letter from J Harrold to Sir James Terry, dated Paris 1723, with a descent of the Calvert family.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002049877", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 4040: Arms of Irish nobility" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002049877 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 4040 : Arms of Irish nobility - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[4033]/040-002049877
- 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:
- -9999
- End Date:
- -9999
- Date Range:
- Early 18th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 460 x 320 mm.
Foliation: 163 folios.
Binding: British Library in-house rebinding 1977, in gold-tooled red leather. Former gold embossed endpapers, now discoloured green, lifted and re-inserted among endpapers.
- Custodial History:
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The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (1661-1724), 1st earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, and Edward Harley (1689-1741), 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 (1694-1755) during her lifetime and thereafter to their daughter, Margaret Cavendish Bentinck (1715-1785), 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.
Former owner: James Terry, or Tyrry (1660-1725), Athlone Herald.
- Finding Aids:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), 3 (1808), no. 4039-4040.
Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Terry, James, Athlone Herald, 1660-1725