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Harley MS 4749
- Record Id:
- 040-002050592
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002050592
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x00010b
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 4749
- Title:
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Tracts on baronies
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-29r: A collection of tracts on baronies, with an account of the 'controversy touching the Descent of the Dignity and Name of the Baronie of Abergaveny', and pedigrees, entitled: 'Presidents Collected out of a Number of Others and Titles of Honours Created by Writt to descend in the direct Line to the Sole Daughter and heire or to the next Cousin and heire female and their heires, and that the Issues in that direct line as well of females as Males, have enioyed the Names, Stile, Tatile and Dignities of the same. Baronies according to the antient usage and custome of the Realm Notwithstand that Caput Baronie hath been separate from the blood by Gift Sale or Conveyance to the Collaterall lines of such families 1598 - Made for Sir Thomas Fave Knight Anno 1598'; written in different hands. A neater copy of the book is Harley MS 4798, with which the manuscript is bound together.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002050592", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 4749: Tracts on baronies" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002050592 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 4749 : Tracts on baronies - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[4748]/040-002050592
- 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:
- 1598
- End Date:
- 1598
- Date Range:
- 1598
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 305 x 185 mm.
Foliation: ff. 29 (+ 5 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning).
Script: Cursive.
Binding: British Museum in-house; gold-tooled brown leather with the Harleian arms gold-stamped out the outside covers; marbled endpapers; bound together with Harley MS 4798.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Thomas Fane [Vane], knight (1598) of Kent, compiled for him in 1598: according to a title inscription on f. 1r (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 149).
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:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), p. 198.
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. 149.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- England